Lead Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Activation

Humana•Boston, MA

5d•$142,300 - $195,700

About The Position

The Lead Enterprise Architect in Humana’s Enterprise Architecture Activation unit aligns business strategy with technology strategy and IT portfolio execution. The role develops enterprise architecture direction and enables effective delivery and adoption of architecture principles, standards, policies, and methodologies, with the goal of improving member experience and health outcomes. This position serves as a business advocate within IT, bringing business leadership, operations, project management, IT leadership, architecture, and engineering together to deliver the business vision. The architect leads enterprise transformation and modernization, guides portfolio and capability planning, and works with executive, business, and technology stakeholders to ensure technology investments support organizational goals. The role also mentors enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
Extensive experience in enterprise architecture leadership roles within large, complex organizations.
Deep healthcare payer industry experience and strong understanding of health plan operating models and business processes.
Progressive experience as a senior architect, lead architect, or technology leader overseeing large-scale enterprise initiatives.
Proven success leading business and technology transformation programs.
Experience collaborating with executive leadership and influencing strategic decision-making.
Deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks, practices, and governance.
Strong solution architecture background spanning multiple business and technology domains.
Expertise in enterprise integration patterns, application modernization and refactoring, system decomposition, API and event-driven architectures, cloud-native architectures, hybrid cloud environments, scalable and fault-tolerant systems, data and information architecture, and AI and emerging technology strategies.
Experience creating enterprise technology strategies, reference architectures, and multi-year roadmaps.
Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Nice To Haves

Architectural guidance for initiatives supporting Medicare, Medicaid, and specialty insurance products.
Experience with Medicare Advantage and supplemental plans.
Healthcare information technology experience.
Experience with regulatory and compliance programs.
Deep understanding of healthcare payer industry trends, regulations, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year technology roadmap.
Partner with business and technology leaders to align business strategy, value streams, business capabilities, and technology investments.
Translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives while balancing strategic goals with delivery realities and evolving business needs.
Ensure technology decisions and execution align with business objectives, and validate that investments deliver intended business value.
Lead architecture experience across healthcare payer domains, including claims, enrollment and eligibility, benefits and products, provider management, payment integrity, regulatory compliance, member and provider experience, and data and analytics.
Advocate for business needs within the technology organization and establish and evolve enterprise architecture governance, standards, policies, reference architectures, and methodologies.
Create and maintain architecture artifacts, capability models, technology inventories, and roadmaps; facilitate architecture reviews and guide teams through governance processes.
Promote enterprise architecture practices within agile delivery frameworks and lead through influence, collaboration, and persuasion.
Define and communicate enterprise technology and AI architecture vision and roadmaps.
Drive modernization using cloud, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, automation, and emerging technologies.
Lead cross-functional teams in designing and delivering transformative business and technology solutions; collaborate on documenting current- and future-state architectures.
Develop technology strategies that reduce complexity, technical debt, operational risk, and total cost of ownership; evaluate technologies, platforms, and vendors to improve agility and performance.
Support enterprise-wide cloud adoption and migration initiatives at scale.
Apply portfolio rationalization practices to align business capabilities, value streams, applications, and technology assets; identify gaps, redundancies, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities.
Develop target-state architectures and transition roadmaps, and establish planning mechanisms for demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, and investment decisions.
Bring business and technology stakeholders together to deliver critical business outcomes and use the IT portfolio to improve member experience and health outcomes, create competitive advantages, and reduce operational risk and operating costs.
Mentor and guide enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana.