Director of Architecture - Remote

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The Business Architecture Analyst team is responsible for achieving business outcomes by coordinating with IT, business, and senior leadership to set priorities, manage new business, and provide direction and oversight to the business architecture analysts. The team devises and establishes IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies set by senior IT leadership. They communicate and collaborate with senior IT management on labor needs, budgets, and risks. The team manages and aligns business architecture analysts to work with business, product, and feature teams to derive functional and non-functional technical requirements. They ensure business architecture analysts use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as use case modeling, business process modeling, and requirement decomposition techniques. Additionally, they curate comprehensive end-to-end testing plans, covering functional, performance, and usability testing.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship through deep technical and business understanding of the federal technology landscape, limitations, costs and risks
• Establish short and long term goals for the growth of the business architecture analyst team
• Develop staff KPI’s and goals consistent with business and departmental requirements and goals
• Administration of department policy and procedures to include performance reviews, handling employee issues, monitoring PTO (Paid Time Off), timesheet approval, interviewing, oversight of new hire training, professional growth and performance, and routine departmental task
  
  

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

• 7+ years of experience as technology professional, in Software Engineering, Architecture, or Product Management, supporting legacy and modern software
• 3+ years of experience in software delivery for use in support of Federal clients, to include the Department of Defense
• 3+ years of experience defining and driving the technical direction of strategic initiatives
• 3+ years of experience in driving both the Business and IT strategies to cohesively propel each other at organizational, national, and/or global scale
• 2+ years of experience leading technology teams in the design and delivery of software
• If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment
• United States Citizenship
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering or related field
• 10+ years of experience in related fields
• 2+ years of IT Director or similar role
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
  
  

The salary range for this role is $124,500 to $239,400 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.