[Hiring] Senior Enterprise Architect @Humana

Role Description

The Senior Enterprise Architect translates business needs into technical systems solutions and architectural roadmaps. The Senior Enterprise Architect work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will serve as a strategic technology leader supporting the organization’s digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives. This role will define target-state architecture, guide complex solution designs, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, architectural governance, and business priorities.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, security partners, business leaders, and vendors to develop scalable, secure, and practical architecture solutions. This position will also create reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, standards, and implementation guidance that enable teams to adopt modern technology efficiently and consistently.

Key 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive 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.

Work at Home Requirements

• Minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and upload speed of 10 Mbps is required.
• Wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

• Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

• 40

Pay Range

• $117,600 - $161,700 per year.
• This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance.

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.