Director Solution Architect

Job Description

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.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 solid influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders.Primary Responsibilities:As a Senior Solutions Architect within UnitedHealthcare IS Team, you will be expected to ensure we are building client information systems that are truly aligned with the business by engaging in the following activities:

• Modeling best practices and business landscape to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions
• Consulting with client senior leaders and/or external vendors on complex issues having impact across integrated organizations and systems
• Collaborating with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions
• Formulating and defining system scope and objectives
• Providing baseline support for data management, integration, and strategic road mapping processes
• Driving strategic and transitional planning of applications, information and business functions
• Leading and participating in the design of information and application architectures on the basis of cost, functionality and practicality
• Assisting in setting standards and guidelines on how to unambiguously define and describe business and systemic requirements for information systems projects
• Providing stewardship/governance for business services and business process modeling and management on behalf of the stakeholder
• Communicating effectively with externally facing senior stakeholders
• Serving as an ambassador for UnitedHealthcare, inspiring trust and building relationships of integrity
• Collaborating across other areas of the UnitedHealthcare Architecture team
• Facilitating open communication and fact-based decision making
• Driving change and process improvement within software development and business organizations
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance and direction through multiple layers of management and senior level professional staff
• Work most often impacts a large business unit, or multiple markets/sites
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experiences
• 15 years of experience in software design and development
• 10 years of experience in the systematic use of business requirements analysis and definition methodologies
• Experience with strategic planning, portfolio management, and/or application/technology road mapping
• Experience with high-volume, transaction processing software applications
• Experience interacting and consulting with senior leaders and/or outside vendors on complex issues
• Understanding of technological infrastructure and how it relates to project solutions and integration
• Demonstrated solid facilitation skills to synthesize and communicate customer requirements
• Demonstrated modeling skills, including business, process, requirements, applications, data, and technology
• Proven ability to demonstrate the relationship of data structures as they relate to integrated systems solutions
• Proven ability to exhibit and apply comprehensive knowledge of systems analysis to the completion of challenging assignments
• Proven ability to comprehend the impact of the challenge at hand to the broader technology and stakeholder environment
• Ability to travel up to 100 PERCENT if required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experiences as a management consultant
• Knowledge of the healthcare industry

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.Apply Internal Employee Application Locations - Primary Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Keyskills :
solutions architecture business requirements analysis strategic planning stakeholder management data management senior level communicationmapping career development decision making