Principal Architect

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 in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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, DevSecOps, reliability, and cybersecurity. This role will establish architectural coherence across Product Engineering, Tier 0/Platform Engineering, Security Operations, and DevOps/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…