Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop actionable machine learning solutions and propose recommendations and strategies to solve commercial opportunities in unique ways that return optimal value to our business


• Participate in meetings with business stakeholders, data experts, software/platform engineering, and digital product teams to scope data science use-cases and convert them into scope of work


• Be a storyteller to explain the ‘why and how’ of your data driven recommendations to cross-functional teams


• Assess internal data and processes to determine opportunities for application of advanced analytics for broad division-wide analytic usage


• Be a hands-on leader and teach by example by building prototypes using variety of predictive methods while adhering to the ML development cycle (e.g. iterative EDA, prediction specification, feature engineering and model tuning)


• Be a thought leader and coach the junior team members in the wide variety of statistical/machine learning methods to attack data science use cases


• Build, mentor, and lead a team of data scientists


• Self-drive knowledge accumulation of methods and modeling advances by reading research publications, blogs and attending presentations and webinars

Required Qualifications:

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in computer science, applied mathematics, (bio) statistics, applied statistics, economics, business, or similar quantitative fields of study


• 5+ years of hands-on experience in developing analytics with machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and/or other related modeling techniques


• 4+ years of experience using advanced data science tools such as Python, R, SQL, Spark and H2O


• 3+ years of experience managing analytical or data science resources


• 3+ years of experience wrangling large datasets with big data tools such as Hadoop, Hive and Spark


• 2+ years of experience developing and deploying analytic solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP


• Ability to travel 5% (approximately once or twice a year for onsite meetings) when business requires


• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination prior to employment to ensure compliance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with health care data


• Experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake


• UI design experience for automated and-or end-user-interactive visualizations (for example using Tableau, Power BI, R Shiny, Python Dash)


• Experience with version control (for example Git Version Control system)


• Experience working in an agile environment


• Experience with omni-channel analytics and consumer interaction channel optimization