Senior 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.

An individual in the Architecture job family is a strategic resource for UnitedHealth Group. This individual could be involved across many aspects of architecture, design, build, engineering and implementation of technical solutions and capabilities providing technical leadership. Responsible for communicating overall architecture vision, technical strategies, and trade-offs across various levels in the organization to gain buy-in. Will provide recommendations and technical guidance to improve performance, reliability, and reusability within the constraints of budget, resource and business dependencies. In base and mid-level roles, engages across teams in a capacity that ranges from assisting on in-flight initiatives, up to technical briefings and demonstrations of new technologies across the organization. In senior level roles, leads business solutions, capabilities, and is a solid influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the subject matter expert on Individual Health Insurance line of business, senior architecture, and many other technologies
• Serve as solution architect for broad areas in cloud & on-premise and data for new application developments or migration of existing infrastructure and applications to Cloud
• Partner with stakeholders to understand the aspirational state of the system, design architecture, present to the partners, seek feedback/approval
• Define and execute target architecture roadmap aligned with business objectives (like Agency of the future, Cloud migration etc.)
• Define and enforce architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices, lead design reviews, technical assessments, and solution approvals, ensure compliance with security, privacy (PHI/PII), and regulatory standards
• Mentor senior engineers, leads, and architects across the teams, build solid architecture capability, drive a culture of engineering excellence and innovation
• Leverage AI to improve productivity & faster delivery lifecycle. Design AI solution to reduction operational cost and improve revenue/sales
• Reviews the work of others
• Develops innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
• Serves as a leader/ mentor
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise application development and architecture
• 5+ years of solid legacy modernization, cloud data modernization experience
• Proven experience as a Senior/Lead Architect in large-scale organizations
• Solid expertise in: Health insurance business (Individual insurance business), Cloud architecture
• Deep understanding of scalability, performance, and resilience design
• AI-First mindset. Solid familiarity with AI tools and how to leverage them to generate efficiency
• Deep understanding of Cloud based security solutions and familiar with Healthcare specific regulatory specifications like HIPPA, PHI, PII
• Familiarity with sales, eligibility, billing, claims process

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.