[Hiring] Associate Director Engineering @Humana

Role Description

The Associate Director, Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) is a senior technology leader responsible for advancing Humana's enterprise performance engineering capabilities. This role leads a centralized team of performance engineers that provides:

• Performance testing
• Analysis
• Workload modeling
• Capacity planning
• Resilience testing
• Performance consulting services across a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions

This leader will help establish performance engineering as a strategic capability that enables application teams to deliver scalable, resilient, highly available, and high-performing solutions that meet business and customer expectations. The position requires significant experience in:

• Enterprise application performance testing
• Cloud performance engineering
• Observability platforms
• AI application performance validation
• Modern distributed architectures

This role partners closely with various teams to ensure systems are designed, tested, monitored, and optimized for performance at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, performance engineering, quality engineering, or related disciplines
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or performance engineering teams
• Proven experience leading performance testing engagements for large-scale enterprise applications
• Hands-on experience with enterprise performance testing tools such as LoadRunner Enterprise, BlazeMeter, Apache JMeter, Performance Center
• Strong expertise in performance analysis, capacity planning, workload modeling, and application tuning
• Experience optimizing performance across web applications, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, databases
• Strong understanding of Java, REST APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture patterns
• Hands-on experience with performance monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, partner across organizations, and remain hands-on in technical problem solving

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries (preferred)
• Experience testing Generative AI applications, AI platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-based solutions (preferred)
• Experience with AWS and Azure cloud architectures (preferred)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering practices (preferred)
• Familiarity with chaos engineering, resilience testing, and fault injection techniques (preferred)
• Experience helping establish or mature enterprise-wide performance engineering practices or centers of excellence (preferred)
• Experience supporting digital transformation and cloud modernization initiatives (preferred)
• Relevant certifications in cloud, performance engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (preferred)

Benefits

• 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
• Many other opportunities

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$142,300 - $195,700 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

Work at Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service must meet the following criteria:

• Minimum download speed of 25 Mbps
• Minimum upload speed of 10 Mbps
• Wireless, wired cable, or DSL connection is suggested

In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Application Deadline

10-12-2026

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.