At Optum, we aim to improve health outcomes by connecting people with care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Our culture is guided by diversity and inclusion, featuring talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.
About the role:
We are committed to making healthcare work better for everyone by hiring the best and brightest professionals. Our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the future needs of the healthcare industry.
Our teams use advanced technologies such as AI, data science, and innovative approaches to propel healthcare forward and make it more accessible to everyone.
The current Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) system is complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, resulting in significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is dedicated to delivering new technology and processes to improve the RCM workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem – payers, providers, and patients.
As a Principal Architect, you will have a direct impact on the full supply chain of healthcare, making it more seamless and frictionless, and providing a better consumer experience that touches all aspects of healthcare. The Principal Architect plays a crucial role in contributing to thought leadership/strategy, establishing and maintaining technical roadmaps, and representing all architecture disciplines for Optum businesses.
You will work alongside the Optum businesses, driving transformative change into the largest healthcare company in the nation, focusing on digitization and retail enabling customer experiences to keep pace with a challenging industry. In addition to having an impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an Industry Leader.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Architect:
* Contribute to the creation and evolution of a consolidated strategic architecture roadmap
* Define technical details of solutions aligning with enterprise technology standards and supporting modernization agendas
* Future-proof solution designs by ensuring the strategic architecture accommodates transitional needs
* Influence leadership on key decisions as it relates to the technology strategy and specific line of business plans
* Reviews of existing systems and ongoing engineering to ensure consistent alignment with the strategic architecture
* Communicate architectural concepts and patterns into clear, actionable engineering direction
* Provide architecture thought leadership when selecting tools and setting standards
* Create and foster an environment of innovation, including removing roadblocks and enabling strategic risk-taking; advocate and drive change management, enabling and modeling adoption of innovative behaviors and practices
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science or similar technical discipline
* Demonstrated expertise in delivering solution architecture designs in a complex enterprise environment
* Extensive experience in hands-on software engineering
* Demonstrated understanding and ability to design solutions based on modern cloud-native architectures (micro-service, streaming, etc.)
* Knowledge and usage of enterprise architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman
* Knowledge and experience in data management capabilities such as quality and governance
Preferred Qualifications:
* Master's degree in computer science or similar technical discipline
* Demonstrated experience in public cloud solution architecture
* Azure and/or AWS solution architecture certifications
* Healthcare domain experience
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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