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.

The Cloud Migration and Modernization Engineering (CMME) team is seeking an experienced, lead-level, cloud solution architect with a demonstrated ability to evaluate, solution, estimate, implement and document cloud centric application architectures and deployment methodologies.

The candidate must be able to advise application and data migration efforts and directly contribute to the design and implementation of varied application solutions, IaC implementation, and operational capabilities.  Our team solutions for and operates across Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud providers, however, this position will be heavily Azure leaning.

Team members in this role must understand development and deployment workflows and be capable of providing appropriate and actionable guidance pertinent to re-factoring applications towards more cloud optimal architectures and cloud-oriented best-practices.

Individuals in this role must have the ability to lead technical solutioning engagements, mentor team members, and work in collaboration with other teams to drive application architecture design, ensure compliance with Optum cloud standards and generally assist in cloud migration and modernization efforts.

Primary Responsibility:

• 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:

• Baseline Skills / Experience:
  • Azure Certification (Associate+ level, verifiable)
  • Azure - 5+ years solutioning and deploying applications in Azure cloud
  • Lead Experience - 3+ years in a role demonstrating ability to own and drive cloud deliverables with minimal technical guidance
  • Experience solutioning for both Linux and Windows oriented applications
  • Deep knowledge of Azure services and cloud architecture best practices
  • Azure networking
  • Azure function apps (serverless architectures)
  • Azure Container Apps / AKS (containerized architectures)
  • Azure databases and data migration capabilities
  • Azure data streaming/messaging services
  • Azure security and IAM
  • Azure HA and DR practices
  • Azure cost estimation and cost optimization
• Networking (solid understanding of general and cloud virtual networking)
• CI/CD automation using GitHub / GitHub Actions
• IaC with Terraform
• AI Experience:
  • Foundational AI literacy (understanding of fundamental AI/ML concepts)
  • Demonstrable experience leveraging AI enabled tooling to improve productivity
  • Completed AI related training (e.g., fundamental concepts, prompting, etc.)
  • Demonstrated commitment to personal AI skill development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Skills:
  • Multi-Cloud Experience with alternative cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
  • Kubernetes
  • Databricks pipelines
  • Kafka
  • Python (GoLang is also nice to have)
  • MLOps / AIOps
  • Agentic AI solution development

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.