Solution Architect - Finance AI Transformation - Remote

Requisition Number: 2398216
UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
UnitedHealth Group is built on data. Finance sits at the center of it, reconciling membership, revenue, and cost across UnitedHealthcare, Optum Health, Optum Rx, Optum Insight, and Corporate. The Finance AI Transformation (FAIT) program exists to make that data usable: a governed semantic and context layer, ontology-backed products, conversational analytics, and agentic workflows that let Finance leaders ask a question and get a defensible answer.
We are hiring a Solution Architect to design the systems behind that work. This is a build role on a small, senior team with direct exposure to Finance and Technology leadership. You will own delivery from the business problem through production deployment, and you will be accountable for whether what you designed actually works in the hands of Finance users.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Own solution architecture for Finance AI products spanning the semantic and context layer, conversational analytics, agent-based workflows, and forecasting automation; carry designs from concept through first production release
• Translate ambiguous Finance problems in planning, forecasting, management reporting, and close into reference architectures with explicit data contracts, interface definitions, and non-functional requirements
• Design the capability layer for LLM-based Finance agents: tool and function definitions, context retrieval patterns, encoding of business rules and decision logic, output validation, and guardrails; integrate agents to systems of record through the enterprise AI gateway and tool registry
• Define and reconcile business metric and dimensional definitions across segments, working directly with Finance SMEs to resolve conflicting definitions of membership, general ledger structures, and revenue into a single governed semantic model
• Architect layered lakehouse data solutions (bronze / silver / gold) covering ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and cross-platform integration, with automated CI/CD and version control as a default rather than an afterthought
• Serve as the senior technical counterpart to enterprise platform and Technology partners; negotiate ownership boundaries, integration patterns, and shared service dependencies
• Produce architecture artifacts and the executive narrative that goes with them; present design decisions, trade-offs, and risk to senior Finance and Technology leadership, including at the executive level

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 engineering, computer science, analytics, statistics, or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of combined experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or solution architecture
• 2+ years designing and delivering production data solutions on a major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including object storage, serverless compute, workflow orchestration, and managed analytics or ML services
• Advanced SQL or Python; hands-on experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark a nice to have
• Experience designing layered data architectures and operating the pipelines that implement them, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and source control
• Proven ability to work directly with non-technical business stakeholders to elicit requirements and translate them into technical designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in business analytics, engineering, computer science, or a related quantitative field
• Demonstrated experience delivering data or analytics solutions for a Finance or FP&A function, such as planning, forecasting, management reporting, or close and consolidation
• Hands-on experience building with large language models in a production setting, including agent or tool capability design, prompt and context engineering, and output validation
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or comparable standards for agent-to-system integration, and with evaluation frameworks for agent output quality
• Experience with semantic or metrics layer tooling and BI semantic modeling (ThoughtSpot, Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• Experience in healthcare, financial services, or another highly regulated industry
• Familiarity with knowledge graph and ontology technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Stardog, Neo4j) and their application to enterprise data products

*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 $112,700 - $193,200 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 help make the health system work better for everyone. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are 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 and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.