Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Surest, a UnitedHealthcare Company, is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to play a critical role within the Surest Ontology Team. This position will focus on supporting the design, performance, and continuous improvement of Surest's Ontology and Search experience by translating complex healthcare data into actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Analyze Ontology structures to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for optimization
- Provide analytical support for Ontology changes, including upstream inputs and downstream dependencies
- Implementation of Search data enhancements
- Develop repeatable analyses to validate data integrity and configuration accuracy
- Analyze search behavior, query patterns, and user interaction data to identify opportunities to improve search relevance and accuracy
- Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for business and technical stakeholders
- Establish and maintain data quality checks for Ontology and search data
- Support documentation and standardization of analytical methodologies
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in data analysis, preferably in healthcare, insurance or digital product environments
- 5+ years of experience with data modeling concepts
- 5+ years of experience using SQL and relational databases
- 5+ years of experience with Python or R for data analysis
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience working with healthcare administrative data (e.g. claims, encounter, clinical, provider etc.)
- Demonstrated working knowledge of clinical data domains, code sets and ontologies (e.g. ICD, SNOMED, RxNorm)
- Willing and able to travel 10% +/- depending on business need
- 1+ year experience with cloud computing (AWS, Azure) and data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake
- Experience working with search platforms, search analytics, or relevance tuning
- Experience presenting research methods and findings to stakeholders
- Familiarity with taxonomy
- Proven exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a highly dynamic environment
- Proven high attention to detail
- Proven innate curiosity to learn more
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexibility to work remotely rom anywhere within the U.S.
- For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
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