Principal Architect

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Optum is seeking an experienced Principal Architect
- Public Sector Platforms, Security & Applications to provide architecture and technical leadership across our state government technology portfolio. Our teams design, develop, modernize, and operate mission-critical solutions and IT services spanning Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), Data and Analytics, Healthcare Access, Program Operations, digital applications and integrations, cloud and platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , reliability, and cybersecurity. This role will establish architectural coherence across Product Engineering, Tier 0/Platform Engineering, Security Operations, and Dev Ops/SRE while ensuring security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, interoperability, and operability are built into solutions from the start.

The successful candidate will translate federal and state technology, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into practical reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable patterns, automated guardrails, and platform capabilities that delivery teams can adopt across client programs.

• Define and evolve target architectures across applications, platforms, cloud, data, analytics, integration, security, identity, observability, and reliability for state government solutions
• Establish architecture principles, reference architectures, technology standards, reusable patterns, and engineering guardrails that create consistency across programs while accommodating state-specific and contractual requirements
• Provide architecture leadership for solutions spanning EDW and data platforms, analytics, healthcare access, program operations, digital applications, integration services, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity
• Translate business, client, contractual, regulatory, security, privacy, and operational requirements into feasible technical architectures; identify risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and opportunities for reuse
• Establish data architecture patterns for EDW, data lakes/lake houses, analytics, reporting, operational data stores, and batch, streaming, API-based, and event-driven integration, including classification, lineage, retention, masking, encryption, and access control
• Guide application and integration architecture for modern web applications, APIs, microservices, workflow solutions, distributed systems, and interoperability with state and federal systems and external partners
• Partner with Tier 0/Platform Engineering to turn architectural standards into reusable platform capabilities and secure golden paths for cloud foundations, networking, identity, containers/Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, secrets, API management, logging, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
• Embed security and privacy by design and translate applicable client and regulatory requirements into technical controls and reference architectures in partnership with Security Operations and delivery teams
• Apply applicable standards based on client, contract, data type, and system scope, including NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, NIST RMF guidance, NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust, FIPS, HIPAA/HITECH, applicable CMS security and privacy requirements including ARS, IRS Publication 1075 for FTI, state cybersecurity and privacy standards, client policies, and applicable CIS benchmarks
• Establish secure patterns for identity, authentication, authorization, least privilege, privileged access, encryption, key management, secrets, segmentation, application security, API security, data protection, and continuous monitoring
• Translate security and regulatory controls into architecture and engineering requirements, identify inheritable controls, support control traceability and evidence generation, and promote reusable security capabilities across client programs
• Partner with Dev Ops/SRE and Product…