Principal Data Analyst - BI & Reporting

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the role:

The Principal Data Analyst - BI & Reporting will lead reporting infrastructure, dashboard development, data visualization, and business intelligence capabilities supporting the Optum Health Performance Management function. This role is responsible for transforming analytical outputs into scalable, governance-ready reporting solutions and ensuring stakeholders have access to timely, accurate, and actionable information.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise dashboards and business intelligence solutions

Build and support executive reporting, scorecards, and management reporting frameworks

Develop and maintain reporting pipelines and automated reporting processes

Translate business and analytical requirements into scalable reporting solutions

Build and maintain provider, market, operational, and executive reporting dashboards

Develop data models, reporting structures, and visualization frameworks that support business objectives

Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and data quality across all reporting products

Build and maintain automated data refresh and reporting processes

Support governance reporting requirements and executive performance reporting

Develop reporting infrastructure that supports scalable and repeatable analytics delivery

Collaborate with analytics, technology, and data engineering teams to deliver enterprise reporting solutions

Support reporting modernization initiatives and transition manual processes to automated reporting

Manage reporting schedules and ensure timely delivery of reporting outputs

Maintain documentation, reporting standards, and data lineage

Serve as a key technical partner for business intelligence and reporting requirements

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

Proven extensive experience in Business Intelligence, reporting, analytics, or data visualization

Demonstrated advanced proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent business intelligence platforms

Demonstrated solid SQL and data querying capabilities

Proven experience developing dashboards and executive reporting solutions

Proven experience working with large and complex datasets and reporting environments

Proven experience translating business requirements into reporting and visualization solutions

Demonstrated solid stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Proven experience developing automated reporting and business intelligence solutions

Proven experience supporting performance measurement and operational reporting initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven experience in healthcare analytics

Proven experience supporting enterprise performance management or reporting organizations

Demonstrated knowledge of reporting architecture, data pipelines, and reporting infrastructure

Proven experience with executive-level reporting and governance reporting

Proven experience working within complex, matrixed organizations

Proven experience supporting operational, financial, and performance management reporting

Proven experience with data modeling, reporting automation, and business intelligence platform administration

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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