Senior Azure Cloud Architect

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

An individual in the Architecture job family is a strategic resource for UnitedHealth Group. This individual could be involved across many aspects of architecture, design, build, engineering and implementation of technical solutions and capabilities providing technical leadership. Responsible for communicating overall architecture vision, technical strategies, and trade-offs across various levels in the organization to gain buy-in. Will provide recommendations and technical guidance to improve performance, reliability, and reusability within the constraints of budget, resource and business dependencies. In base and mid-level roles, engages across teams in a capacity that ranges from assisting on in-flight initiatives, up to technical briefings and demonstrations of new technologies across the organization. In senior level roles, leads business solutions, capabilities, and is a solid influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture, engineering, and production operations of secure Azure-based OnePaaS platform services
• Build secure cloud landing zones, identity, networking, governance, and enterprise platform foundations
• Drive DevSecOps practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and SRE
• Implement AI-assisted DevOps and SecOps capabilities including anomaly detection, drift analysis, auto-remediation, and predictive operational insights
• Establish zero-trust security architecture, automated guardrails, policy enforcement, and compliance controls
• Deliver platform observability, monitoring, incident management, reliability engineering, and cost optimization
• Enable enterprise data and application platforms including Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, and API integrations
• Develop reusable platform services, reference architectures, and self-service capabilities
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams using Agile methodologies while driving platform adoption and operational excellence
• Champion responsible AI practices, governance, and secure AI enablement across the platform
• AI Builder:
  • Designs and operationalizes AI-enabled platform capabilities by integrating AI into cloud platform engineering, DevSecOps, and SecOps workflows. Builds secure, scalable automation using AI for anomaly detection, predictive operations, auto-remediation, governance, and engineering productivity while ensuring responsible AI adoption across enterprise cloud platforms
• Reviews the work of others
• Develops innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
• Serves as a leader/ mentor
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of Azure Cloud Platform Architecture and OnePaaS Leadership
• Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and CI/CD Platforms
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Python, PowerShell, YAML)
• Knowledge of Platform Engineering and SRE
• Knowledge of Cloud Security, Zero Trust, IAM, and Governance
• Knowledge of AI-Assisted DevOps and SecOps
• Knowledge of AI Automation, Agentic AI, and Auto-remediation
• Knowledge of Cloud Observability and Incident Management
• Knowledge of Azure Networking and Landing Zones
• Knowledge of Platform Cost Optimization (FinOps)
• Knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow
• Knowledge of REST APIs and Enterprise Integration
• Knowledge of Agile Delivery and Technical Leadership
• Knowledge of Cross-functional Stakeholder Management

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.

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