Senior Technology Leader

Humana•Nashville, TN

1d•$106,900 - $147,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Humana, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology innovator, we are reshaping how millions of people experience care. Our Senior Technology Leaders operate at the intersection of technology strategy, delivery excellence, and cross-functional leadership. This hybrid role blends technical consulting, program leadership, and hands-on solution oversight to ensure successful delivery of complex, business-critical technology initiatives. If you excel at navigating ambiguity, building alignment, driving accountability, and influencing technical outcomes through credibility and leadership while bringing strong technical depth, this role is built for you.

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

Lead Cross-Functional Technology Delivery: 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.
Serve as a Technical Consultant, Technical Challenger & Trusted Advisor: Assess systems, architectures, designs, and delivery approaches; identify modernization and optimization opportunities; and provide actionable recommendations that influence technical and business strategy. Bring sufficient engineering and architectural depth to constructively challenge design decisions, implementation approaches, technical tradeoffs, and delivery risks while fostering productive collaboration with development teams.
Drive Cross-Team Execution & Delivery Coordination: 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.
Ensure Quality, Performance & Operational Readiness: Oversee validation, testing, integration, and deployment readiness, ensuring solutions meet functional, non-functional, security, and compliance requirements before production launch.
Guide Issue Resolution & Technical Problem Solving: Partner with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, drive root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution efforts that protect system stability and business continuity.
Align Delivery Teams & Stakeholders: Facilitate communication across engineering, operations, product, and business leadership, ensuring risks, dependencies, and decisions are surfaced clearly and managed effectively.
Champion AI-Enabled Delivery & Modernization: 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.
Promote Delivery Excellence & Continuous Improvement: 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, dental and 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