Architect

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.
Provide expert level strategic direction and advice across all domains including, but not limited to, AI, application, compute, network, productivity, storage, and data protection domains from an Information Security lens. This person will be considered the expert and go-to person for technical security items and be able to communicate at all levels of leadership the importance of the technology, software, platform, or service chosen.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide expert level security assessments and reviews across all domains and technology functions while consulting with business and IT projects to provide holistic security requirements
• Lead, mentor and advise services to Infosec, business, and project teams to ensure that solutions are in line with the architecture direction and business strategies
• Play a key role in defining the technology, software, and platform engineering lifecycle and providing requirements to project teams (tools, capabilities, processes, etc.)
• Develop architecture documents/standards and pattern artifacts to security advisement teams consulting in enterprise projects
• Influence key leaders in the organization on security principles that may be controversial and difficult to implement in order to protect customers and company data
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regard to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of related Network, Application, System, Storage, and Security Architecture experience.
• 6+ years of experience implementing security solutions within Azure, AWS, or GCP
• 2+ years of providing technical guidance and mentoring to engineers, designers and developers
• 1+ years of experience with architecting and designing security infrastructures
• Knowledge of common IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS components and how to secure them by design\
• Knowledge of world class protections against current and future cyber threats in order to keep company information secure (Risk Based Authentication, DLP, FW, IPS, Encryption, Proxies, Sandboxing, Full Packet Forensics, Fraud Solutions, PKI, big data security, etc.)

Preferred Qualification:

• Knowledge of HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 2700X and proper application of the Security and Privacy Rules. Preferred knowledge of the HITRUST Common Security Framework and NIST 800-53

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.
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