Advisory Services Senior Consultant – Platform

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.

A Cloud Solution Architect plays a crucial role in designing, managing, and monitoring cloud-based systems for businesses. Here are some key responsibilities and skills typically associated with this role:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the creation and evolution of a consolidated strategic architecture roadmap for healthcare software platform on Cloud
• Design and deploy dynamically scalable and highly available services on cloud platforms
• Develop and coordinate cloud architecture and drive cloud strategy at the organizational level
• Write and review design documents explaining overall architecture, framework and high level design of the application
• Create, understand and validate Design and estimate LOEs for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Extensive experience working on Cloud Migration, Cloud-native architecture, micro-services, Kubernetes, Serverless/function, event driven architecture and implementation of DevSecOps
• Work closely with IT security to monitor the company’s cloud privacy and respond to technical issues promptly
• Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques, including bulk application transfers into the cloud
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software to recommend improvements

• Develop strategies and control mechanisms for cloud cost optimization

   

• Ability to identify and integrate well over all integration points in context of a project as well as other applications in the environment
• Implement required systems, solutions, and processes needed to manage cloud cost, monitoring, scalability, and redundancy are accounted for and continuously validated
• Ensure all cloud solutions adhere to security and compliance best practices
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Data Platform, DevOps, and Integration Teams to ensure cloud adoption follows standard best practices
• Coding 
• Define guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
• 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 regard 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:

• 12+ years of experience in hands-on software engineering, including the complete software development life cycle
• 7+ years of experience and expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• 5+ years of experience in an architect/highly technical leader role
• 5+ years of experience in delivering solution architecture designs in a complex, dynamic, highly integrated enterprise environment
• 5+ years of experience in designing solutions based on modern cloud-native architectures (micro-service, streaming, containers, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience in packaging and containerizing (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience working with technology stack leveraging React, Angular, NodeJS, Java, Springboot, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Postgres, Rest & GraphQL APIs
• Highly experienced in consultative skills to assess/surface, analyze, and define underlying requirements which are not immediately clear
• Well Versed with Cloud infrastructure automation, DevSecOps and Site reliability Engineering
• Experience in Agile methodologies, grooming Features and Stories, and collaborating with Strategic Product Managers, Strategic Technical Leaders, Technical Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, and Enterprise Architects
• Understanding of cloud security principles and best practices

• Ability to stay updated with emerging technologies and trends in cloud computing

   

• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proven excellent communication skills to collaborate with IT and development teams

   

• Good understanding of best practices to enable application security, scalability, HA/DR, Application Monitoring across the technology stack

   

Preferred Qualification: 

• 10+ years of experience in writing full tech-stack, platform-level code in React/Java/JBOSS/Spring Boot or .NET

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.