# Director, Software Engineering (Platform & Tool Development)

**Company**: Humana
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $189,400 - $260,500 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Humana is seeking a Director, Software Engineering (Platform & Tool Development) to lead the engineering, architecture, development, delivery, and support of its Enterprise Quality Engineering (EQE) technology ecosystem.

The Director will oversee multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, modernizing, and operating business-critical platforms and applications that support quality engineering, automation, AI adoption, engineering productivity, and enterprise delivery excellence.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Define and execute the technology vision, engineering strategy, and delivery roadmap for EQE+, AI Workspace, AI-powered engineering tools, and shared EQE applications.

- Drive software engineering excellence through modern architecture patterns, coding standards, engineering best practices, and operational discipline.

- Establish scalable technology solutions aligned with Humana's enterprise architecture and business objectives.

- Lead platform modernization initiatives leveraging cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, containerization, and event-driven architectures.

- Serve as the senior technical leader responsible for engineering execution, technical direction, and delivery outcomes across the EQE technology portfolio.

**Application Development & Platform Engineering**

- Oversee end-to-end software development lifecycle activities including design, development, testing, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.

- Lead engineering teams responsible for the development and maintenance of EQE+, AI Workspace, quality engineering tools, developer enablement solutions, and shared engineering services and applications.

- Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability across all platforms and applications.

- Drive adoption of reusable services, components, frameworks, and enterprise development standards.

- Lead engineering initiatives leveraging AWS and Azure cloud platforms.

**AI Engineering & Innovation**

- Lead engineering efforts for AI-enabled platforms, tools, and services across the EQE organization.

- Partner with enterprise AI teams to integrate Generative AI, Machine Learning, and intelligent automation capabilities into engineering platforms and workflows.

- Oversee development of AI-powered applications that improve engineering productivity, quality engineering effectiveness, and operational efficiency.

**Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence**

- Provide hands-on technical leadership and architectural guidance to software engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers.

- Mentor teams on software development methodologies, system design, cloud technologies, AI integration, and engineering best practices.

- Conduct design reviews, architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.

**Stakeholder Partnership & Delivery Management**

- Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and Business Leadership teams.

- Manage engineering priorities, resource allocation, delivery commitments, and technical dependencies.

- Communicate engineering strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

**Talent Development & Organizational Leadership**

- Build, develop, and retain high-performing software engineering teams.

- Provide coaching, mentoring, and career development opportunities for engineers and technical leaders.

- Support workforce planning, succession planning, and organizational growth initiatives.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

- 12+ years of software engineering and application development experience.

- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience leading large-scale software development teams.

- Proven experience leading development and delivery of enterprise applications, platforms, and cloud-native solutions.

- Strong hands-on software development experience utilizing Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Microservices Architecture, PostgreSQL, React, JavaScript/TypeScript.

**Benefits**

- Competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being, including medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- RESTful APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- PostgreSQL
- React
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- AWS
- Azure
- CI/CD tools
- DevOps practices
- Infrastructure as Code

### Nice to have
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- AI agents
- AI-assisted software development
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- OpenShift
- Terraform
- GitHub
- Azure DevOps

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