Associate Director, Enterprise Software & API Modernization

Humana; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Humana in Chicago seeks an Associate Director of Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for enterprise applications, data platforms, and API integrations. You will manage roadmaps, modernization efforts, and delivery across a portfolio, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.

This leader partners with business leaders and architects to align technology with objectives, drive automation and cloud adoption, and communicate strategy and risks to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering, application development, data engineering, or technology delivery experience.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing software engineering teams.
• Experience with enterprise applications, relational and/or cloud-based databases, and API/integration platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing software engineering teams responsible for enterprise applications, databases, data platforms, and API services.
• Own the technology roadmap for assigned applications, enterprise data stores, databases, APIs, and integration platforms.
• Drive the delivery of technology solutions that support strategic business initiatives and enterprise objectives.
• Manage resource planning, staffing decisions, skill development, and budget responsibilities across multiple engineering teams.
• Oversee application lifecycle management, including development, maintenance, modernization, support, and retirement activities.
• Lead technology lifecycle management efforts, ensuring platforms, frameworks, databases, and tools remain current, secure, and supportable.
• Establish engineering best practices across software development, data engineering, API development, DevOps, and operational support.
• Ensure the scalability, availability, performance, security, and reliability of enterprise applications, databases, and API ecosystems.
• Partner with enterprise architects and business stakeholders to define data, integration, and application strategies.
• Govern API and data management standards, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Communicate technology strategy, delivery status, risks, dependencies, and investment recommendations to senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation, modernization, cloud adoption, and engineering excellence initiatives.
• Drive the adoption and effective utilization of AI-powered engineering tools and platforms to improve software development productivity, code quality, testing efficiency, operational support, and overall delivery outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

Enterprise apps

API platforms

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

Databricks

Job description

Humana in Chicago seeks an Associate Director of Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for enterprise applications, data platforms, and API integrations. You will manage roadmaps, modernization efforts, and delivery across a portfolio, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.

This leader partners with business leaders and architects to align technology with objectives, drive automation and cloud adoption, and communicate strategy and risks to senior leadership.