# Lead Application Architect

**Company**: Humana Inc.
**Location**: New York, NY
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,200 - $213,400 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Lead Application Architect serves as a strategic technical leader within the Test Data Management (TDM) organization, responsible for designing and advancing enterprise-scale solutions that enable secure, compliant, and efficient use of test data across Humana.

This role drives architecture and solution design for data de-identification, artificial test data generation, test data delivery, data governance, audit controls, self-service platforms, and non-production environment services.

The Lead Application Architect works on highly complex initiatives that span multiple business and technology domains, partnering with engineering teams, application owners, security, compliance, and enterprise architecture to deliver innovative and scalable solutions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise Test Data Management solutions supporting data de-identification, artificial test data generation, test data delivery, production data leakage detection, and self-service platform capabilities.

- Design scalable, secure, and reusable solutions that support Quality Engineering, application development, and enterprise testing needs across multiple business and technology domains.

- Develop architecture patterns and reusable capabilities that support the phased expansion of enterprise Test Data Management services across all Humana segments.

- Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and technical frameworks that promote consistency, maintainability, and operational excellence.

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for cloud, distributed, database, API, and mainframe-integrated solutions.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to continuously improve enterprise TDM capabilities.

**Technical Leadership & Engineering Enablement:**

- Partner with engineers, product owners, infrastructure teams, and application stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

- Lead architecture reviews, solution design sessions, and technical assessments for complex TDM initiatives.

- Support development teams during implementation by providing technical oversight, mentoring, and guidance on architecture decisions.

- Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and automation across TDM services and platforms.

- Contribute to the technical strategy and long-term evolution of Humana's enterprise Test Data Management platform.

**Artificial Test Data & Data Management Solutions:**

- Drive solution design for artificial test data generation capabilities that enable realistic, reusable, and compliant testing datasets.

- Architect solutions that support data privacy, data protection, and secure handling of sensitive information within non-production environments.

- Design reusable services and platform capabilities that streamline test data provisioning and improve accessibility for application teams.

- Support implementation of data quality, monitoring, and operational controls that improve platform effectiveness and user experience.

- Partner with application teams to support adoption of enterprise TDM capabilities and onboarding of new applications and business segments.

**Stakeholder Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:**

- Collaborate with Quality Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Product teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and objectives.

- Serve as a trusted technical advisor for complex test data management initiatives and enterprise platform enhancements.

- Facilitate alignment between business objectives, technical requirements, and platform capabilities.

- Contribute to continuous improvement efforts through automation, modernization, and reusable solution design.

- Maintain awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies related to test data management, data privacy, artificial test data generation, and enterprise platform engineering.

**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

## Skills

### Required
- application architecture
- data engineering
- software engineering
- enterprise technology solutions
- data architecture
- data integration
- databases
- APIs
- distributed systems
- data privacy
- data governance
- data protection
- de-identification
- regulatory compliance frameworks

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