Principal Data Scientist - Network Analytics & AI Enablement

About this role

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. We are hiring multiple Principal Data Scientists across our Network Analytics and AI Enablement teams. The aim of these roles is to apply advanced analytics to lower the cost of healthcare for our members

These are senior, hands-on individual contributor roles with clear expectations for technical leadership. You will lead complex projects end-to-end, framing the problem, developing approaches, coding solutions, and partnering with engineering and business teams to implement them in production and operations. As we have multiple openings across two teams, candidates do not need to have experience in every responsibility listed below

We are open to candidates with depth in some areas and interest in expanding into others. 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: Code daily to build and deploy impactful data science solutions, taking full ownership of projects, delivering measurable improvements in healthcare cost, quality, and access Lead by example as a hands-on technical expert, writing production-grade code and contributing directly to the development of big data systems, pipelines, tools and models Build LLM-assisted w

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