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Lead Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Activation
**Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first**
Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 26 million members? At the Humana Enterprise Architecture Activation unit, our mission is to deliver a perfect member experience by bringing forth the alignment of business strategy to technology strategy, enabling the effective and efficient execution of the technology strategy and to facilitate the adoption and delivery of the Humana Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, policies and methodologies. The Lead Enterprise Architect (AI) guides the strategic vision and execution of AI-enabled enterprise architecture. You will align AI initiatives with business objectives, overseeing complex architecture projects, and shaping the organizational approach to responsible AI adoption. You will also play an important role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and the IT portfolio execution.
As the business's advocate in IT, you will bring business leadership, business operations, project management, IT leadership, IT architecture and engineering together to a common understanding of what it takes to deliver the business vision. You will be an integral part of the delivery of critical business outcomes, as well as the creation of technology strategies to leverage the IT portfolio to improve member experience and health outcomes, create competitive advantages, reduce operational risk, and total cost of operations. Additionally, as a lead enterprise architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology and system architects across Humana.
**We would love to meet you if some or all of the below describe you:**
+ You are customer obsessed
+ You have a business-centric outlook
+ You can understand both strategic and expedient views and balance their trade-offs
+ You are driven, thorough and self-directed
+ You are able to lead through influence and persuasion
+ You have extensive Enterprise Architecture practice experience
+ You have healthcare payer domain experience
+ You have deep solution architecture experience
+ You are experienced in Hybrid and Cloud architecture and migration at scale
**Advocacy and Stewardship**
+ Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT
+ Ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy
+ Serve as an evangelist for, facilitate and drive adoption and delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework
+ Continuously study and gain in-depth understanding of health care payer industry best practices, innovation, technologies and trends as well as document and communicate these within the business and IT
**Technical Innovation, Strategy, and Execution**
+ Define and evangelize the enterprise AI architecture vision and roadmap.
+ Lead cross-functional teams in the delivery of transformative AI solutions.
+ Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities and business functions
+ Collaborate with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to document the current state architecture, value streams and domain capability models
+ Apply portfolio rationalization to map and document the coverage between Value Streams, Business Capabilities, and Technology Capabilities and identify opportunities for innovation, as well as reduction in risk, complexity and total cost of operations
+ Collaborate with technical teams and leadership to define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end state architectures, to align the technology portfolio to deliver the opportunities identified in the technology portfolio rationalization and the business value defined by the business vision and strategy
+ Create the artifacts and conditions necessary for effective demand management, prioritization of delivery, and capacity planning to create the roadmaps that drive the execution of the technology strategy
+ Create, catalog, maintain and deliver the documentation and artifacts that describe the principles, standards, policies and methodologies of the enterprise architecture practice
+ Facilitate and advocate for the adoption and delivery of the enterprise architecture within an agile delivery framework
+ Validate that execution of the technology strategy fulfills the original intent of the business strategy and vision
+ Deliver an entry point, filter, path and guidance for successfully navigating the architecture governance process
**What does the ideal candidate look like? They have:**
+ Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
+ Expert knowledge and experience with architecture patters for: enterprise integration, system decomposition, refactoring and cloud migration
+ Expert knowledge and experience with cloud native architectures on at least one cloud platform provider in an enterprise environment
+ Expert knowledge and experience with highly available, fault tolerant and event driven architectures at scale
+ Expert knowledge and experience with Enterprise Architecture, technical strategy, and technology roadmaps
+ Expert knowledge and experience with lean-agile delivery methodologies in an enterprise environment
+ Technical expertise in one or more of the following technical domains:
+ On-premise environments or infrastructure
+ Identity and Access Management
+ Data and information management
+ Information security
+ Software engineering and delivery
+ Business Applications
+ Analytics and Reporting
+ Robotic Process Automation
+ Bonus points for expertise in one or more of the following Healthcare Insurance Payer business domains:
+ Medicare / Medicaid / Medicare Supplemental
+ Group insurance
+ Specialty health care (vision, dental, etc.)
**Use your skills to make an impact**
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field OR equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
+ Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
+ 10 or more years of experience in the design, development, and testing of software applications
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Associate or Professional Level Cloud certification in Azure, GCP or AWS
+ 1-3 years of experience in Cloud technologies or Enterprise Architecture
+ 2+ years of project leadership experience
**Additional Information**
**Location/Work Style:** Remote US
**Why Humana?**
At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:
+ Work-Life Balance
+ Generous PTO package
+ Health benefits effective day 1
+ Annual Incentive Plan
+ 401K - Excellent company match
+ Well-being program
+ Paid Volunteer Time Off
If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.
**Work at Home Guidance**
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
+ At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
+ Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
+ Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
+ Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
+ Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information
**SSN Alert Statement**
Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
**Scheduled Weekly Hours**
40
**Pay Range**
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
**Description of Benefits**
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
Application Deadline: 02-03-2026
**About us**
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first - for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health - delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
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**Equal Opportunity Employer**
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.
Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 26 million members? At the Humana Enterprise Architecture Activation unit, our mission is to deliver a perfect member experience by bringing forth the alignment of business strategy to technology strategy, enabling the effective and efficient execution of the technology strategy and to facilitate the adoption and delivery of the Humana Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, policies and methodologies. The Lead Enterprise Architect (AI) guides the strategic vision and execution of AI-enabled enterprise architecture. You will align AI initiatives with business objectives, overseeing complex architecture projects, and shaping the organizational approach to responsible AI adoption. You will also play an important role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and the IT portfolio execution.
As the business's advocate in IT, you will bring business leadership, business operations, project management, IT leadership, IT architecture and engineering together to a common understanding of what it takes to deliver the business vision. You will be an integral part of the delivery of critical business outcomes, as well as the creation of technology strategies to leverage the IT portfolio to improve member experience and health outcomes, create competitive advantages, reduce operational risk, and total cost of operations. Additionally, as a lead enterprise architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology and system architects across Humana.
**We would love to meet you if some or all of the below describe you:**
+ You are customer obsessed
+ You have a business-centric outlook
+ You can understand both strategic and expedient views and balance their trade-offs
+ You are driven, thorough and self-directed
+ You are able to lead through influence and persuasion
+ You have extensive Enterprise Architecture practice experience
+ You have healthcare payer domain experience
+ You have deep solution architecture experience
+ You are experienced in Hybrid and Cloud architecture and migration at scale
**Advocacy and Stewardship**
+ Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT
+ Ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy
+ Serve as an evangelist for, facilitate and drive adoption and delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework
+ Continuously study and gain in-depth understanding of health care payer industry best practices, innovation, technologies and trends as well as document and communicate these within the business and IT
**Technical Innovation, Strategy, and Execution**
+ Define and evangelize the enterprise AI architecture vision and roadmap.
+ Lead cross-functional teams in the delivery of transformative AI solutions.
+ Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities and business functions
+ Collaborate with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to document the current state architecture, value streams and domain capability models
+ Apply portfolio rationalization to map and document the coverage between Value Streams, Business Capabilities, and Technology Capabilities and identify opportunities for innovation, as well as reduction in risk, complexity and total cost of operations
+ Collaborate with technical teams and leadership to define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end state architectures, to align the technology portfolio to deliver the opportunities identified in the technology portfolio rationalization and the business value defined by the business vision and strategy
+ Create the artifacts and conditions necessary for effective demand management, prioritization of delivery, and capacity planning to create the roadmaps that drive the execution of the technology strategy
+ Create, catalog, maintain and deliver the documentation and artifacts that describe the principles, standards, policies and methodologies of the enterprise architecture practice
+ Facilitate and advocate for the adoption and delivery of the enterprise architecture within an agile delivery framework
+ Validate that execution of the technology strategy fulfills the original intent of the business strategy and vision
+ Deliver an entry point, filter, path and guidance for successfully navigating the architecture governance process
**What does the ideal candidate look like? They have:**
+ Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
+ Expert knowledge and experience with architecture patters for: enterprise integration, system decomposition, refactoring and cloud migration
+ Expert knowledge and experience with cloud native architectures on at least one cloud platform provider in an enterprise environment
+ Expert knowledge and experience with highly available, fault tolerant and event driven architectures at scale
+ Expert knowledge and experience with Enterprise Architecture, technical strategy, and technology roadmaps
+ Expert knowledge and experience with lean-agile delivery methodologies in an enterprise environment
+ Technical expertise in one or more of the following technical domains:
+ On-premise environments or infrastructure
+ Identity and Access Management
+ Data and information management
+ Information security
+ Software engineering and delivery
+ Business Applications
+ Analytics and Reporting
+ Robotic Process Automation
+ Bonus points for expertise in one or more of the following Healthcare Insurance Payer business domains:
+ Medicare / Medicaid / Medicare Supplemental
+ Group insurance
+ Specialty health care (vision, dental, etc.)
**Use your skills to make an impact**
**Required Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field OR equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
+ Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
+ 10 or more years of experience in the design, development, and testing of software applications
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ Associate or Professional Level Cloud certification in Azure, GCP or AWS
+ 1-3 years of experience in Cloud technologies or Enterprise Architecture
+ 2+ years of project leadership experience
**Additional Information**
**Location/Work Style:** Remote US
**Why Humana?**
At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:
+ Work-Life Balance
+ Generous PTO package
+ Health benefits effective day 1
+ Annual Incentive Plan
+ 401K - Excellent company match
+ Well-being program
+ Paid Volunteer Time Off
If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.
**Work at Home Guidance**
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
+ At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
+ Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
+ Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
+ Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
+ Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information
**SSN Alert Statement**
Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
**Scheduled Weekly Hours**
40
**Pay Range**
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
**Description of Benefits**
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
Application Deadline: 02-03-2026
**About us**
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first - for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health - delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
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**Equal Opportunity Employer**
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.
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