Senior Applications Architect: AI & Azure

SCA Health; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

SCA Health, part of Optum, is seeking a Senior Application Developer to design and develop scalable enterprise software solutions. You will collaborate with analysts, PMs, and business customers to understand problems, develop reusable components, and drive future technology and architectures.

Experience with AI tooling and Azure deployments is highly valued. Responsibilities include mentoring junior developers, performing code reviews, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or other technology related fields.
• 10-12 years of technical experience designing and developing large enterprise solutions using C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework, micro services architecture, and domain driven design.
• 5+ years of technical experience designing and developing web solutions using Angular, React, Kendo, NgRx State management.
• Understanding of prompt engineering concepts and ability to validate, refine, and optimize AI-generated code.
• Experience integrating AI-driven testing, code analysis, or refactoring tools into development workflows.
• Experience in building and deploying solutions in Azure.
• Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies.
• Exposure to DevOps will be considered as a plus.
• Sense of initiative and “can-do” attitude are highly recommended to succeed in this position.
• Proven ability to build effective working relationships within team and across other IT groups, ability to work independently.
• Research new technologies and initiatives.
• Help determine best architectural approaches.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing enterprise software solutions that are scalable, resilient, and high quality.
• Working with business analysts, project managers, and business customers to better understand the problem.
• Developing re-usable components and frameworks to solve complex business problems.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure that all solutions are aligned to pre-defined architectural specifications and coding best practices.
• Having a passion to learn and grow both technically and professionally.
• Ensuring there is a focus on delivering rich user experiences that meets user’s needs.
• Mentoring junior developers to help them grow and succeed.
• Provide direction to junior developers, act as escalation point for questions or issues.
• Driving the future technology, architecture, and methodologies used by the team.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex) to accelerate coding, improve quality, and reduce repetitive development tasks.
• Participate in evaluating emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with enterprise goals.
• Mentor junior developers on responsible and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Building influence outside of IT to help understand real world problems customers are having and be able to offer solutions.
• Develops reusable patterns/services to solve business problems.
• Utilize solid architecture skills to develop robust and supportable business solutions.
• Participate in Architecture/Technical design sessions and Scrum ceremonies.
• Ability to decompose the Epics to Features, Features into User Stories and User Stories into Tasks.
• Monitor, debug, and refactor code to improve performance of software solutions.
• Ability to read the current code and develop the system architecture and documentation for existing applications.
• Develop documentation throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Performs technical analysis to identify and troubleshoot application code-related issues.

Skills

Prompt engineering

AI tooling

Team collaboration

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

C#

.NET Framework

.NET Core

SQL Server

Entity Framework

Microservices

DDD

Angular

React

Kendo

NgRx

Azure

DevOps

Job description

SCA Health, part of Optum, is seeking a Senior Application Developer to design and develop scalable enterprise software solutions. You will collaborate with analysts, PMs, and business customers to understand problems, develop reusable components, and drive future technology and architectures.

Experience with AI tooling and Azure deployments is highly valued. Responsibilities include mentoring junior developers, performing code reviews, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards.