UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.

Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.

Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?

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.   Senior IT Architecture Analyst - Plymouth, MN, Green Bay, WI, Hartford, CT or Minneapolis, MN    Position Description: At UnitedHealth Group, we are a healthy business in more ways than one. We are a Fortune 100 company identified as the first or second most admired company in the health care industry by rankings published in Fortune magazine since 1995. We also have the privilege each day directly or indirectly to make a significant difference in someone's life. Sound like a rare combination? It is. Join us and you'll be inspired to discover your own mix of professional advantages and personal rewards.  UnitedHealth Group IT provides a full range of IT services to UnitedHealth Group (UHG) global business segments. 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 Responsibilities: Model the enterprise and business landscape to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions Collaborate with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions Provide baseline support for the centralized EA repository and strategic road mapping processes Assist in setting standards and guidelines on how to unambiguously define and describe business and systemic requirements for information systems projects Decompose business programs into an actionable set of activities, to include business process modeling, simulation, and validating the business premise Collaborate across other areas of the Enterprise Architecture team Facilitate open communication and fact-based decision making Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems Describe the primary business functions of an enterprise and the pieces of the organization that perform those functions Capture relationships among roles, capabilities, business units; the decomposition of the business units, and management of those units Participate in program and project reviews against roadmaps Provide delivery services associated with the architecture, design, and development support for BPM automation solutions using ALBPM 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 Qualifications: 2+ years 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 2+ years experience in delivering analysis and analysis models in at least 3 of the following areas:  Business Strategy Organization Process Requirements Applications Data Experience with Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management, and/or Business Process Automation Must have experience personally authoring projects (authored not a contributor) with at least 3 of the following:  Business Case Program Charter/Vision Process Models  Requirements/ Use Cases  Architecture/Design Diagrams 1+ yrs experience with coaching and mentoring staff Assets: Master's Degree Experience coaching and mentoring staff Experience with facilitation?  Qualified facilitation experiences include leading analysis, requirements, and/or design meetings to drive out agreement among stakeholders 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.