# Software Engineering Leader **Company**: Humana **Location**: Chicago, IL **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $129,400 - $177,900 per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Chicago-IL/Manager--Full-Stack-Engineering_R-437051?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/software-engineering-leader-38394ae6-c9d/ ## Description We are seeking a Software Engineering Leader to oversee full-stack development across two health plan technology environments. As a leader, you will partner with other deliver leaders to drive modernization, improve reliability and security, reduce technical debt, and help prepare systems for future enterprise migration. Responsibilities: - Lead people with empathy, kindness, honesty, and genuine care - Bring visible energy, optimism, curiosity, and engagement to the team - Coach and develop engineers through specific feedback, meaningful stretch opportunities, career conversations, and consistent follow-through - Lead people through the human and technical sides of change - Create a team environment that is demanding, supportive, inclusive, and human - Handle hard conversations directly and respectfully - Design, build, enhance, and modernize applications, APIs, integrations, and services across multiple technology platforms - Remain highly engaged in hands-on software engineering, including coding, architecture, debugging, testing, and code reviews - Learn in the open and model intellectual humility - Establish engineering practices and maintain high standards for software quality, security, maintainability, reliability, and performance - Drive modernization, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, and platform optimization across two health plan technology environments - Partner with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and peer engineering leaders to define solutions, make trade-offs visible, and set delivery priorities - Advance DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and operational practices that help the team deliver safely and learn quickly - Lead the adoption of AI-enabled engineering as a core team capability - Build the team's ability to use autonomous agentic engineering responsibly - Support technology strategies that prepare legacy systems for future migration to enterprise platforms - Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, privacy, accessibility, and healthcare regulatory requirements Requirements: - Demonstrated experience leading software engineers as people, not simply directing their work - A leadership approach grounded in empathy, kindness, trust, accountability, and genuine interest in people as individuals - A dynamic and engaging leadership presence - Evidence of helping teams remain motivated and connected during difficult work, ambiguity, competing priorities, or sustained delivery pressure - Experience leading significant technology change while addressing both the technical work and the human impact - Strong self-awareness and emotional maturity - Experience building trust across different personalities, working styles, backgrounds, and levels of confidence - The judgment to bring optimism, humor, and levity into the workplace naturally and appropriately - Current hands-on full-stack engineering experience - Sound engineering judgment and genuine intellectual humility - Evidence of creating a learning culture where experiments, incomplete ideas, mistakes, and lessons are discussed openly - An early-adopter mindset toward AI-enabled engineering - Experience using or leading engineering work with coding agents, multi-agent workflows, or autonomous agentic development - Experience designing and delivering secure, reliable applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based services using modern software engineering and DevSecOps practices - Clear written and verbal communication skills - Experience partnering across engineering, architecture, product, security, operations, and business teams to move complex work from idea through production support Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with Microsoft .NET technologies, Azure services, Dynamics 365, GitHub or Azure DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure software delivery - Experience modernizing legacy applications and integrations while supporting active business operations - Experience in healthcare, Medicaid, regulated environments, or technology supporting multiple business entities or health plans - Practical experience introducing AI-enabled engineering into software delivery What Success Looks Like: - People know their leader cares about them, understands what motivates them, and will be honest with them - Engineers can explain what they're building, why it matters, and how their work connects to the people and business they support - Team members receive specific coaching, take on larger challenges, and can point to how their leader helped them grow - The team stays connected and purposeful through technical change, uncertainty, and delivery pressure - Meetings and working sessions have energy - Technical decisions are thoughtful, transparent, and shared - The leader learns visibly - The team delivers secure, reliable solutions while steadily reducing technical debt and improving engineering practices - AI-enabled engineering is part of how the team works - People experience the team as demanding in the right ways, supportive when it matters, and human enough that hard work doesn't have to feel joyless For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - .NET - Azure - Dynamics 365 - DevOps - AI-enabled engineering - autonomous agentic engineering - coding agents - multi-agent workflows - cloud-based services - security - compliance - privacy - accessibility - healthcare regulatory requirements ### Nice to have - Microsoft .NET technologies - Azure services - GitHub or Azure DevOps - CI/CD - automated testing - 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