Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Architect to join our team at Optum, a global organisation delivering care and technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. As a Principal Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare by driving innovative solutions and technologies that improve health outcomes.
About Us
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we aim to make healthcare work better for everyone. We invest in cutting-edge technologies and innovative approaches to drive positive change in the healthcare ecosystem.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Principal Architect and contribute to the creation and evolution of a consolidated strategic architecture roadmap. You will define technical details of solutions aligned with enterprise technology standards and support modernization agendas.
Responsibilities
* Contribute to the creation and evolution of a consolidated strategic architecture roadmap
* Define technical details of solutions align with enterprise technology standards and support 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 as well as specific line of business plan
* 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 remove roadblocks and enable strategic risk taking; advocate and drive change management, enable and model adoption of innovative behaviours and practices
* Build productive cross business relationships with both technical and business partners to deliver true enterprise level solutions which meet stakeholder requirements
Requirements
* 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
* Azure and/or AWS solution architecture certifications
* Healthcare domain experience
Working Arrangements
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements. 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.
Company Culture
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 colour, historically marginalised 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.
Diversity and Inclusion
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.