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 advantages 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.
- Primary Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Design
- Lead design of distributed, scalable systems and microservices architectures
- Define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns (event-driven, async)
- Technical Leadership
- Act as technical authority for architecture and complex problem-solving
- Influence engineering decisions across teams without formal authority
- Engineering Standards & Platforms
- Establish reusable patterns, standards, and shared components




- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and automation-first mindset
- Cloud & Distributed Systems
- Drive cloud-native solutions across AWS / Azure / GCP
- Lead microservices, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and platform engineering
- DevOps & Delivery Excellence
- Lead CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment reliability
- Improve engineering productivity through standardised tooling and automation
- Reliability & Observability
- Ensure production readiness via monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting
- Drive diagnostics and operational excellence practices
- Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- Make high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity
- Balance scalability, reliability, security, and delivery trade-offs
- 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-assig

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