Principal Architect

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Primary Responsibilities:

As a lead Enterprise Architect, you will ensure that we are building modern enterprise information systems that are truly aligned with the business by engaging in the following activities:

• For any given product idea, quickly absorb the business drivers, and assess the IT assets needed to create the capabilities required to fulfill the business vision and requirements
  
• Understand the Enterprise Architecture roadmap, influence to Modernize architectures
  
• Research, identify, and recommend Modern Architecture patterns for solving business problems
  
• Rapidly navigate between high-level business vision, through Product/Capability/System level requirements, identify architecturally significant changes to provide Solution specification
  
• Identify candidate solution approaches, and model cost-benefit tradeoffs of each
  
• Rapidly develop a Conceptual model of the chosen solution, and document using a combination of text, diagrams and human interactions
  
• Collaborate to enable team-business, development, operations-to align to conceptual models
  
• Create the solution documentation (Agile Solution Intent and Software Models) that will provide both a basis for project sign-off by all stakeholders, and the foundation Product Teams
  
• Cultivate role as trusted advisor of all parties (business, RTE and Delivery)
  
• Gracefully transition solution leadership to the Product/Delivery team, once the solution is clearly understood, documented and under development
  
• Leverage your experience, versatility and quick learning to jump in when and where needed to help the project through sticking points
  
• Provide Governance and Oversight to guide implementation with enterprise architecture direction
  
• Guide and mentor the work of other Enterprise and Product architects
  
• Seek opportunities to create efficiencies or advance architectural agenda, by identifying reusable assets
  
• Take leadership role in delivering and driving solution strategy at scale
• 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:

• 13+ years of experience with 10 + years of IT Software development experience 
  
• 5+ years leading business technology strategy and or enterprise architecture initiatives
  
• 5+ years of experience architecting/designing scalable systems
  
• 5+ years of experience in collaborating with Business/Product Managers to understand business needs to aligning architecture/solution options with business needs
  
• 5+ years of experience with applying and harvesting software patterns
  
• 5+ years of experience with delivering Agile Software Architectures & software models
  
• 3+ years creating business-enabling technology roadmaps
  
• 3+ years working in a Global Team working virtually across time zones
  
• Demonstrated experience in Enterprise Architecture practices like Business, Information, Integration & Technology architecture disciplines
  
• Demonstrated experience in Architecture Governance, Technology Lifecycle and Architecture Review Board
  
• Demonstrated experience in implementing modern architecture patterns – Microservices, Event Driven Messaging, Public Coud, Gen AI, AI/ML and NoSQL Technologies 
• Proven ability to drive team performance both in a direct and matrixed environment

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.