Senior Analytics Platform Architect: Cloud, AI & Data

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Optum Tech, a part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks an experienced architect to define and drive the end-to-end Analytics Platform architecture for Risk Adjustment, Quality Analytics, and related solutions.

You will lead architecture reviews, design scalable cloud data solutions on Azure, mentor engineers, and ensure governance, security, and observability across pipelines across MA/ACA/Medicaid contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or enterprise app development, incl. 5+ years in Architecture.
• 8+ years designing and implementing large-scale analytics, data processing, and cloud-based solutions.
• 5+ years with Azure technologies (Databricks, Data Factory, Storage, SQL) and cloud-native patterns.
• 5+ years distributed computing with Spark, PySpark, SQL, Python, Java, or Scala.
• Hands-on AI/ML and GenAI experience with Copilot, LLMs, MLOps frameworks.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and cloud governance models.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data pipelines, data lakes, and Lakehouse architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive end-to-end architecture for Analytics Platform supporting Risk Adjustment, Quality Analytics, Chart Targeting, Care Management, and Analytics & Reporting solutions.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for strategic initiatives, including system integration and analytics modernization.
• Design scalable, secure big data solutions leveraging Azure Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Kafka, and cloud services.
• Establish architecture standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive platform modernization, including migration from legacy technologies to cloud-native architectures and automation.
• Lead data integration strategies across claims, membership, provider, pharmacy, quality, and risk adjustment datasets.
• Utilize GenAI tools to improve developer productivity and solution quality.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps collaboration

Observability & governance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Storage

Azure SQL

Spark

Python

SQL

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

LLMs

Job description

Optum Tech, a part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks an experienced architect to define and drive the end-to-end Analytics Platform architecture for Risk Adjustment, Quality Analytics, and related solutions.

You will lead architecture reviews, design scalable cloud data solutions on Azure, mentor engineers, and ensure governance, security, and observability across pipelines across MA/ACA/Medicaid contexts.