Optum is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans, aiming to improve the overall health care system. The Business Architecture Analyst role involves translating business requirements into detailed technical specifications and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance business processes and solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate communication between different stakeholders, translating between business needs and technical requirements
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and alternatives
- Documenting functional and non-functional requirements to drive architectural and engineering decisions
- Partner with IT peers such as Product Leadership, Engineering Leadership, and Architects to create requirements and design documentations
- Collaborate and communicate with product areas and their respective feature teams to develop and implement solutions
- Write and maintain documentation which could include descriptions of program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and/or corrections
- Develop comprehensive end-to-end test plans for epics/workstreams to validate feature delivery meets documented requirements
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience developing technical requirements for the implementation of new software
- 2+ years of experience developing test cases for implemented software
- Experience in technical writing and/or software documentation
- Experience working as a liaison between IT professionals and operational stakeholders
- Advanced understanding of database structures, as well as a basic understanding of relationships between applications
- Demonstrated successful implementation of large-scale technology projects
- Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated capability to work independently as well as on a team in both a lead and support role and prioritize work while meeting critical deadlines
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems (MIS) or other related field with an emphasis in MIS
- 4+ years of experience working as a liaison between IT, internal and external business leads and end user community
- Experience working in a health care environment
- Commutable distance to La Crosse, WI
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy