Lead Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Activation

Humana•Louisville, KY

About The Position

The Lead Enterprise Architect in Humana’s Enterprise Architecture Activation unit aligns business strategy with technology strategy to support effective execution of technology plans and adoption of enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and methodologies. The role connects business vision, technology strategy, and IT portfolio execution to improve member experience and health outcomes. The architect defines enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year roadmaps; partners with business and technology leaders to align capabilities, value streams, and investments; and translates strategic priorities into transformation initiatives. The position establishes architecture governance and artifacts, guides architecture reviews, supports agile adoption of architecture practices, and advocates for business needs across technology teams. The role leads modernization and innovation initiatives, including cloud adoption, API-led integration, event-driven architecture, automation, AI strategies, and emerging technologies. It assesses current and future-state architectures, reduces complexity and technical debt, and develops target-state architectures and transition roadmaps. It also applies portfolio rationalization and capability management to guide demand, prioritization, capacity planning, and investment decisions. The position requires substantial enterprise architecture leadership and healthcare payer expertise, including knowledge of health plan operating models and payer domains. The architect collaborates with executive leaders, leads business and technology transformations, and mentors enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects.

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, and scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
Expertise in 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 enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
Align business strategy, value streams, business capabilities, and technology investments with business and technology leaders.
Translate strategic priorities into architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives, balancing strategic goals with delivery needs.
Ensure technology decisions and execution align with business objectives and validate that investments deliver intended value.
Lead architecture experience across healthcare payer domains, including claims, enrollment, eligibility, benefits, provider management, payment integrity, compliance, member and provider experience, and reporting.
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, guide teams through governance, and promote architecture practices within agile delivery frameworks.
Advocate for business needs in the technology organization and lead through influence and collaboration.
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 business and technology solutions.
Document current-state and future-state architectures with architects, engineering teams, and business leaders.
Develop strategies to reduce complexity, technical debt, operational risk, and total cost of ownership.
Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendors to improve agility and operational performance.
Support enterprise-wide cloud adoption and migration initiatives at scale.
Rationalize portfolios by aligning capabilities, value streams, applications, and technology assets; identify gaps, redundancies, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities.
Develop target-state architectures and transition roadmaps that enable business transformation.
Establish planning mechanisms for demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, and investment decisions.
Bring business leadership, operations, project management, IT leadership, architecture, and engineering together around business vision and delivery.
Mentor and guide enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects.