Optum | Hiring | Business Analyst – Remote | Eden Prairie, MN | United States | BigDataKB.com | 12 Oct 2022

Careers at Solutran, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. We create direct spending solutions driven by our extensive financial tech experience to help those we serve be healthier, happier and more productive. Our platform helps members manage their health plans, supplemental benefits and rewards all in one place. You’ll have the opportunity to make it easier for consumers to manage their own health by making healthier products more affordable and their purchases streamlined. If you are a driven individual that thrives in fast-paced environments, values diversity and wants meaningful work that impacts the lives of many, then this is the team for you. Being part of an organization that makes healthier living easier for others leads to your life’s best work.(sm)

This role requires work hours in Central time

As a Business Analyst, you’re expected and empowered to be your best, to grow and develop your skills. Be prepared to move quickly, to engage proactively, and to think strategically. As a business analyst, you will play a key role in working with our Product Managers and business stakeholders to build and implement products to support our strategic goals. The successful candidate is one who can effectively elicit business requirements and translate them into stories for development, seeing them through the development lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for documenting requirements, process flows, and other artifacts related to the product.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders and users to synthesize, articulate, and document business and system requirements
• Defines and documents business requirements, translates business requirements to technical/engineering specifications, acceptance criteria, user experience requirements and system validation while considering the complete technical and non-technical solution. Technical specifications are utilized by Engineering/IT in the final technical design and eventual product build/acquisition or integration
• Understands and considers both the business and the technical needs to ensure quality digital products and related operational workflows to meet/exceed the desired business objectives
• Able to perform cost, benefit and risk analysis associated with the proposed product/services and recommend alternatives for solutions throughout the product life cycle
• May assist product and operations leaders to coordinate deployment of deliverables (varies by product). Provides input for development of other product documents, project charters and plans, work assignments, deliverable target dates, and other aspects of assigned work
• Applies agile software engineering methodologies and discipline throughout the product and project lifecycle based on assignment
• Researches, analyzes, and validates complete and accurate business and systems requirements. Establishes scope boundaries for basic and routine products and technical requirements with accuracy and clarity
• Assesses and defines problems through root cause analysis and proactively brings solutions to the table
• Understands and helps define product implementation change management requirements

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3+ years experience in a business and/or product analyst role
• Experience designing and documenting user flows, workflows, and business requirements to support application development
• Extensive experience Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Experience translating business and technical requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant technical or business certifications
• Experience working in Agile based methodology (SCRUM, Kanban)
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to assess priorities and influence roadmaps
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or like data visualization and analytics tools
• Experience in healthcare

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.(sm)

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $66,100 to $118,300. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $72,800 to $129,900. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.