IT Systems Scheduling Analyst - (AutoSys 4.5) - Plymouth, MN

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise.  Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.   Primary Responsibilities:Responsible for batch scheduling in a distributed environment Participate in or lead job conversion efforts Develop standards for Production Control Communicate with multiple departments to smoothly integrate new applications into production Control tool sets. Guide application teams through established processes to maintain Production Control standards Interpret business requirements and engage business IT customers with implementation of Production Control best practices, batch lifecycle standards, and schedule deployment processes Assist in streamlining legacy job scheduling processes by identifying opportunities and adopting new tools or process Create and maintain process documentation and standards Investigate root cause analysis of batch scheduling dependencies across disparate groups Qualifications:Relevant Bachelors degree or equivalent experience Two to three years demonstrated expertise in batch scheduling in a distributed environment, preferably AutoSys 4.5 Two to three years experience with a strong business process, analysis and problem diagnosis background. Working knowledge or exposure to varying development life cycles, release management, change management and operational maintenance practices General knowledge of distributed systems — Unix and Wintel Excellent verbal and written communication skills Excellent people and team work skills Unix and basic shell scripting capabilities a plus Presentation ability a plusDiversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace.  Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.