[Hiring] Lead Application Architect @Humana

Role Description

Join our Digital Technology organization as a Lead Application Architect and play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare technology. This role provides strategic architectural leadership across complex enterprise initiatives, driving the design and implementation of scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that improve member, provider, and associate experiences.

As a Lead Application Architect, you will:

• Define architecture strategies and establish engineering standards.
• Guide cross-functional teams in building API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based platforms leveraging Azure cloud technologies.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver resilient, high-performing digital solutions.
• Mentor engineering teams and foster architectural excellence across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture and API design.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud-native development.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms.
• Strong understanding of application integration patterns and distributed systems.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resiliency, and observability best practices.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and influence architecture decisions across multiple programs.

Requirements

• Champion DevSecOps practices and automation across engineering teams.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, security scanning, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to standardize deployment patterns.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies.
• Provide architectural guidance on Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and related automation platforms.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, data, and business teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Influence technology strategy and architecture decisions across multiple initiatives.
• Present architecture recommendations and trade-off analyses to senior leadership.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads on architecture principles and emerging technologies.
• Lead architecture review boards and technical design sessions.
• Ensure solutions adhere to security, compliance, performance, and scalability standards.
• Foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

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 and many other opportunities.