Data Analyst 2

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.
As a Data Analyst 2, you'll play a key role in transforming complex data into meaningful insights that support informed decision making across the organization. You'll work with large, multi source datasets and apply analytical and business intelligence practices to deliver clear, accurate, and impactful insights that drive both operational and strategic outcomes.
In this role, you'll partner closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs, translate functional requirements into structured data solutions, and deliver high quality reporting and visualization. You'll be responsible for developing and maintaining dashboards, reports, and analytical outputs that help identify trends, patterns, and opportunities while ensuring data quality and reliability.
The role combines technical expertise with solid communication skills, requiring you to interpret data in context and present insights in a clear and consumable way. Using business intelligence and data visualization tools, query languages, and analytical platforms, you'll help ensure insights are relevant, actionable, and aligned with business objectives.
This is an opportunity to contribute to a growing analytics capability, influence decision making through data, and work in a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement and delivering value through insight.
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:

• Translate business and functional requirements into actionable analytics, reports, and dashboards that support operational and strategic decision-making
• Partner with business and operational stakeholders to understand data needs, clarify requirements, and interpret insights in the proper business context
• Design, develop, and maintain data models, queries, and transformation logic to enable accurate and scalable reporting solutions
• Perform moderately complex data analysis to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and performance drivers across large and diverse datasets
• Develop and deliver standardized and ad-hoc reporting, analytical summaries, and decision-support artefacts
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and quality through validation processes and ongoing data quality checks
• Act as a trusted analytics and reporting resource, providing subject-matter guidance on business intelligence tools and best practices

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:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or reporting roles, working with structured data in enterprise environments
• Proven hands-on experience with business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• Proven ability to translate business requirements and ambiguous questions into clear analytical approaches and solutions
• Demonstrated solid communication skills, with the ability to present insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholder
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal guidance, managing multiple analytical deliverables and deadlines
• Proven ability to query, extract, and combine data from multiple sources; including relational databases (using SQL) and structured files (e.g., CSV, Excel) to support analysis, reporting, and dashboard development

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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.