Lead Solutions Architect

Humana • Louisville, KY

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

Humana is looking for a Lead Solutions Architect to join our Fortune #40, Best Places to Work company and help us make a difference as we help our members achieve their best health! The Lead Solutions Architect works with user groups to solve business problems with available technology including hardware, software, databases, and peripherals. The Lead Solutions Architect works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. As Lead Solution Architect, you will be the senior individual contributor within a team responsible for Humana's interoperability portfolio. This portfolio encompasses the integration of data with external entities using industry interoperability standards such as FHIR and HL7. It also includes the system of record for all medical records, with data supporting critical initiatives such as HEDIS, risk adjustment, and enterprise AI across a variety of use cases. In this role, you will own the architectural vision for complex, multi-system projects, influence technology decision-making processes, and bridge the gap between business strategy, engineering execution, and adherence to enterprise standards. Your leadership will help ensure Humana's interoperability solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with organizational goals and industry best practices. As Lead Solution Architect, you will oversee solution design for initiatives within the interoperability portfolio, translating complex requirements—including CMS interoperability compliance regulations—into cohesive and scalable architectural frameworks. You will collaborate closely with engineering leads, product managers, interoperability and clinical stakeholders, as well as vendor partners, to ensure that technical decisions support desired business outcomes and are aligned with long-term strategic objectives. In addition, you will represent the architecture function in governance forums and executive reviews, articulating design rationale and ensuring adherence to enterprise standards. Your responsibilities also include converting high-level architectural blueprints into detailed designs that serve as actionable guides for engineering teams to implement robust and compliant solutions. Lead solution architect is also responsible for continuous collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Information Protection, Data Governance and other domains to make sure that interoperability solutions are align with enterprise IT strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 12+ years total of progressive IT systems delivery experience
• 5+ years of application development experience
• 5+ years of application architecture / leadership experience
• 8+ years of large program delivery experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in solutions architecture around API based integrations.
• Proven track record of large-scale applications modernization / technology transformation program deliveries inclusive of on-prem, public cloud, private cloud and/or Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
• Technical experience must include use of NoSQL databases, microservices, service mesh, data modeling, data architecture (document, relational and graph), Databricks, API Management Platforms, high availability/resilience design.
• Architecture, designing, development, and maintaining end to end data integration, operational data store, data analytics solutions.
• In-depth knowledge and experience on integration patterns, data analysis, emerging ELT/ETL tools on cloud platforms and event driven architecture around data
• Cloud certification Azure/GCP
• Experience working in Scrum/Agile setup

Nice To Haves

• Kubernetes, Containerization skills
• Kafka - event driven solution development skills
• Experience in designing data solutions, integrations for handling large volumes of data
• Good understanding of healthcare data e.g., member, provider, claims and clinical data
• Experience and understanding of data governance practices around healthcare data
• Experience on CI/CD, DevOps tools
• Knowledge on HL7 FHIR standards
• Knowledge on FHIR standard based interoperability for payers, CMS compliance around interoperability.
• Experience in payer, provider data exchange with EHR and other third-party integrators.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural vision for complex, multi-system projects.
• Influence technology decision-making processes.
• Bridge the gap between business strategy, engineering execution, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Ensure Humana's interoperability solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Oversee solution design for initiatives within the interoperability portfolio, translating complex requirements—including CMS interoperability compliance regulations—into cohesive and scalable architectural frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leads, product managers, interoperability and clinical stakeholders, as well as vendor partners, to ensure that technical decisions support desired business outcomes and are aligned with long-term strategic objectives.
• Represent the architecture function in governance forums and executive reviews, articulating design rationale and ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.
• Convert high-level architectural blueprints into detailed designs that serve as actionable guides for engineering teams to implement robust and compliant solutions.
• Continuously collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Information Protection, Data Governance and other domains to make sure that interoperability solutions are align with enterprise IT strategy.

Benefits

• Generous PTO package
• Health benefits effective day 1
• Annual Incentive Plan
• 401K - Excellent company match
• Well-being program
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Student Loan Refinancing
• medical, dental and 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior