Principal Software Engineer - Remote or Hybrid in MN and DC

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.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions.

We're Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving United Health Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through United Healthcare & Optum.

The Optum Technology Chief Digital Office (CDO) Leadership team is transforming Optum to be an industry-leading Consumer brand. We are on a journey towards delivering a best-in-the-industry consumer experience to our patients and providers by delivering personalized digital solutions that support our consumers throughout their healthcare journeys. This team is transforming to meet the moment - to begin radically altering the way our customers engage with the healthcare system using modern tech to solve some of the most complex problems experienced along the way.

Serving all of United Health Group's digital technology needs, the CDO team is responsible for driving outcomes across nearly 30 million+ human lives with United Healthcare insurance, a number which puts UHC at the top of the pack as the largest managed care provider in the United States.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer, Identity to drive consumer identity architecture across the Identity Platform and the products built on it. This is identity for members, patients, and care providers, not workforce identity. The role partners with peer leaders in the Non-Human Identity (NHI) and Security & Trust domains. Together, these roles cover the full identity architecture surface of the platform;

this role anchors the human identity domain.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Architecture and strategy. Set the architectural direction for consumer identity across the Identity Platform and the products that consume it, driving convergence of consumer (B2C) and provider (B2B) experiences onto shared platform capabilities

* Standards and patterns. Establish reference designs and platform standards for authentication, authorization, federation, delegation, identity lifecycle, proofing, and account recovery

* Modern identity roadmap. Own the direction for modern authentication and assurance, including passwordless, adaptive authentication, and alignment to NIST 800-63

* Cross-team influence. Influence and align architecture across product engineering teams as a trusted technical advisor, and raise the engineering bar across the identity organization

* Peer collaboration. Partner with peer leaders in NHI and Security & Trust at the boundaries where human, machine, and risk intersect, including delegated access and on-behalf-of flows for AI agents

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an…