IT Architecture Analyst - Plymouth, MN, Green Bay, WI, Hartford,

Description 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 Technology 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, Wisconsin and India.
 
IT Architecture Analyst - Plymouth, MN; Green Bay,WI; Hartford, CT; Minneapolis, MN
 
Position Description:
We have unique opportunities for IT Business Analysis Consultants in our newly formed Strategic Planning and Alignment Team - Enterprise Strategic Alignment Center of Excellence and Process Center of Excellence. Our vision is to provide a proactive approach for anticipating and solving business problems and enable the enterprise to effectively, efficiently adapt and transform; resulting in a formal blueprint of governance structures, business semantics, and value streams across the extended enterprise.
 
Primary Responsibility:

• Business Process Modeling to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology
• Provide baseline support for the centralized EA repository and strategic road mapping processes
• Provide maintenance for the communities of practice surrounding Business Process Management and Business Architecture
• Document standards and guidelines on how to unambiguously define and describe business and systemic requirements for information systems projects
• Collaborate across other areas of the Enterprise Architecture team
• Facilitate open communication and fact-based decision making
• Facilitate change and process improvement within software development and business organizations
• Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems
• Perform audits of the enterprise model to continuously improve performance
• May develop business solutions using AquaLogic BPM
• Gather needs, develop reports, run reports to support both ad hoc and repeated requests for EA Information using Casewise
• Collaborate with cross segment teams on best practices, standards, and guidelines and publish findings to shared community of practice sites for the technologies that we steward

Requirements Qualifications:

• 2+ yrs experience with IT Software Design, specifically in a role as a Team Lead/Project Manager, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Modeler (visual representation of how the business functions), or Architect
• Experience participating in business and solution analysis where more than one solution is analyzed for selection
• Experience with at least 2 of the deliverables below have you personally authored in projects (authored not a contributor)
• Business Case
• Program Charter/Vision
• Process Models
• Requirements/ Use Cases 
• Architecture/Design Diagrams
• 1+ yrs experience with (qualified) facilitation experiences including
• Leading analysis
• Requirements
• Design meetings to drive out agreement among stakeholders

Assets:

• Masters Degree
• Healthcare Industry experience
• Knowledge of the UHG Business and IT Landscape.
• Experience  in delivering analysis and analysis models in at least 2 of the following areas: 
• Business Strategy
• Organization
• Process
• Requirements
• Applications
• Data
• Experience with any of the following:
• Business Process Modeling
• Business Process Management
• Business Process Automation

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace.  Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.  In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.