Lead Enterprise Architect

Humana

4d•$142,300 - $195,700•Remote

About The Position

The Lead Enterprise Architect at Humana aligns business vision, technology strategy, and IT portfolio execution to support critical business outcomes and improve member experiences and health outcomes. The role develops technology strategies, supports enterprise modernization, and guides adoption of Humana’s enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and methodologies. It also provides mentorship and guidance to enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects. The architect works with business and technical stakeholders to connect business strategy with value streams, business capabilities, and technology capabilities. The role documents current-state architectures, supports portfolio rationalization, identifies opportunities to innovate and reduce risk, complexity, and operating costs, and defines intermediate and end-state architectures. It also advances cloud platforms and services, evaluates emerging technologies, and develops architecture standards. This is a remote position with occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings. Employees working from home or in a hybrid arrangement must have internet service with at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speed and a dedicated workspace that protects member PHI/HIPAA information.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Progressive experience as a senior application and/or solution architect or technical lead in a large company spanning multiple enterprise systems.
10 or more years of hands-on software application design, development, and testing experience.
3–5 years of experience in cloud technologies, cloud migration, or enterprise architecture.
Expert knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture pattern development and application, cloud architectures, and agile delivery.

Nice To Haves

Associate- or Professional-level solution architecture certification in Azure, GCP, and/or AWS.
2 or more years of project leadership and consulting experience.
Experience with healthcare business domains such as Medicare, Medicaid, Group, and Specialty.

Responsibilities

Advocate for the business within IT and ensure technology execution aligns with business strategy.
Help execute Humana’s Technology Strategy in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies.
Support enterprise technology modernization initiatives with application teams and business and IT stakeholders through architecture guidance and execution support.
Facilitate and drive adoption of lean enterprise architecture practices within an agile delivery framework.
Align and map business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities, and business functions with business and technical teams and leadership.
Document current-state architecture, value streams, and domain capability models with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership.
Apply portfolio rationalization to map coverage among value streams, business capabilities, and technology capabilities, identifying opportunities for innovation and reductions in risk, complexity, and operating costs.
Define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end-state architectures, to align the technology portfolio with identified opportunities and business value.
Enable the continued innovation and evolution of cloud everything-as-a-service, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms, in collaboration with segment and enterprise shared services teams.
Evaluate new technologies and platforms and develop architecture standards to leverage them.
Select and use appropriate cloud services, technologies, tools, methodologies, and solutions to ensure architecture is robust, integrated, and aligned with organizational strategy and long-term objectives.
Mentor and guide enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana.