Remote Program Architect - HealthTech Strategy Leader

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within U.S.

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase program

401k contribution

Incentive and recognition programs

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Program Architect to guide strategic technology adoption across the enterprise, from pre-award to sustainment. You will influence architects, lead solution direction, and ensure alignment with security and contractual obligations.

You will engage with senior leadership, balance cost with fit, and drive innovation and technology roadmap execution across the organization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of solutioning experience in legacy and modern software development lifecycle and services delivery.
• 2+ years engaging directly in responding to technical RFPs.
• Experience defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals and strategic pursuits, developing solutions architectures and providing analysis of alternatives.
• Demonstrated expertise in driving both the Business and IT strategies to cohesively propel each other at organizational, national, and/or global scale.
• Ability to travel up to 15%.
• United States Citizenship.
• If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Principal Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, and Enterprise Architects on product delivery and technology selection.
• Serve as the primary owner of solution intent, architectural integrity, and lifecycle continuity from pre-award through implementation, production, and sustainment.
• Ensure solution architecture remains aligned with contractual obligations, organizational standards, approved design patterns, security expectations, and long-term product and technology roadmaps.
• Balance architecture/design against price-to-win scenarios, determining optimum solutions from both technology fit and overall cost.
• Provide recommendations to business unit senior leadership on capital technology investments and strategic technology roadmap.
• Support the adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation.
• Ensure maintenance and documentation of end-to-end program IT architecture and promote continuous technology improvement in line with business strategies.
• Create and maintain contextual, conceptual, logical, and supporting architecture diagrams, models, and views at the appropriate level of detail.
• Provide mentorship to business partners through deep technical and business understanding of the program technology landscape, limitations, costs and risks.
• Drive technology acceleration.
• Foster innovation to achieve business outcomes.
• Responsible for defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals, developing solutions architectures, and providing technical leadership for proposals and strategic pursuits as well as creating content and contributing to the writing and assessments of proposals.
• Collaborate with Information Security and security architecture stakeholders to interpret applicable requirements and confirm that solutions align with required security frameworks and controls.
• Assess market level technology trends as well as capabilities of complementary solutions enabling larger scale solution offerings
• Support marketing materials development such as whitepapers, slicks, trifolds, etc.
• Work with the CTO office and Develop IT-based solutions consisting of contextual, conceptual, and logical architectures using standards-based, rigorous methodologies and practices
• Communicate solutions with management and teaming partners, including presentations and white papers
• Support development of federal technical delivery methodology based on industry standard methodologies and frameworks
• Support the adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation

Skills

Solution architecture

RFP responses

Strategic technology leadership

Communication skills

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Program Architect to guide strategic technology adoption across the enterprise, from pre-award to sustainment. You will influence architects, lead solution direction, and ensure alignment with security and contractual obligations.

You will engage with senior leadership, balance cost with fit, and drive innovation and technology roadmap execution across the organization.