Sr Enterprise Architect

Humana•Louisville, KY

1d•$117,600 - $161,700•Remote

About The Position

Humana’s Enterprise Architecture unit aligns business and technology strategy to support effective technology execution and deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes. The Senior Enterprise Architect helps align business vision, technology strategy, and enterprise standards, contributing to critical business outcomes and technology strategies. The role also provides mentorship and guidance to enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana. This position supports enterprise technology modernization, application modernization, cloud adoption, architecture governance, portfolio rationalization, and the maintenance of technology standards and policies. It works with business and technical stakeholders to document architecture and capabilities, identify opportunities to reduce risk, complexity, and operating costs, and guide application teams through implementation and governance processes. This is a remote position limited to a specific geography: Louisville, Kentucky. Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings may be required. Employees must have a dedicated workspace that protects member PHI/HIPAA information and internet service with at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speeds. The scheduled workweek is 40 hours.

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.
At least 10 years of experience in software application design, development, and testing.
Expertise in all SDLC activities, including ideation, design, implementation, validation of functional and non-functional aspects, and Day 2 operations.
Expert knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture pattern development and application, cloud-native architectures, and agile delivery.
Proficiency in evaluating multiple tools and selecting the tool best suited to organizational needs.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
Associate- or professional-level solution architecture certification in Azure, GCP, and/or AWS.
Three to five years of experience in cloud technologies, cloud migration, or enterprise architecture.
Familiarity with or certification in architectural frameworks such as TOGAF.
Experience with various CI/CD quality drivers and implementation approaches.
Expertise in enterprise architecture repository tools such as iServer.
At least two years of project leadership and consulting experience.
Experience with healthcare business domains such as Medicare, Medicaid, Group, or Specialty.

Responsibilities

Advocate for the business within IT and ensure technology execution aligns with business strategy.
Help ensure Humana’s Technology Strategy is executed in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies.
Engage in enterprise technology modernization initiatives with application teams and business and IT stakeholders, providing architecture guidance and execution support.
Mentor pattern-based development with a focus on resource and cost optimization.
Promote, facilitate, and drive adoption of lean enterprise architecture practices within an agile delivery framework.
Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to map business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities, and business functions.
Work with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to document current-state architecture, value streams, and domain capability models.
Apply portfolio rationalization to document coverage across value streams, business capabilities, and technology capabilities, and identify opportunities for innovation and reductions in risk, complexity, and total cost of operations.
Collaborate with technical teams and leadership to define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end-state architectures, aligned with portfolio rationalization opportunities and business strategy.
Lead application modernization initiatives, including rearchitecting legacy mainframe, stand-alone, and web-based applications to enterprise architecture standards.
Enable innovation and evolution of cloud everything-as-a-service, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms, in collaboration with segment and enterprise shared-services teams.
Maintain standards and policies, revalidate them against current trends and best practices, and socialize them through user-friendly documentation.
Create application cost models and dashboards based on resource utilization and licensing costs, and help application teams determine total cost of ownership and plan for future needs.
Evaluate new technologies and platforms for continuous improvement and develop architecture standards for their use.
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 application teams on enterprise data use standards and help address non-functional needs such as logging, auditing, and end-to-end observability.
Support application teams through enterprise governance processes and provide hands-on support to enable successful implementation.