Lead Application Architect

Humana•Tennessee, TN

1d•Remote

About The Position

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first Humana is seeking a Lead Application Architect that designs and develops IT applications using architectural solutions that solve business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. The successful candidate will work on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. The Lead Application Architect will design technical solutions and provide technical leadership to the team. Responsibilities: Define project-level application architectures in line with business area guidelines and strategies. Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns for projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise. Define detailed technical designs usable by project team Engineers Containerized workload using Docker or Kubernetes Leads multiple initiatives with a variety of teams, providing guidance and oversight of both design and execution. Review code developed by Developers to ensure code is consistent with architecture design. Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution. Provide day-to-day technical direction to project team while also prioritizing and resolving technical issues affecting the deliverables, escalating technical issues when required. Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions. Influences and adheres to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring integration technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to architecture strategy-setting. Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Work with Business, support or development teams in recommending process or system enhancements, including those that would minimize maintenance costs. You have the ability to maintain a high-level view as well as the ability to get into the details as needed on initiatives to help teams prioritize goals so that they can work most effectively, through weekly meetings and daily communication Use your skills to make an impact

Requirements

13+ years of IT experience in Software development supporting customer-facing and internal application
Experience with Java, JEE, JSP, jQuery, Spring, Spring Boot (Microservices), Rest Services, Spring JPA, REST, JSON, JUnit, JavaScript, REACT, TypeScript and XML
Extensive hands-on experience with backend technologies including: Microservices architecture, Java
Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
Experience in streaming services like Kafka
Good Understanding on DB concepts (Sql and noSql)
Ability to effectively communicate, influence and drive consensus between the business, technology teams and executive leadership in an organization with multiple lines of business
Knowledge of the Agile methodologies
Ability to consider QA and Security needs as part of the overall architecture of a system
Knowledge of Containerized workload using Docker or Kubernetes
Experienced in cloud technologies
Proficiency using standard desktop applications such as MS Suite and flowcharting tools such as Visio.
Lifelong learner and practitioner of new technologies in alignment with IT strategies
Experience and understanding with unit testing, release procedures, coding, design and documentation protocol as well as change management procedures.
Practitioner of Project Management Methodologies (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile)

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Cloud-native storage, Serverless technology, React and NodeJs
Knowledge of NoSql DB

Responsibilities

Define project-level application architectures in line with business area guidelines and strategies.
Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns for projects.
Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
Define detailed technical designs usable by project team
Engineers Containerized workload using Docker or Kubernetes
Leads multiple initiatives with a variety of teams, providing guidance and oversight of both design and execution.
Review code developed by Developers to ensure code is consistent with architecture design.
Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
Provide day-to-day technical direction to project team while also prioritizing and resolving technical issues affecting the deliverables, escalating technical issues when required.
Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
Influences and adheres to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring integration technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to architecture strategy-setting.
Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.
Work with Business, support or development teams in recommending process or system enhancements, including those that would minimize maintenance costs.
You have the ability to maintain a high-level view as well as the ability to get into the details as needed on initiatives to help teams prioritize goals so that they can work most effectively, through weekly meetings and daily communication

Benefits

Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families.
We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:
Health benefits effective day 1
Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
Recognition pay
401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
Tuition assistance
Scholarships for eligible dependents
Parental and caregiver leave
Employee charity matching program
Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
Career development opportunities