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Our Operations in Ireland

JOIN US AT THE START OF A NEW ERA IN HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE

What if you could go to work every day knowing that you were helping to make the world a better place? We do. And that “we” covers a lot of ground. At Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’ve invested in building a global team of more than 110,000 people who are helping to shape healthcare in countries around the world. With an emphasis on using data, technology, people and actions to better the way healthcare works, we’re right in the middle of a dynamic, rapidly changing healthcare industry; serving the interests of those who provide care, those who pay for it and, most important, those who need it. Now, building on years of experience with our Irish teams in Letterkenny, we continue to expand our new Dublin operations. We’re tapping into strong local talent pool and expertise for data and technology driven solutions.That’s where you come in.

Join us and your contributions will help our customers as they drive transformation in areas such as advancing the quality of care, empowering consumers and modernizing infrastructure throughout the system. Bring your sense of purpose, imagination, and desire to help drive change. We’ll provide you with opportunities that are both unique and abundant.

Let’s do this. Together.

Driving change and improving lives is at the core of Optum. Our strength as a business involves finding new and impactful solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and help revolutionise the way healthcare works. Can you imagine how much you’ll contribute? We can. And that’s why we’re encouraging your development.

As you take on new challenges, develop new skills, make a powerful contribution to Optum and UnitedHealth Group, you’ll discover that this is an opportunity to do your life’s best work.SM

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Payment Integrity

HELP THE MOST COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD REALLY GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.

Opportunities in Payment Integrity. All over the world, Optum employees contribute to our products and services for health systems and health plans by providing expertise in payment integrity.

We’re out to achieve higher levels of accuracy and reduce costs. We’ve found that organisations have saved hundreds of billions of Euros through this investment in technology and analytical systems. The work we do has impact in three key areas:

We help identify and recover inappropriate claim payments and overpayments

Simplify and reduce the administrative cost of the payment cycle

Avoid and prevent inappropriate claim payments and overpayments

Learn more about careers in Payment Integrity

Clinical

HELPING PEOPLE TO LIVE HEALTHIER LIVES HAS NEVER BEEN MORE REWARDING

Unique Clinical opportunities for RNs. The opportunities that we provide for RNs will very likely involve a dramatically different work day than you’ve experienced to date. You’ll be working outside of a hospital or clinical office setting while having a direct impact on the management of our members’ healthcare treatment and follow up. You’ll engage with members and their providers to provide assistance on complex decisions across the continuum of care. That includes assessment, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation activities by phone and online correspondence. You can count on training, support, collaboration and inspiration from co-workers the world over.

Learn more about careers in Nursing.

Technology

SHAPE THE TECHNOLOGY THAT’S RE-SHAPING HEALTHCARE.

Opportunities in Technology. Join more than 20,000 technology professionals including hundreds here in Ireland to create systems that have impact in every corner of the healthcare marketplace. From software engineering teams that drive new commercial products and services, to analytics platforms that enhance financial and payment processes, to innovations in how drugs and therapies interact to improve health outcomes, our technology teams are focused on solving problems.

Create technology solutions we can introduce into the health system

Ensure those solutions contribute to future knowledge as well as immediate results

Drive change through thought leadership, imagination and sheer desire to make a difference

Learn more about careers in Technology.

Data Science

JOIN US AT THE START OF A NEW ERA IN HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE.

Opportunities in Data Science.Having volumes of data is the right starting point when the goal is important new strategic business intelligence. But it’s only a start. Because now, the real work begins. Think of these opportunities with Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, as an invitation to unleash your analytic skills on the kind of data that arises from more than 500 billion annual transactional events. Optum is investing more than $2.5 billion in our technology resources every year. Why? To arrive at new and better decisions with greater accuracy. That’s big data with big purpose.

Help create tools that reduce fraud and errors in processing healthcare payments.

Use sampling methodology and data analysis that leads to predictive models and ability to document process impact and results.

Assist with on-going tracking and performance monitoring of analytic applications and recommend improvements to methods or algorithms that help uncover new findings and new information.

Learn more about careers in Data Science.