Principal Enterprise Architect
2 weeks ago
The work you do with our team will directly reduce cost and improve health outcomes by streamlining Enterprise systems, 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.
We are seeking a visionary and dynamic Principal Enterprise Architect to join our team in support of digital efforts within Optum Consumer Product focused on delivering Common Capability Solutions across Enterprise systems.
In this role, you will help shape the architectural landscape, focusing on the consumer digital domain, with a particular emphasis on managing an evolving and dynamic product and program portfolio in both the Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) domains.
Key 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 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
