Program Architect - Remote

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $112,700 - $193,200/year

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United Health Group For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Program Architect provides strategic guidance to program and product leadership on adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation, and is a solid influencer that engages with client executives and stakeholders.

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:

Program Architects partner closely with Principal Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, and Enterprise Architects on product delivery and technology selection

Serve as the primary owner of solution intent, architectural integrity, and lifecycle continuity from pre-award through implementation, production, and sustainment

Ensure solution architecture remains aligned with contractual obligations, organizational standards, approved design patterns, security expectations, and long-term product and technology roadmaps

Balance architecture/design against price-to-win scenarios, determining optimum solutions from both technology fit and overall cost Provide recommendations to business unit senior leadership on capital technology investments and strategic technology roadmap Support the adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation

Ensure maintenance and documentation of end-to-end program IT architecture and promote continuous technology improvement in line with business strategies

Create and maintain contextual, conceptual, logical, and supporting architecture diagrams, models, and views at the appropriate level of detail

Provide mentorship to business partners through deep technical and business understanding of the program technology landscape, limitations, costs and risks

Drive technology acceleration

Foster innovation to achieve business outcomes

Responsible for defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals, developing solutions architectures, and providing technical leadership for proposals and strategic pursuits as well as creating content and contributing to the writing and assessments of proposals

Collaborate with Information Security and security architecture stakeholders to interpret applicable requirements and confirm that solutions align with required security frameworks and controls.

Assess market level technology trends as well as capabilities of complementary solutions enabling larger scale solution offerings

Support marketing materials development such as whitepapers, slicks, trifolds, etc.

Work with the CTO office and Develop IT-based solutions consisting of contextual, conceptual, and logical architectures using standards-based, rigorous methodologies and practices

Communicate solutions with management and teaming partners, including presentations and white papers

Support development of federal technical delivery methodology based on industry standard methodologies and frameworks

Support the adoption of best practices in the areas of technology integration, cloud computing, managed services, process improvement, technology innovation and implementation

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.

Required Qualifications:

4+ years of solutioning experience in legacy and modern software development lifecycle and services delivery2+ years engaging directly in responding to technical Request For Proposals (RFPs)
Experience defining and driving the technical direction of prospective business opportunity proposals and strategic pursuits, developing solutions architectures and providing analysis of alternatives

Demonstrated expertise in driving both…