Lead Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Activation

Humana; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the architecture vision and multi-year roadmaps across our payer domains. You will partner with leaders to align business strategy with technology investments, drive modernization, and guide governance within agile delivery teams.

You will influence executives, oversee transformation programs, and help shape a scalable, cloud-enabled architecture that improves member outcomes and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture leadership roles within large, complex organizations.
• Deep healthcare payer industry experience with strong understanding of health plan operating models.
• Progressive experience as senior/lead architect or technology leader overseeing large-scale initiatives.
• Proven ability to collaborate with executive leadership and influence strategic decisions.
• Experience leading business and technology transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to align strategy, value streams, and investments.
• Translate priorities into actionable architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives.
• Balance strategic goals with practical delivery and evolving business needs.
• Ensure technology decisions align with business objectives and desired outcomes.
• Lead architecture governance and artifact creation for roadmaps and inventories.
• Define technology strategies, cloud adoption, API-led integration, and modernization efforts.
• Support governance processes and promote EA practices within agile delivery teams.

Skills

EA leadership

Healthcare payer domain

Executive collaboration

Architecture governance

Strategic roadmaps

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

Job description

Become a part of our caring community Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 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. You will also play an important role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and the IT portfolio execution.

Become a part of our caring community Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 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. You will also play an important role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and the IT portfolio execution.

Enterprise Strategy & Business Alignment

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to align business strategy, value streams, business capabilities, and technology investments.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives.
• Balance strategic architecture goals with practical delivery considerations and evolving business needs.
• Ensure technology decisions and execution remain aligned with business objectives and desired outcomes.
• Validate that technology investments deliver the intended business value and support organizational goals.

Healthcare Payer Domain Understanding

Lead Architecture Experience Across Key Healthcare Payer Domains, Including

• Claims Processing and Adjudication
• Enrollment, Membership, and Eligibility
• Benefits and Product Management
• Provider Management and Contracting
• Payment Integrity and Cost Containment
• Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
• Member and Provider Experience
• Data, Analytics, and Reporting

Architecture Governance & Stewardship

• Serve as a strong advocate for business needs within the technology organization.
• Establish and evolve enterprise architecture governance, standards, policies, reference architectures, and methodologies.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, capability models, technology inventories, and roadmaps.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and provide guidance through governance processes.
• Promote adoption of enterprise architecture practices within agile delivery frameworks.
• Lead through influence, collaboration, and persuasion across business and technology teams.

Technology Innovation & Modernization

• Define and communicate enterprise technology and AI architecture vision and roadmaps.
• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging cloud, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the design and delivery of transformative business and technology solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, and business leaders to document current-state and future-state architectures.
• Develop technology strategies that reduce complexity, technical debt, operational risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendors to improve business agility and operational performance.
• Support enterprise-wide cloud adoption and migration initiatives at scale.

Portfolio Rationalization & Capability Management

• Apply portfolio rationalization practices to align business capabilities, value streams, applications, and technology assets.
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities.
• Develop target-state architectures and transition roadmaps that enable business transformation.
• Establish artifacts and planning mechanisms that support demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, and investment decisions.

Architecture & Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture frameworks, practices, and governance.
• Strong solution architecture background spanning multiple business and technology domains. Expertise in:
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Application Modernization and Refactoring
• System Decomposition
• API and Event-Driven Architectures
• Cloud-Native Architectures
• Hybrid Cloud Environments
• Scalable, Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Systems
• Data and Information Architecture
• AI and Emerging Technology Strategies
• Experience creating enterprise technology strategies, reference architectures, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field OR equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture leadership roles within large, complex organizations.
• Deep healthcare payer industry experience with strong understanding of health plan operating models and business processes.
• Progressive experience as a senior architect, lead architect, or technology leader overseeing large-scale enterprise initiatives.
• Proven success leading business and technology transformation programs.
• Experience collaborating with executive leadership and influencing strategic decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Provide architectural guidance for initiatives supporting Medicare, Medicaid and Specialty Insurance products.
• Medicare Advantage and Supplemental Plans
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Regulatory and Compliance Programs
• Maintain deep understanding of healthcare payer industry trends, regulations, emerging technologies, and best practices

Use Your Skills To Make An Impact

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.

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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our 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 and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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