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 start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define strategy and outcomes for UHC’s data platform, linking business problems and goals to the roadmap

• Drive innovation in data management and cloud technologies to support data sharing and reuse

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align data platform initiatives with broader organizational objectives

• Oversee architecture, design, and implementation of platform capabilities to support consistency, security, interoperability, and quality of data on the platform

• Lead complex data platform projects from conception through delivery, ensuring timely and successful completion

• Align enterprise architecture direction and solutions with business strategies. Performs two functions : Outcome based E2E architecture & Platform Capability based strategic architecture

• Drive the Data Architecture Review Board, managing intake, documenting decisions and guiding teams to preferred data assets and the target state architecture for analytics and reporting.

• Decision maker for the identification/prioritization of solutions from the various options provided by teams, and final recommendation from multiple solution options

• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data engineering, and data security practices

• Identify, document and publish architecture and implementation best practices and standards.

• Partner with UHC data domain owners and technical owners to understand roadmaps, data use cases and challenges.

• Identify areas of reuse and consolidation across data assets, driving towards simplification and cost reduction.

• Collaborate with data engineering teams and business consumer to create reusable frameworks to enable federated development and uniformity on analytic and reporting implementations.

• Make recommendations around whether to maintain, invest, scale or sunset data assets based on strategy, cost benefit analysis, and usage.

• Establish processes for architecture reviews and decision making to streamline time to decision and enable higher velocity for delivery.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership in cloud data technologies

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing team of data engineers and architects

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation within the team

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field (Masters degree preferred)

• 12+ years of experience in data management, data analytics, data engineering, or related field

• 10+ years of healthcare industry experience

• Proven experience in a leadership role, managing teams and large scale projects

• Solid understanding of data architecture, data warehousing, ETL, and cloud technologies

• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs, and opportunistic ideas with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively

• Demonstrated ability to work within a highly regulated environment, preferably healthcare technology

• Proven use of Agile methodologies in delivering technology solutions, managing budgets, quality, and timelines to successful completion

• Proven excellent written and verbal communication, leadership, and strategic thinking skills

• Proven high attention to detail including ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

• Proven pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to provide better clarity in defining highly complex problems. Aligns problems to platform opportunities

• Proven solid analytical, project management and problem-solving skills

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.