Principal Architect – Optum Serve – Remote

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here’s your opportunity. We’re going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

 

Optum Serve helps federal agencies and communities across the nation tackle some of the biggest challenges in health care. Drawing on our experience as a leading, nationwide health services and innovation company, Optum Serve gives federal agencies what they need to make health care more efficient and effective. It is an immense honor and privilege to help improve the health and well-being of those we collectively serve.

 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.   

 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Principal Architects partner closely with CTO organization leadership, Technical Architects, and Enterprise Architects on product delivery and technology selection
• Review RFP documents to understand scope of work and customer needs to develop an overarching solution to be proposed as part of the solicitation response
• Partner with the business and CTO organization to review and write solicitation responses
• Develop technical approach and proposal plans, including scheduling of tasks, processes, and identifying critical resources, to turn the solution into a successful proposal
• Develop and write technical responses for winning proposals (and possibly RFI) responses
• Balance solution architecture/design against price-to-win scenarios, determining optimum solutions from both technology fit and overall cost
• Provide recommendations to business unit senior leadership on capital technology investments and strategic technology roadmap
• Guide the transition to future state architecture
• Drive technology acceleration
• Foster innovation to achieve business outcomes
• Maintain the IT architecture and keep up with the latest technology trends to promote continuous technology improvement in line with business strategies
• Serve as IT architect across the pursuit lifecycle and within an integrated growth team, including proposal, capture and business development activities
• Defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals, developing solutions architectures, and providing technical leadership for proposals and strategic pursuits 
  as well as creating content and contributing to the writing and assessments of proposals
• Assess market level technology trends as well as capabilities of complementary solutions enabling larger scale solution offerings
• Support marketing materials development such as whitepapers, slicks, trifolds, etc.
• Work with the CTO office and develop IT-based solutions consisting of contextual, conceptual, and logical architectures using standards-based, rigorous methodologies and practices
• Communicate solutions with, management, and teaming partners, including presentations and white papers
• Support development of federal technical delivery methodology based on industry standard methodologies and frameworks
• Support the adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation

 

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of architectural solutioning experience in legacy and modern software development lifecycle and services delivery
• 4+ years developing and/or architecting solutions for federal clients, either for the Department of Defense or Department of Veterans Affairs
• 3+ years engaging directly in responding to technical Request For Proposals (RFPs)
• Experience defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals and strategic pursuits, developing solutions architectures and providing analysis of alternatives
• Demonstrated expertise in driving both the Business and IT strategies to cohesively propel each other at organizational, national, and/or global scale
• Proven excellent solution architecture expertise in IT and Cloud Infrastructure and application modernization and migration techniques
• Willing or ability to up to 10% travel 
• United States Citizenship
• Ability to obtain favorable adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip Form SF86 

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of experience in related fields
• Proven ability to produce results within a collaborative environment

  

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy  

 

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, or Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $122,100 to $234,700 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

  

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

As a requirement of UnitedHealth Group’s contract with the Department of Defense, this position requires U.S. citizenship and proof of favorable adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip Form SF86, (the National Agency Check Legal and Credit or NACLC). Successful completion of the NACLC process is a requirement for continued employment in this role. NACLC processing will be initiated by our TRICARE Security Officer post-offer and can take 3-6 months for a final decision communication from the Department of Defense. Candidates will be allowed to begin employment with UnitedHealth Group in this role based on an interim clearance, and final results will be communicated as they are received. Failure to obtain final NACLC approval will result in termination from this role. 

 

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: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

 

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment