Principal Architect

Optum is a global organisation that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

Todays’ RCM is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem — payers, providers, and patients.

As a Principal Architect, you will be directly impacting the full supply chain of healthcare, making more seamless and frictionless, and providing a better consumer experience that touches all aspects of healthcare. The Senior Principal Architect is essential for ensuring contributing to though leadership/strategy, establishing and maintaining technical roadmaps and representing all architecture disciplines for Optum businesses.  Working alongside the Optum businesses, you’ll have the opportunity to drive a transformative change into the largest healthcare company in the nation, with a focus on digitization and retail enabling customer experiences to keep pace with a challenging industry. In addition to having impact on a great team, you’ll also discover the career opportunities you’d expect from an Industry Leader. 
  
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
 
Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Architect:

•    Contribute to the creation and evolution of a consolidated strategic architecture roadmap 
•    Define technical details of solutions align with enterprise technology standards and support modernization agendas 
•    Future proof solution designs by ensuring the strategic architecture accommodates transitional needs 
•    Influence leadership on key decisions as it relates to the technology strategy as well as specific line of business plan 
•    Reviews of existing systems and ongoing engineering to ensure consistent alignment with the strategic architecture 
•    Communicate architectural concepts and patterns into clear, actionable engineering direction 
•    Provide architecture thought leadership when selecting tools and setting standards 
•    Create and foster an environment of innovation including remove roadblocks and enable strategic risk taking; advocate and drive change management, enable and model adoption of innovative behaviors and practices 
•    Build productive cross business relationships with both technical and business partners to deliver true enterprise level solutions which meet of stakeholder requirements 
 
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or similar technical discipline  
•    Demonstrated expertise in delivering solution architecture designs in a complex enterprise environment 
•    Extensive experience in hands-on software engineering 
•    Demonstrated understanding and ability to design solutions based on modern cloud-native architectures (micro-service, streaming, etc.) 
•    Knowledge and usage of enterprise architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman 
•    Knowledge and experience in data management capabilities such as quality and governance 
 
Preferred Qualifications:

•    Master’s degree in computer science or similar technical discipline 
•    Demonstrated experience in public cloud solution architecture  
•    Azure and/or AWS solution architecture certifications 
•    Healthcare domain experience 

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

 All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.