Lead Business Architect - OptumRx

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Lead Business Architect

As a direct report to the Chief Architect for OptumRx, you will support the development of a newly forming Business Domain Architecture team. You will be responsible for helping to shape and mature this new practice supporting the OptumRx Segment.

Core responsibilities will include:

Contribute to improving business-IT alignment through the development of multi-year roadmaps for business and supporting application, information and technologies that align the business and IT and resolve any risks, gaps, dependencies and drive strategic investment recommendations

Coach and mentor business architects and ensure that high quality business architecture deliverables are consistently produced and used to drive information, application and technology investments

Track industry trends for business architecture and business strategy and provide insights

Maintain strong relationships and regular communication with senior business leaders and other relevant stakeholders

Coordinate roadmaps and ensure alignment across solution deliveries

Support the adoption / design, development, institutionalization and ongoing evolution of OptumRx Segment Architecture Practice / Framework

Establish or leverage / adopt appropriate Enterprise Architecture Platform that supports and implements defined Enterprise Architecture Framework

Provide guidance and mentoring to Business Architects, Application Architects, Data Architects and Solution Architects

Drive enterprise-wide collaboration by standardizing on the Enterprise Architecture knowledge management, training and actively participating in the architecture community across the enterprise

Participate on Architecture Review Board to ensure proper and consistent execution of governance

Ensure continual improvement of the practice

Candidates will possess:

10+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience

5+ years of Business Architecture and Planning experience

Previous leadership responsibilities, including mentoring and coaching others

In-depth knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and standards including TOGAF and/or Zachman

Extensive experience helping organizations build Enterprise Architecture capabilities (process, people, technology, information, etc.)

Consulting experience at the intersection of Business and IT Strategy

Business process analysis/engineering, planning and improvement domain expertise

Broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance

Proven ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies (which may exist in role alignment, process gaps and overlaps, and/or business capability maturity gaps)

Demonstrated ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges

Broad understanding of technology and how it's used to drive business growth and/or efficiencies

Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues

Ability to visualize and create high-level models (rigorous information-rich diagrams) that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture

Experience developing and using these high-level models to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business

Extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives (preference for both)

Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (preference for Casewise)

Exceptional communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization (this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations)

Ability to act as liaison conveying information in suitably accurate models between the business unit and their counterparts within Information Technology (* Note: The scope of this information includes business requirements, data constraints, business rules, models of strategy and motivation, processes, accountabilities, and many other business and IT operational needs)

Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities

Demonstrated success helping to drive organizational change

Prior experience creating financial models (e.g., CBAs, break-evens, revenue streams, NPV, etc)

Proven mentoring, influencing and negotiation skills

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Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

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