AVP, Enterprise Platform Software Engineering

Humana • New York, MA

1d • $208,500 - $286,700 • Remote

About The Position

Become a part of our caring community The Associate VP, Software Engineering codes software applications based on business requirements. The Associate VP, Software Engineering requires a in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across segments and/or enterprise-wide. Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that power exceptional member and provider experiences. The Associate Vice President, Enterprise Platform Software Engineering will join a high-performing, innovative technology organization focused on quality excellence. This leader will define and advance Humana’s enterprise quality engineering platform capabilities—spanning automation-first engineering, AI-enabled quality intelligence, quality architecture, and standards that enable teams across the enterprise to deliver software with greater speed, reliability, and confidence. This role serves as the strategic owner of the quality engineering ecosystem and enablement model, partnering closely with Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and segment/product technology leaders to deliver scalable, reusable capabilities that improve engineering effectiveness and business outcomes.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, platform engineering, and developer enablement.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling enterprise platforms or shared engineering enablement capabilities.
• Proven success driving enterprise adoption of standardized tools, patterns, and ways of working across distributed organizations.
• Experience leading senior leaders and geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Expertise with quality engineering practices across API, UI, integration, and end-to-end validation in distributed/cloud-native environments.
• Experience with quality data, engineering metrics, dashboards/scorecards, and operational insights for executive and delivery audiences.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence outcomes across engineering and product organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, enterprise test harnesses, or quality engineering platforms at scale.
• Familiarity with microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native engineering patterns.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and intelligent automation in enterprise delivery environments.
• Familiarity with engineering effectiveness and operational excellence measurement approaches (e.g., DORA-aligned signals), platform adoption metrics, and quality maturity models.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for quality engineering platforms, frameworks, and enablement capabilities.
• Establish and drive a multi-year roadmap aligned to Humana’s technology strategy and software delivery priorities.
• Standardize quality engineering tools, patterns, and practices to reduce fragmentation and improve consistency at scale.
• Serve as the executive owner for enterprise shared quality engineering platform services and adoption outcomes.
• Lead strategy, development, and continuous evolution of Humana’s Quality Engineering Platform as a core enablement capability for delivery teams.
• Establish platform capabilities that support reusable automation frameworks, accelerators, and engineering patterns across teams.
• Enable data-driven quality intelligence through integrated dashboards, scorecards, and reporting that provide visibility into quality and delivery health.
• Drive end-to-end traceability across requirements, test assets, automation, defects, releases, and production outcomes (where supported by enterprise tooling).
• Advance AI-enabled quality capabilities (e.g., intelligent automation, quality insights, predictive analytics) as part of the platform strategy and day-to-day operating model.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and strong user experience for engineers and quality professionals.
• Define and maintain enterprise quality engineering standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
• Partner with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams to embed quality controls and scalable validation approaches into modern delivery pipelines.
• Establish guardrails for cloud-native and distributed architectures (e.g., microservices, APIs, event-driven systems) including test strategy patterns and quality controls.
• Partner with segment/product-aligned quality engineering leaders to drive platform adoption and consistent execution of standards and patterns.
• Provide consulting, coaching, and enablement to engineering organizations to accelerate maturity in modern quality engineering practices.
• Build reusable training, playbooks, and onboarding approaches that improve adoption and reduce time-to-productivity.
• Partner with enterprise enablement and governance teams to shape and evolve enterprise quality metrics, measurement standards, and reporting approaches.
• Ensure platform capabilities support consistent collection and visibility of enterprise quality signals.
• Drive adherence to enterprise governance expectations across platform usage, standards adoption, and quality reporting.
• Build and develop a high-performing organization of quality architects, platform engineers, automation leaders, and quality engineering professionals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Create career development pathways and succession depth for enterprise quality engineering platform and enablement roles.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed