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.    

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture strategy, solution design, and technology modernization initiatives supporting business objectives, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements
• Define and communicate target-state architectures, technical roadmaps, reference patterns, and architectural guardrails to drive consistency, scalability, and long-term sustainability
• Partner with business, product, engineering, security, and operational teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, cloud-enabled technology solutions
• Provide technical leadership for cloud migration, application modernization, data integration, and enterprise platform transformation initiatives, including M3P architecture evolution (M3P reference added as role-specific context)
• Conduct architecture assessments, impact analyses, and technology evaluations to identify risks, dependencies, technical debt, and optimization opportunities
• Establish and enforce non-functional requirements, including performance, resiliency, availability, security, compliance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness standards
• Guide engineering teams through solution implementation, architecture reviews, proof-of-concepts, design decisions, and adoption of enterprise standards and best practices
• Influence stakeholders and leadership through effective communication of architectural vision, technology strategy, business value, risks, and trade-offs
• Champion innovation and AI-enabled engineering practices leveraging approved tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot/Codex, and Claude to improve design quality, productivity, documentation, and delivery outcomes
• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads while fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, accountability, and customer-focused innovation
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent experience considered
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or technology leadership roles
• 5+ years of experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud-based solutions
• Demonstrated experience developing architecture roadmaps, target-state architectures, reference architectures, and technology modernization strategies
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, impact assessments, technical evaluations, and trade-off analyses to support strategic decision-making
• Experience mentoring engineers and architects while driving adoption of enterprise standards, governance processes, and best practices
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), application modernization, APIs, event-driven architectures, microservices, and integration frameworks
• Proven expertise in non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and operational readiness
• Proven ability to communicate architecture vision, technical strategies, and recommendations to engineering teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership
• Proven solid analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent architecture certifications
• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization initiatives for large enterprise platforms
• Healthcare, health insurance, pharmacy, claims, billing, or financial systems experience
• Experience with M3P, ORMB, NextGen, MarTech, or large-scale enterprise transaction processing platforms
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot/Codex, Claude, and enterprise AI platforms to improve architecture quality and delivery outcomes
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and site reliability engineering practices
• Azure cloud architecture, healthcare domain expertise, M3P/ORMB platforms, DevSecOps

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.