Sr Principal Architect - Remote in Canada

UnitedHealth Group; Richmond; Remote; CAD 138,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr Principal Architect to lead innovative solutions for their Enterprise Imaging platform. This role involves hands-on architecture leadership, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, particularly in medical imaging and cloud computing. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving health outcomes while enjoying the flexibility of remote work across Canada. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development and application design.
• 5+ years in architect role for large-scale software projects.
• Experience architecting large scale Medical Imaging solutions.

Responsibilities

• Guide architecture and design of cloud-based software systems for medical images.
• Work cross-functionally to address customer and market problems.
• Define and enforce development best practices and standards.

Skills

Software Development

Application Design

Cloud Computing

Medical Imaging Solutions

REST APIs

Agile/DevOps

Data Analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

SQL Server

MySQL

Splunk

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 startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Sr Principal Architect is a key leadership role, responsible for developing new and creative innovative approaches for the company’s Enterprise Imaging platform.

Enterprise Imaging platform is a software-based image management solution to be used by radiologists, cardiologists and other medical personnel. It has a robust set of image acquisition, storage, management of imaging and clinical information, visualization, workflow, collaboration, and diagnostic tools.

This person will be a thought-leader, with real-world business common sense, and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions to understand problems, design solutions, and solve technical issues.

They will provide hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring to our distributed engineering teams, be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to engineering leadership, and ensure the delivery of high-quality resilient, secure, and scalable systems and solutions.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within Canada (except for the Saskatchewan province) as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Guide the architecture, design, implementation and testing of cloud-based and on-premise software systems for medical images
• Work cross-functionally to ensure customer and market problems are well understood and properly addressed in solution architecture and design, and that appropriate Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. cost-effective, performant, sustainable, and durable) are defined at the product and solution level
• Define and enforce development best-practices, standards, policies, and principles used by software development teams
• Ensure each solution component has a well-defined architecture and technology roadmap, manages tech debt, and performs proper threat modeling and risk analysis
• Anticipate future needs and oversee the evaluation and identification of new technologies for implementation
• Evangelize the overall vision to ensure it is well-understood

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:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent professional work experience
• 10+ years of experience in hands-on development, application design and delivery of full-stack software products
• 6+ years in an architect role in previous large-scale software development projects, preferably SaaS delivery model
• 5+ years of experience architecting/deploying large scale Medical Imaging solutions
• 5+ years of experience in applications and infrastructure in Cloud Compute workloads in either GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Experience with developing and delivering commercial enterprise software

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with modern Agile/DevOps development processes, including continuous integration and deployment, tracking of project metrics, unifying development and operations, zero-downtime updates, etc.
• Experience developing and delivering REST API(s) to be consumed by partners and customers
• Experience with cloud storage, such as Azure Storage, S3, EBS, or equivalent
• Experience with databases and data stores (including performance tuning), such as SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora, Spanner, or Redis
• Experience with data analytics tools, such as Splunk or ELK

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

Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $138,600 to $ 288,000 per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.