Senior Enterprise Architect

The Senior Enterprise Architect translates business needs into technical systems solutions and architectural roadmaps. This role involves moderately complex to complex issues requiring in-depth evaluations.

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

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.

Required 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.

Work Arrangements:

• Work from home with occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings.
• Reliable internet connection with a minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

• 40 hours per week.

Pay Range:

• $117,600 - $161,700 per year.

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and more.