Senior Business Intelligence Architect - Remote Kelsey-Seybold Clinic

Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties. Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles.  Responsibilities may include Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud solution with a focus on data stores and associated eco systems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments. Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition.  May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting and helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data.  Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Job Scope and Leveling Guidelines:

• Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements.
• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems.
• Solves moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analyses.
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks.
• Translates concepts into practice.
• Provides explanations and information to others on difficult issues.
• Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others.
• Acts as a resource for others with less experience

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain enterprise and solution architecture standards aligned with business strategy
• Lead the design of complex, cross-domain solutions (applications, data, integrations, infrastructure)
• Provide architectural oversight and governance for major initiatives and platforms
• Partner with business leaders, product owners, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable designs
• Evaluate technologies and platforms; make recommendations based on cost, risk, scalability, and value
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and reliability standards
• Guide and mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads
• Review designs and provide direction to ensure architectural consistency and quality
• Communicate architecture decisions and tradeoffs to executive and technical audiences

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience in solution, enterprise, or domain architecture
• Solid understanding of application, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture
• Proven ability to influence and lead without direct authority
• Proven solid communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proven solid expertise with the on-premises Microsoft BI stack, including:
• SQL Server (database engine, performance tuning, high availability)
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for ETL development
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) (Tabular and/or Multidimensional)
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Power BI Report Server and enterprise semantic models
• Microsoft Stack including SSIS Strong

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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