Senior IS Architect - Hartford, CT, Plymouth, MN

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise.  Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Shared Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin.   Job Description: The Senior IS Architect is responsible for driving resolution of all technical details associated with Infrastructure Design and Construction, Application Deployment and Release Management for applications deployed in UnitedHealth Group’s server farms.  The Systems Engineer has the dual role of ensuring architectural integrity and compliance, while at the same time working with Operations to continuously improve availability, serviceability and efficiency of our Managed Services infrastructure. Primary Responsibilities: Define deployment architecture for application and infrastructure projects, working with multiple Service Delivery teams. Work with technical leads on Service Delivery teams to communicate technical designs and resolve implementation details for all network, server, storage and software components. Work with technical leads on Service Delivery teams to update operational procedures and resolve all issues pertaining to operational readiness. Ensure architectural integrity and compliance with Managed Services infrastructure standards. Work with Operations to drive continuous improvement in availability, serviceability, and efficiency. Perform technical risk assessments and develop contingency plans to insure situational requirements of change control. Recommend changes to resource utilization to improve efficiency. Identify cost-effective opportunities for technology refresh. Qualifications: Relevant Bachelors degree or experience equivalent. 6 or more years experience in IS/IT preferred (4 or more years experience required). Complex infrastructure environment. Advanced knowledge of complex multi-tier application hosting environments. Ability to understand and have insight into the big picture and relate it to the current state. Master level knowledge and experience in researching technologies. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Excellent consultative and communication skills. Strong analytical ability. Some project management skillsDiversity creates a healthier atmosphere:  equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V