Lead Solutions Architect - CWP

Humana • Dallas, TX

1d • Remote

About The Position

As Lead Solution Architect, you'll be the senior individual contributor on a team with broad accountability across CenterWell's dispensing pharmacy portfolio — mail order, specialty, retail, and associated platforms. You'll own the architectural vision for complex, multi-system initiatives, shape how technology decisions get made, and act as a connective force between business strategy, engineering execution, and enterprise standards. This is not a role for someone who wants to stay in their lane. You'll be expected to move fluidly between deep technical work and executive-level conversation, between greenfield design and legacy modernization, and between long-term roadmap thinking and hands-on problem solving. You'll lead solution design for major initiatives across the pharmacy business, translating complex operational requirements into coherent, scalable architectures. You'll work closely with engineering leads, product managers, clinical stakeholders, and vendor partners to ensure technical decisions are sound, defensible, and aligned to long-term goals. You'll represent the architecture function in governance forums and executive reviews. Specifically, you can expect to spend your time on: defining and maintaining architectural patterns and standards for the pharmacy technology portfolio; leading architecture for high-complexity programs spanning dispensing systems, clinical platforms, integrations, and data; evaluating build/buy/partner decisions and presenting recommendations to senior leadership; navigating ambiguity — organizational, technical, and political — and bringing clarity where others see noise; and contributing to the team's overall ways of working, tooling, and maturity.

Requirements

• Deep roots in software engineering — you've written code, you understand why architectural decisions carry the weight they do, and you can engage credibly with engineers at every level.
• Thinks in systems: how components interact, where complexity accumulates, and how to design for change rather than just for today.
• Comfortable in complex enterprise environments.
• Knows how to read an organization, find the right stakeholders, and build the coalitions that actually move technical decisions forward.
• Doesn't wait for perfect information, but knows when a decision needs more rigor.
• Demonstrated experience with solution or enterprise architecture on large, matrixed programs.
• Demonstrated experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences and business strategy to engineers without losing either audience.
• Demonstrated experience holding your own alongside consulting partners and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience in cloud native design and application modernization.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards — HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, or other similar standards.
• Experience being technical lead of a team.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare or highly regulated industries, with pharmacy, PBM, or clinical systems experience a meaningful advantage.
• Integration patterns, cloud-native design, data architecture, and application modernization.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards — HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, and related — is a plus, though not a prerequisite.
• Experience in the Pharmacy space (PBM, Pharma manufacture, Dispensing pharmacy).
• Experience on a solution or enterprise architecture team.
• Experience designing a large-scale event-driven ecosystem.
• Azure or GCP certification.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining architectural patterns and standards for the pharmacy technology portfolio
• Leading architecture for high-complexity programs spanning dispensing systems, clinical platforms, integrations, and data
• Evaluating build/buy/partner decisions and presenting recommendations to senior leadership
• Navigating ambiguity — organizational, technical, and political — and bringing clarity where others see noise
• Contributing to the team's overall ways of working, tooling, and maturity

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• 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
• Bonus incentive plan
• Bi-weekly payment for internet expense (for employees in California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota)
• Telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job

What This Job Offers

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