Senior Architect – Data

Optum is a global organization 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing robust and scalable data solutions meeting both functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and best practices
• Maintain awareness of Rx patterns and stay connected with the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to align with enterprise updates and initiatives
• Identify emerging trends and assess their applicability to the pillar’s technology landscape
• Create comprehensive architectural designs spanning data management, application services, network infrastructure, and security protocols
• Develop blueprints for various levels/phases of IT infrastructure
• Represent the team in the forum of architectural discussions
• Be able to lead and guide a team on developing solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT systems to solve complex business solutions
• Must work collaboratively across diverse groups of business and technical stakeholders
• Develop the architecture that is supported by Azure ecosystem and transient phases of migration from On Prem systems, in a cost-effective way
• Conduct code reviews and help team debug any issues they might encounter
• Identify potential risks related to IT infrastructure and develop strategies to mitigate those risks
• Plan for disaster recovery, data breach prevention, and system reliability
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 14+ years of overall Data Engineering work experience, along with 5+ years of experience on Solution Architecture for Data Platforms using Azure public cloud and technologies like Azure
• Databricks (using PySpark/Scala) / Azure Datafactory architecture and orchestration
• Experience of working on Streaming technologies such as Azure EventHub/Kafka
• Experience of working on Real Time data ingestion
• Experience of providing reporting and analytics solutions
• Experience of designing Data Schemas/Data Structures that incorporate performance tuning
• Solid hands-on experience on Data warehousing
• Experience of working on Java solutions would be good to have
• Knowledge of architectural patterns using scalable ETL frameworks
• Knowledge of stored procedures and SQL.
• Good understanding of the overall Azure Ecosystem – Azure Storage, Cosmos, Snowflake, Redis, App Insights, and Azure Functions etc.
• Good understanding of Development processes and tools – Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub
• Proven solid interpersonal skills

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.