Senior Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Architect (Golden Valley, MN or Hartford, CT)

At Optum, we are focused on doing things that have not been done yet; helping improve lives in ways that were unthinkable until we thought of them. Do you enjoy working with an elite team, empowered to do your best? If so, please consider this your opportunity to see your ideas come to life.   

 
 
Optum is known for its innovative approach to health care. Widely regarded as innovators and thought leaders, our executive team has served in key administration roles, on the boards of national and community-based organizations, and in a number of advocacy roles for health care and community-based organizations. We have spent decades investing in the technology and information capabilities that help us bring new ideas to market faster; we have developed solutions that are practical today and scalable for tomorrow; and we have created collaborative teams dedicated to innovation across each of our businesses to share our best thinking. The world will never be the same. And neither should you.

In this Sr. IT Architecture Analyst role, you will be responsible for analyzing business requirements, performing options analysis, ensuring quality/alignment of Designs, and you will demonstrate and apply knowledge of enterprise architecture and standards. You will also be responsible for the development, communication and implementation of the organization's technology architecture and the components required to support it and the integration of corporate and technical architectures and applications. 

To get better insight into our Technology careers and determine if they are the right fit for you, listen to our IT Leaders talk about differences, similarities, challenges, and opportunities in having a technology career in the health care industry at UnitedHealth Group:

Primary responsibilities:

• Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements
  
• Solve moderately complex problems and/or conduct moderately complex analysis
  
• Provide explanation and information to others on difficult issues
  
• Coach, provide feedback and guide others
  
• Maintain knowledge of current domains and strategic roadmaps
  
• Identify/quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems
  
• Incorporate software and system architecture into conceptual designs
  
• Support applicable modeling efforts (e.g., data modeling, process modeling, hardware modeling, performance modeling)
  
• Provide oversight of conceptual designs to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture governance (e.g., principles, policies, standards, future-state reference architectures)
  
• Maintain awareness of current technology assets, and the applicability and capability of each
  
• Maintain awareness of current business and industry issues/trends and incorporate into enterprise architecture designs as appropriate
  
• Acts as a subject matter expert to guide and craft enterprise class monitoring systems
  
• Gather business requirements and align monitoring architecture to those requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent IT experience
  
• 3+ years of experience building System Management environments utilizing Microsoft SCOM 2012 or 2007
  
• Experience establishing monitoring criteria based on business, compliance, risk reduction and use case
  
• Experience making recommendation configuration, improvements, upgrades and/or purchases
  
• Functional experience as a monitoring engineer in a fast paced environment
  
• Solid understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience building multi-tier applications such as Java, .NET, etc.
  
• Experience with Agile methodology
  
• Enterprise electronic messaging (Exchange/Zimbra)


• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Visio)
  
• Health care industry experience

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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