Principal Architect

About the role

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting‑edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum is seeking an experienced Technical Solutions Architect to own the technical architecture and AI‑accelerated proposal engineering behind State Medicaid RFP and RFI responses. This role designs the cloud, data, application, and integration architecture that supports the solution the pursuit team is proposing, builds the supporting technical artifacts (diagrams, integration patterns, technical cost inputs), and uses modern AI tooling to speed up and improve the quality of that technical work. You'll work as the technical right hand to the pursuit's Solution Lead and business development team, not as the owner of the overall customer solution, but as the person who makes sure the technology underneath it is sound, buildable, and well‑articulated.

Responsibilities

• Design the technical architecture for State Medicaid RFP/RFI responses, cloud, data, application, and integration layers, that supports the solution approach set by the pursuit's Solution Lead
• Translate RFP/RFI technical requirements into feasible architecture options, flagging technical risks, dependencies, and differentiators for the Solution Lead and pursuit team
• Develop technical artifacts: architecture diagrams, solution matrices, integration patterns, and technical cost/estimate inputs that feed the overall pricing model owned by the pursuit team
• Ensure technical designs align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and Medicaid domain frameworks (e.g., MITA, CMS guidelines) across claims, eligibility, provider management, and Data and Analytics
• Use AI tools (e.g., Azure OpenAI, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate technical solution drafting, documentation, and architecture diagramming
• Generate technical narrative content, reusable technical assets, and compliance-ready technical response sections
• Design AI-enabled architectures leveraging generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and