Solution Architect-Eden Prairie, MN - Full-time / Part-time

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. 
 
 
This position will be responsible for leading conversation and guiding implementations with customers in support of products in the Healthcare Utility Services suite in the Optum Cloud.  As an architect leading this effort, this person will need a mix of leadership, business communication and technical skills to ensure our service consumers are effectively implemented and ramped up on our systems. The ideal candidate will have experience working with both the business and IT with the ability to communicate various technical concepts to a non-technical audience. This role may also lead a team of junior BA/Solution Architects. 
 
 
Additionally, we need someone who conceptually understands web services, both SOAP and REST and has strong data skills including analytics and database queries.
  
Primary Responsibilities:

Drive customers to define the most effective solution to their business problems while also leveraging industry knowledge to assert competitive advantage
Provide customers with implementation of product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
Gather requirements and relate requirement information back to technical team
Includes developing and documenting business rules that can apply to the current customer, but are flexible enough to apply to additional customers
Includes working with Architecture to drive schema changes to best serve customers
Help write custom client documents (such as Business Rules, Data Templates, etc.)
Setup Customers across multiple products and environments
Consult with Customer for logic pertaining to web services and/or bulk loads
Support the integration testing of Customer logic (E.g. Provide Test Cases, participate in some QA work, foresee potential issues to avoid processing errors, etc.)
 
 
 
 
 

 
Required Qualifications:

5+ years in the software engineering and/or health care profession
5+ years’ experience in a client facing role, gathering and documenting technical requirements
5+ years’ experience with data analysis (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or Oracle)
Experience working with customers and their data both internally and externally
Previous experience with implementation, business analyst and support of customers
Bachelor's Degree or HS Diploma/GED with 4+ years of equivalent work experience
Experience with implementations using Pentaho ETL tool
 
 
Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with assisting in the development of product manuals and/or processes and procedures
Ability to read and interpret various customer files (xml, json, pipe delimited)
Ability to read and interpret Logical models (relational ERDs, Cartesian products, NoSQL, etc.)
Experience with process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes
Proven experience delivering software using an Agile/Scrum methodology
 
 
 
 
 
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
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