Optum is the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group and one of the largest healthcare organisations in the world by revenue and by workforce. It op... See Optum open jobs and get referred by a verified employee on RefOpen.
Optum is the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group and one of the largest healthcare organisations in the world by revenue and by workforce. It operates across three connected businesses: delivering care directly through physician groups, clinics and home based services; managing pharmacy benefits and dispensing prescriptions; and supplying the data, analytics and technology that health systems, insurers, employers and governments use to run and pay for care.
The Optum brand was created in 2011 to bring together several health services businesses that UnitedHealth Group had built or acquired. It is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Counting all three divisions, Optum employs well over 200,000 people, including a very large workforce in India, where centres in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram and Noida support technology development, analytics and operations for the global business.
Optum Health delivers care through employed and affiliated clinicians, making it one of the largest employers of physicians in the United States, with a strong emphasis on value based arrangements where payment is tied to outcomes rather than volume of procedures. Optum Rx manages pharmacy benefits, negotiating with manufacturers and dispensing through retail, mail and specialty channels. Optum Insight supplies software, data and services covering revenue cycle management, claims processing, clinical decision support, population health analytics and interoperability between systems.
Technology work at Optum is shaped by the scale and sensitivity of healthcare data. Engineers deal with very large claims and clinical datasets, strict privacy and security obligations under health information regulations, interoperability standards for exchanging clinical records, and systems where errors have consequences for patient care and payment. The organisation has invested substantially in cloud migration, in machine learning applied to clinical risk and operational efficiency, and more recently in applying generative artificial intelligence to clinical documentation and administrative workload.
For candidates, Optum offers technology careers inside healthcare rather than in a pure software company, with the domain learning that entails. Roles span software and platform engineering, data engineering and data science, cloud and site reliability, cybersecurity, product management, actuarial and clinical analytics, and a broad range of operations and clinical positions.
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Optum operates in health services and healthcare technology, is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States, employs around 10,001+ people. 7 Optum roles have been posted on RefOpen in the last 30 days.
Recent Optum openings include AI Or ML Engineer, Claims Representative, Clinical Investigator, Collections Representative and Senior Employee Relations Analyst. A referral matters most for roles like these, where the applicant pool is large and a recruiter decides in seconds whether to open your resume. Most of these roles are based in Hyderabad, Chennai.
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