Great outcomes are the result of strong purpose, conviction and pride - pride in your ability and your product. UnitedHealth Group offers a portfolio of products that are greatly improving the life of others. Bring along your passion and do your life's best work.(sm)

Optum is the industry leader delivering health services dedicated to one goal: making the health system work better for everyone. For those who need care, provide care and pay for care, we deliver integrated, intelligent solutions designed to modernize the health system and improve the health of individuals and populations. We are investing significantly in new capabilities to design, develop and deliver better solutions for these constituents.  We are seeking people with proven experience conceptualizing, defining and delivering solutions that enable data science teams to build and scale Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence models that will power these solutions.

This position will be part of a team developing the machine learning capability management for a subset of our automation focus areas across OptumInsight to deliver improved efficiency and effectiveness.  A great candidate will partner with business (P&L) leaders to define/design industry leading solutions, and ensure alignment with business and product plans (e.g., capital/funding commitments, capabilities, functional impacts, cross functional roles).

This is a great opportunity for someone who has been a Software Product Manager, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer for analytics products, built using modern software best practices and deployed and operated in a production environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work alongside other data scientists, engineers, and project managers to design and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modeling, model deployment, performance tracking and documentation
• Improve and extend the analytic methods in our products
• Conduct hands-on data analysis and predictive analytics on large datasets
• Effectively communicate complex technical results to business partners
• Support and drive analytic efforts around machine learning and innovation
• Work with a great deal of autonomy to find solutions to complex problems
• Coach and mentor junior data scientists

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.