Principal Architect - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

UHC Technology is focused on driving change, modernization, and ensuring reliable and stable systems so that we can help to transform health care - making it easier, more affordable, and more effective for those we serve. We are passionate about technology and the role it plays to create distinctive experiences to our constituents. While we are always focused on how technology can help us deliver faster and with improved quality, we are far more enthusiastic about the ways technology can reinvent how we deliver on our mission in partnership with the UHC lines of business and Optum Technology.

The Principal Architect is a senior level technical leader responsible for defining, governing, and advancing enterprise level architecture for Payment Integrity and adjacent platforms. This position emphasizes deep technical authority, architecture strategy, standards governance, and cross organizational technical leadership.

You will partner with engineering, product, data, clinical, and business stakeholders to align technology direction with enterprise objectives, modernize core platforms, and ensure scalable, secure, and future ready systems. Your impact spans solution architecture, platform strategy, AI/ML enablement, engineering excellence, and enterprise adoption.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for architecture across Payment Integrity; define architecture vision, principles, patterns, and reference architecture
• Drive long range planning to align application and technology portfolios with business objectives
• Lead end to end architecture for platforms supporting claims, provider, eligibility, analytics, and modernization initiatives
• Evaluate solution options, integration patterns, cloud architectures, and modernization strategies
• Provide oversight for domain level architectures and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Assess and guide adoption of emerging AI/ML, automation, and LLM based technologies in alignment with enterprise approved tools
• Architect capabilities that support fraud/waste/abuse detection and enterprise payment integrity strategy
• Collaborate with senior engineering, product, clinical, analytics, and business stakeholders to translate needs into architectural direction
• Serve as the senior architecture point of contact across engineering, business, and operations teams
• Establish and enforce architecture governance, standards, patterns, roadmaps, and EA review boards
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, security guidelines, and industry standards (FHIR, CQL, CDS, HIPAA, terminology standards)
• Produce detailed architecture artifacts such as sequence diagrams, systems models, and data flows
• Lead proofs of concept, prototypes, and reference implementations
• Provide deep technical guidance to architects, engineers, and cross functional teams
• Mentor solution architects and engineering leaders; uplift architecture maturity and technical excellence
• Function as a thought leader within the architecture community and represent the ARC job family in strategic initiatives

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• 5+ years of technical leadership experience, influencing multiple engineering teams toward consistent architectural…