# Lead Technology Leadership Professional **Company**: Humana Inc. **Location**: Louisville, KY, KY **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $117,600 - $161,700 per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Louisville-KY/Lead-Technology-Leadership-Professional_R-435369-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/lead-technology-leadership-professional-4e049260-4d2/ ## Description The Lead Technology Leadership Professional provides strategic leadership and deep technical expertise to drive application reliability, observability, and operational excellence across enterprise-scale platforms. This role partners closely with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and business teams to ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives. **Key Responsibilities** - Provide strategic and technical leadership for enterprise applications and technology operations, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. - Lead product validation, qualification, and production readiness activities to ensure compliance, quality, and operational requirements are met before release. - Partner with engineering, infrastructure, cloud, security, manufacturing, quality, and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions aligned with organizational objectives. - Serve as a senior technical advisor, driving resolution of complex production, application, and operational challenges. - Establish and promote best practices for Application Reliability & Operations Engineering, including observability, incident management, problem management, resiliency, and continuous improvement. - Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of monitoring and observability solutions using Splunk and related technologies. - Drive automation initiatives leveraging Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, AI, and Generative AI to improve operational efficiency, troubleshooting, and engineering productivity. - Evaluate emerging technologies and develop recommendations that balance technical requirements, business priorities, risk, and long-term strategy. - Improve application performance, availability, disaster recovery readiness, capacity planning, and operational resilience across cloud and on-premises environments. - Collaborate with cybersecurity, risk, governance, and data privacy teams to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards. - Analyze operational metrics, system performance, and telemetry data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for optimization. - Influence technical direction and architectural decisions across multiple teams and technology domains. - Mentor and guide engineering teams in adopting modern operational practices, observability standards, and automation capabilities. - Communicate technical strategies, risks, and recommendations effectively to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders. - Lead continuous improvement initiatives that drive measurable business outcomes, service reliability, and operational efficiency. **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. - 10+ years of experience supporting, engineering, or leading enterprise-scale applications, platforms, or technology operations. - 5+ years of experience leading large-scale technology initiatives, reliability engineering programs, observability functions, or operational excellence initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders. - Strong understanding of Application Reliability & Operations Engineering, including application availability, resiliency, observability, operational readiness, incident management, problem management, automation, and continuous improvement. - Hands-on experience with Enterprise Observability platforms, including 5+ years of experience with Splunk, covering architecture, data ingestion, indexing, SPL, dashboards, alerting, administration, and troubleshooting. - Experience working across application, infrastructure, cloud, and production technology environments. - 3+ years of experience with automation and scripting technologies such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, or comparable tools. - Experience with modern observability technologies such as Splunk, OpenTelemetry, APM, cloud monitoring, and telemetry platforms. - Working knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, and intelligent automation, including practical application in technology operations, incident management, and engineering productivity. - Demonstrated ability to identify and implement AI and automation opportunities that improve operational efficiency, troubleshooting, support, and decision-making. - Strong understanding of cybersecurity, data privacy, AI governance, risk management, and responsible technology practices. - Proven ability to influence technical strategy and lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, operations, and business teams. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable business recommendations for both technical and executive audiences. - Experience with public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, APIs, and modern application architectures. **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 **Pay Range** $117,600 - $161,700 per year For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Splunk - Python - PowerShell - Bash - APIs - AI - Generative AI - Kubernetes - containers - CI/CD pipelines - infrastructure automation - modern application architectures ### Nice to have - Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, or related discipline - Experience leading enterprise observability, SRE, platform engineering, reliability engineering, or technology operations teams --- Source: [Apply at humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://humana.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Humana_External_Career_Site/job/Louisville-KY/Lead-Technology-Leadership-Professional_R-435369-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)