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 advantages, 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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Strategic Application Architecture Design
- Champion observability‑driven architecture (golden signals, SLOs, and error budgets) to ensure systems are designed for measurable reliability and rapid, data‑driven iteration
- Compliance, Security & Governance
- Implement policy‑as‑code and guardrails‑by‑default (e.g., service policies, RBAC, OPA) to operationalize governance across environments
- Platform Reliability & Optimization
- Establish end‑to‑end observability (OpenTelemetry‑aligned tracing, metrics, logs, and profiling) with actionable dashboards, SLO reporting, and automated alerting to accelerate MTTR and improve customer experience
- Embed resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, bulkheads, partitioning, autoscaling) and validate them continuously via chaos experiments and game days
- Technology Thought Leadership
- Stay ahead of trends in microservices, event‑driven architecture, serverless computing, container orchestration, observability practices, chaos engineering, and AI‑enhanced developer platforms (DevEx) to continuously evolve platform capabilities
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Fault Tolerance
- Define RTO/RPO objectives, implement multi‑zone/region failover patterns, and regularly test disaster recovery through automated drills
- Automation, Scalability & CI/CD Enablement
- Leverage automation
📌 Principal Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Optum
📍 Chennai