Lead Enterprise Architect: Cloud & Strategy

Humana Inc; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to align business vision with technology strategy and to guide IT portfolio execution. You will mentor other architects across Humana while shaping enterprise architecture standards and cloud-based strategies.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and technical teams, driving modernization in a large health-care focused enterprise, and ensuring value-driven outcomes across value streams and capabilities. Remote options may apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Progressive experience as a senior application and/or solution architect or technical lead in a large company spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• 10+ years hands-on design, development, and testing of software applications.
• 3-5 years of experience in Cloud technologies, Cloud migration or Enterprise Architecture.
• Expert knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture pattern development and application, cloud architectures and agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT and ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy.
• Help achieve value-driven outcomes by ensuring Humana’s Technology Strategy is executed in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies.
• Engage in enterprise technology modernization initiatives working with the application teams and key business and IT stakeholders and help deliver value through architecture guidance and execution support.
• Serve as an evangelist for, facilitate and drive adoption and delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework.
• 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.
• Enable continued innovation and evolution of the cloud everything-as-a-service including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms in collaboration with Segment teams and other Enterprise Shared Services Teams.
• Evaluate new technologies/platforms for continuous improvement of our assets and develop architecture standards to leverage them.
• Choose and adeptly use appropriate cloud services, technologies, tools, methodologies and solutions to make sure that the architecture is robust, integrated and aligned with the strategy and long-term objectives of the organization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud technologies

Agile delivery

Leadership & mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to align business vision with technology strategy and to guide IT portfolio execution. You will mentor other architects across Humana while shaping enterprise architecture standards and cloud-based strategies.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and technical teams, driving modernization in a large health-care focused enterprise, and ensuring value-driven outcomes across value streams and capabilities. Remote options may apply.