Senior Technology Leader

Humana • Louisville, KY

1d • $106,900 - $147,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Humana, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology innovator, is seeking Senior Technology Leaders to join their team. This hybrid role focuses on technology strategy, delivery excellence, and cross-functional leadership. The position involves technical consulting, program leadership, and hands-on solution oversight for complex, business-critical technology initiatives. Ideal candidates excel at navigating ambiguity, building alignment, driving accountability, and influencing technical outcomes through credibility and leadership, combined with strong technical depth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or related field
• 5+ years of experience in technology roles, such as software engineering, systems engineering, technical consulting, solution delivery, or similar
• Hands-on experience with technologies used within enterprise applications or infrastructure
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to review, evaluate, and challenge software architecture, application design, integration patterns, and engineering approaches
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex delivery efforts across multiple engineering and business teams
• Experience driving quality assurance, test planning, release readiness, and dependency management activities for large-scale initiatives
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with unit testing, mocking, or validating modern software components
• Proven ability to influence technical decision-making without direct authority through credibility, collaboration, and leadership
• A passion for improving technology through thoughtful leadership

Nice To Haves

• PMP certification
• Six Sigma certification
• MBA or another advanced degree
• Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs
• Background in technology solution assessments, strategy planning, or enterprise consulting

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end planning and execution of complex technology initiatives, aligning engineering, product, architecture, and business teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions.
• Assess systems, architectures, designs, and delivery approaches; identify modernization and optimization opportunities; and provide actionable recommendations that influence technical and business strategy.
• Constructively challenge design decisions, implementation approaches, technical tradeoffs, and delivery risks while fostering productive collaboration with development teams.
• Operate as a force multiplier across engineering, quality, product, architecture, and operations teams.
• Step into critical delivery functions as needed to coordinate testing efforts, manage cross-team dependencies, remove execution roadblocks, and ensure alignment across complex initiatives.
• Act as a key owner for driving outcomes, even when authority is distributed across multiple teams.
• Oversee validation, testing, integration, and deployment readiness, ensuring solutions meet functional, non-functional, security, and compliance requirements before production launch.
• Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, drive root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution efforts that protect system stability and business continuity.
• Facilitate communication across engineering, operations, product, and business leadership, ensuring risks, dependencies, and decisions are surfaced clearly and managed effectively.
• Lead the adoption of enterprise-grade AI capabilities across the software development lifecycle.
• Promote the use of tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and other emerging enterprise AI solutions to accelerate development, improve documentation quality, enhance knowledge sharing, streamline testing, and support modernization initiatives.
• Identify opportunities where AI can increase engineering productivity and delivery effectiveness while maintaining governance, quality, and security standards.
• Establish and refine delivery processes, documentation standards, and best practices that elevate execution quality across teams and programs.

Benefits

• Generous PTO package
• Health benefits effective day 1
• Annual Incentive Plan
• 401K - Excellent company match
• Well-being program
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance

What This Job Offers

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