Senior Data Scientist - Remote Healthcare Analytics

UnitedHealth Group; Las Vegas (NV); Remote; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

401k matching

Equity stock purchase plan

Job summary

Optum Technology within UnitedHealth Group is recruiting a Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy predictive models and ML solutions in healthcare. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate strategic goals into scalable analytics using modern cloud platforms and data science tools.

You’ll contribute to building and deploying production-grade models, interpreting results for stakeholders, and advancing health equity through data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in data science, predictive modeling, or machine learning.
• 3+ years of programming experience using Python or R for statistical analysis and machine learning.
• 3+ years of experience writing complex SQL queries and extracting data from relational or distributed databases.
• 2+ years of experience deploying ML models into production environments.
• 2+ years of experience with ML libraries/frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost).
• 1+ years of experience communicating analytical findings to business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy predictive models and ML algorithms for healthcare challenges.
• Query, clean, and analyze large volumes of data across enterprise data stores.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to translate requirements into data science solutions.
• Review work and provide technical feedback and mentorship to peers.
• Establish best practices for data science workflows, model validation, and governance.
• Identify high-impact opportunities for advanced analytics in business contexts.
• Design validation, performance tracking, and monitoring for models in production.
• Present complex findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Data science

Python

SQL

ML deployment

Stakeholder communication

NLP/LLMs

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science or related

Tools

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Spark

Databricks

Hadoop

Docker

Job description

Optum Technology within UnitedHealth Group is recruiting a Senior Data Scientist to design, develop, and deploy predictive models and ML solutions in healthcare. You will work with cross-functional teams to translate strategic goals into scalable analytics using modern cloud platforms and data science tools.

You’ll contribute to building and deploying production-grade models, interpreting results for stakeholders, and advancing health equity through data-driven insights.