Architect - Remote - 2303927

Overview

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.

Optum Insight partners with payers, providers, governments and life sciences companies to simplify and enhance clinical, administrative and financial processes through software-enabled services and analytics, while advancing value-based care. Our differentiated products, technology insights, clinical expertise and analytics support the entire health system — ultimately delivering better experiences for consumers.

Optum Insight Technology and Engineering is a critical function in Optum Insight driving the innovation and value we provide our customers and partners. This team is focused on products, solutions, platform / enabling capability development, product development lifecycle, engineering excellence and connectivity to Optum Technology. 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 strong influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Integrate enterprise-approved AI tools into team workflows
• Build AI goals into check-ins and development plans, and align hiring practices with our AI-persona framework
• Identify and remove organizational and operational barriers to accelerate AI implementation
• Gathers details and facts to assist team in clearly defining problem and opportunities for improving highly complex problems
• Identifies both internal and external customer experience impacts and develops persona's to represent those impacts and customer needs. Ties problems to persona needs
• Leverages network of resources both inside and outside the company as additional source of facts / data and knowledge
• Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and research root-cause to provide better clarity in defining highly complex problems
• Assists in defining Business / Product Strategy and assessing the Value / Outcome business is trying to achieve
• Strong knowledge on customer's product roadmap and linking defined problems to roadmap priorities
• Articulates problems with written and verbal communication as well as presentation materials to team members and immediate leadership
• Identifies cause and effect relationships between known and unknown variables
• Breaks complex topics into meaningful chunks of information - assesses relevancy, eliminates noisy information, corroborates from multiple sources
• Facilitates product capability strategy, and supports product capability strategic architecture planning and transformation
• Demonstrate understanding of the product capability by producing detailed architecture artifacts that support the top-level designs provided by Sr-level Architects in accordance with standards and guidelines
• Works with the delivery teams to identify technical debt and address in the product roadmap
• Designs and deliver solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards and advances the architecture toward the target state
• Collaborate with the business and engineering stakeholders by clearly identifying scope, application impacts & sizing
• Produces solutions options and design models with moderate complexity that connect multiple product domains and technologies
• Articulates trade-offs with enterprise standards staying connected with engineering reality
• Demonstrates Agile architecture by adapting quickly to the changing requirements of customer and provides solution recommendations from existing blueprints
• Demonstrates expert understanding of the technology stack for software components within multiple capabilities
• Research and recommend changes to the tech stack as part of modernization efforts

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $110,200 to $188,800 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline : This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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