Senior Enterprise Architect

Humana•Work at Home - Kentucky, KY

3d•$117,600 - $161,700•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Enterprise Architect translates business needs into technical systems solutions and architectural roadmaps. The role serves as a strategic technology leader supporting digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives. It defines target-state architecture, guides complex solution designs, and ensures technology decisions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, architectural governance, and business priorities. The Senior Enterprise Architect collaborates with application and infrastructure teams, security partners, business leaders, and vendors to develop scalable, secure, and practical architecture solutions. The position creates reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, standards, and implementation guidance so teams can adopt modern technology efficiently and consistently. It involves moderately complex to complex work requiring in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
10 or more years of experience in application design, software development, systems engineering, or technology architecture.
Progressive experience as an enterprise architect, solution architect, cloud architect, senior technical lead, or similar role.
Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise applications, platforms, or technology domains.
Experience with cloud, hybrid-cloud, application modernization, or legacy-system transformation initiatives.
Experience developing target-state architecture, solution designs, technology roadmaps, and reference architectures.
Strong knowledge of scalability, resiliency, security, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
Experience with enterprise integration technologies, including APIs, web services, messaging, or event-driven architecture.
Experience applying architecture governance, information security requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
Strong analytical, technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills.
Ability to independently lead complex architecture initiatives and influence decisions across teams.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
Experience designing or governing solutions in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or another major cloud environment.
Relevant cloud or architecture certification, such as Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or TOGAF.
Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, application rationalization, or enterprise integration planning.
Experience with microservices, containers, serverless technologies, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices.
Experience developing architecture standards and reusable solutions adopted across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
Lead architecture planning for complex enterprise, cloud, application modernization, and integration initiatives.
Guide teams in designing, building, modernizing, and migrating applications and services to cloud environments.
Establish reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, standards, playbooks, and technical guardrails.
Evaluate technologies, products, and services for scalability, security, interoperability, cost, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, design discussions, and proofs of concept.
Identify technical risks, dependencies, design trade-offs, and modernization opportunities.
Ensure solutions comply with architecture, governance, security, data-management, and technology standards.
Provide technical guidance throughout implementation and confirm that delivered solutions align with approved designs.
Partner with business leaders, engineers, architects, security teams, and vendors to establish priorities and resolve technical challenges.
Present architecture recommendations, risks, and strategic options to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Provide thought leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to architects, developers, and engineering teams.