Lead Platform Architect - Remote
UnitedHealth Group
- Baltimore, MD
- $122,100-234,700 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Introduce and define the technical vision for solutions, establishing the solution/technical architecture that aligns with the overall strategy
- Collaborate with Business Architects, Chief Product Owners, and other stakeholders to define High Level Solution Intent, target state architectures, and roadmaps
- Create reference architectures and design patterns to ensure consistent and aligned implementation of architecture roadmaps
- Drive the development and maintenance of detailed solution intent and product architecture across responsible Agile Release Trains (ARTs), addressing both functional and non-functional requirements
- Plan and develop Architectural Runway to support new business features and capabilities
- Explore solution alternatives and new technologies to address business needs, focusing on customer experience, operational efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness
- Participate in deployment activities, ensuring successful implementation and addressing pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment considerations
- Engage in the incident resolution process, assisting with troubleshooting, issue identification, and impact assessments
- Build Reference Applications/Implementations for reusability and to accelerate the adoption of new architectural standards/patterns
- Maintain Infrastructure, Security, Operations, Data, and Application Design pattern catalogs
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Certified Architect in Salesforce, Microsoft Power Platform, Pega, Appian or any approved Ecosystem vendor platform (i.e. Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential, a Certified Application Architect, or a Certified System Architect) or willing to become certified upon hire
- 10+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Technical Leadership, and Business Application development
- 5+ years of experience with large scale Low Code/No Code (LC/NC) platform deployments including some experience with a large government agency
- Experience with government IT implementations
- Direct and architectural experience with modern Cloud Native architectures, with a demonstrable record of leading architects through organizational transformations
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 15%
- Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance if required
- 3+ years of relevant large-scale enterprise transformation experience in architecture
- Salesforce platform experience
- Deep knowledge of various enterprise-level platforms widely used in the industry
- Technical and architectural leadership with knowledge of both legacy and modern cloud-based distributed systems
- Solid background in platform management operations for multiple platform environment
- Proven to be proactive, energetic self-starter with solid organizational and time management skills
- Proven excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information to business stakeholders