Full-Time Principal Enterprise Architect

Optum is seeking a visionary and dynamic Principal Enterprise Architect to join our team in support of digital efforts within Optum Consumer Product focused on delivering Identity Solutions across Enterprise systems. The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping the architectural landscape, focusing on the consumer digital domain, with a particular emphasis on enhancing the Identity experience for mobile, web, and chat experiences in both the Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) domains. In this role you will help make Optum's consumer obsessed digital vision come to life by shaping the vision, architecture and delivery of our Identity solutions.

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

Primary 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

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:

• 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+ 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 design or delivery of large scale Identity Platform (IDP) / Credential Service Provider (CSP) including the use of protocols such as SAML, OIDC, SSO, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

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