Principal Enterprise Architect - Portfolio - Remote

$122,100 - $234,700/Yr

UnitedHealth Group - Minneapolis, MN

Full-time - Principal

Remote - Minneapolis, MN

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

Optum is seeking a visionary and dynamic Principal Enterprise Architect to support digital efforts within Optum Consumer Product. This role focuses on delivering Common Capability Solutions across Enterprise systems, shaping the architectural landscape in the consumer digital domain, and managing a dynamic product and program portfolio in both B2C and B2B domains. The successful candidate will help realize Optum's consumer-obsessed digital vision by shaping the vision, architecture, and delivery of common solutions.

Responsibilities

• Craft and communicate the overarching architecture vision and technical strategies, securing buy-in at all organizational levels.
• Provide expert recommendations and technical guidance to optimize system performance, reliability, and reusability, mindful of budgetary and business constraints.
• Engage with multiple teams and vendors, offering assistance on ongoing projects, technical briefings, and demonstrations of emerging technologies.
• Partner directly with business units to develop solutions and capabilities, acting as a key influencer with executives and other stakeholders.
• Drive the definition of business, product, and technical strategies in collaboration with product managers and leaders.
• Conduct rigorous research and analysis to define current states, identify gaps, and devise solutions for complex challenges.
• Develop conceptual models of potential solutions, documenting them through a blend of textual descriptions and diagrams.
• Make strategic architecture decisions that incorporate considerations for security, performance, scalability, reliability, and usability.
• Present a decision matrix with solution recommendations to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Architect and guide Product Engineering Teams to deliver solutions that conform to enterprise architecture standards and contribute to the progression of technical strategies.
• Promote the use of reusable patterns and collaborate on scope definition, application impacts, and sizing with business and engineering stakeholders.
• Work with delivery teams to identify and mitigate technical debt, both short-term and strategically.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or 5+ years equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in technology.
• 6+ years of experience dedicated to implementing and integrating technology solutions, spanning data engineering, cloud solutions, system integration, solution design, development/configuration, and deployment.
• 6+ years of experience navigating complex business problems and solution options involving multiple domains and technologies.
• 6+ years of experience in facilitating and leading solution design, architecture, and delivery planning activities across multidisciplinary teams.
• 6+ years of experience effectively communicating solutions and patterns to a geographically diverse workforce, including senior leaders and various resource groups.
• 6+ years of experience with industry-standard patterns, practices, and technologies, especially streaming and containerization.
• 4+ years of experience in technical roles at an architect or senior engineer level.
• 4+ years of experience specializing in enterprise services that provide top-tier experiences, with a solid emphasis on non-functional requirements.
• 4+ years of experience directly involving management or delivery of a diverse portfolio of products/programs within a matrixed environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Track record of driving alignment within large, complex, matrixed organizations.
• Professional experience in architecting and managing solutions on both private and public cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of security, privacy, and regulations pertaining to PHI, PII, or similar concerns.
• Experience working in Healthcare on the Provider side supporting patient journeys.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution