Cloud 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.

The individual will be leading the efforts of building foundational services on Azure and migrate products and platform comprising various tech stacks on Azure. The individual is expected to have hands-on experience with architecting, designing, and implementing cloud-based systems and platforms. This position requires sense of ownership and demands very hands-on individual who will be expected to build production grade solutions, PoCs, write frameworks and automation patterns, and contribute in building user stories. This position will also be guiding the team from technology standpoint. This candidate will also be expected to use AI/ML to reduce cost and increase overall efficiency and productivity.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Candidate must be hands on and be ready to contribute right from architecture building to writing code
• Be responsible for large and complex components, while influencing overall product architecture and patterns
• Learn new technology fast and implement required PoCs and prototypes hands on to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
• Take care of various NFRs such as extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience
• Possess/acquire solid troubleshooting skills and be interested in performing troubleshooting of issues in different desperate technologies and environments
• Actively mentors team members, through code reviews, brown bags, tech talks, design discussions
• Actively develops threat prevention mechanisms and drives security best practice adherence in code reviews
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of full lifecycle development experience in open source, microservices, cloud based technologies
• Total experience of 10+ years of experience working in industry
• 3+ year of working experience with Azure cloud platform, DevOps
• 3+ years of working experience with Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Python, Go, Angular/NodeJS
• 3+ years of experience working on Azure
• 10+ year of working experience with Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Web Services, Javascript, Databases, Messaging (Kafka, Rebbit MQ), Dockers, Kubernetes
• Solid experience of architecting, building, integrating cloud based high throughput products & platforms
• Experience with no SQL databases (Cassandra/Mongo/Couch)
• Experience building cloud based large scale systems architecture applying microservices concepts
• Experience in architecting Zero trust solutions and Security patterns on cloud
• Experience in leading cloud architecture, system design and external system integrations on cloud-based solutions / platforms, provide guidance to the entire team
• Experience building infrastructure as code solutions
• Experience with certificate management, Identity management solutions, key rotations and their automation
• Has seen multiple system being designed and built end to end using java stack
• Proficiency in applying object-oriented principles and recommended design patterns to create robust and scalable system designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure Cloud Certification
• Experience from Healthcare domain or Academy for Health Care Management Certification 

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.

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