Director of Data Science

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise data science strategy: Own and drive the technical strategy for applied machine learning, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and advanced analytics across multiple domains and healthcare use cases • Lead development of advanced ML, GenAI, and agentic solutions: Provide hands-on technical direction for the design, development, and deployment of machine learning, deep learning, time-series, survival analysis, large language model (LLM), and agent-based AI systems in production environments • Establish modeling standards and best practices: Define and standardize modeling frameworks, feature engineering approaches, prompt and context engineering practices, evaluation methodologies, and validation standards across…