Lead Software Engineer

Humana; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive hands-on development across a portfolio of Corporate Affairs applications. You’ll guide design, implementation, and troubleshooting while coordinating onshore and offshore teams to ensure secure, reliable, and compliant software delivery.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, cloud modernization, and production support, with scope for automation and AI-enabled improvements. Remote work with possible travel for training or meetings is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 years of Significant software engineering experience supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience providing technical leadership across development teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, source-control repositories, and application deployment processes.
• Experience supporting production applications and enterprise change-management processes.
• Working knowledge of application security, vulnerability remediation, and technology lifecycle management.
• Experience coordinating work across application development, infrastructure, security, architecture, and business teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, configuration, and deployment layers.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple enterprise applications.
• Lead development activities involving onshore and offshore engineering resources.
• Guide application design, development, maintenance, troubleshooting, and implementation activities.
• Provide technical continuity and subject-matter expertise for complex or business-critical applications.
• Partner with architects, product owners, technology leaders, and engineering teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions.
• Support the ongoing operation and maintenance of applications within the Corporate Affairs technology portfolio.
• Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, configuration, and integration issues.
• Coordinate production changes and application-related operational activities.
• Provide cross-application technical coverage when operational issues require senior engineering support.
• Partner with enterprise infrastructure and security teams to address application security findings and technology vulnerabilities.
• Support remediation of infrastructure and software lifecycle concerns.
• Coordinate application validation associated with infrastructure changes.
• Prepare and oversee technical change activities required to implement remediation.
• Maintain visibility into application security findings, exceptions, and remediation activities.
• Support application modernization and migration initiatives.
• Troubleshoot cloud deployment pipelines and associated application configuration.
• Support adoption of automation and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
• Work with enterprise platform teams to resolve infrastructure and configuration dependencies.
• Coordinate technical change-management activities for supported applications.
• Support application and infrastructure certification activities.
• Maintain appropriate technical and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, architecture, and application teams on enterprise technology requirements.
• Help ensure application changes are implemented through established change and operational processes.
• Compliance and regulatory technology
• Regulatory validation solutions
• Internal auditing and quality applications
• AI and automation-enabled solutions
• Text and document analysis applications
• Corporate Affairs operational platforms
• Application security and lifecycle remediation

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on software engineering

Enterprise applications

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Security remediation

Production support

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Source-control repositories

Application deployment processes

Job description

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The Lead Software Engineer codes software applications based on business requirements. The Lead Software Engineer works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.

The Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership, hands-on software engineering, and operational support across a portfolio of business-critical Corporate Affairs applications. The role leads development activities across onshore and offshore resources while maintaining deep technical involvement in application development, integrations, migrations, security remediation, production support, and technology lifecycle management.

This position serves as a lead technical resource across applications supporting Corporate Affairs and Compliance, helping ensure solutions remain secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise technology standards.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Software Engineering

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple enterprise applications.
• Lead development activities involving onshore and offshore engineering resources.
• Guide application design, development, maintenance, troubleshooting, and implementation activities.
• Provide technical continuity and subject-matter expertise for complex or business-critical applications.
• Partner with architects, product owners, technology leaders, and engineering teams to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions.

Application & Production Support

• Support the ongoing operation and maintenance of applications within the Corporate Affairs technology portfolio.
• Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, configuration, and integration issues.
• Coordinate production changes and application-related operational activities.
• Provide cross-application technical coverage when operational issues require senior engineering support.

Security, Vulnerability & Technology Lifecycle Management

• Partner with enterprise infrastructure and security teams to address application security findings and technology vulnerabilities.
• Support remediation of infrastructure and software lifecycle concerns.
• Coordinate application validation associated with infrastructure changes.
• Prepare and oversee technical change activities required to implement remediation.
• Maintain visibility into application security findings, exceptions, and remediation activities.

Cloud, Automation & Modernization

• Support application modernization and migration initiatives.
• Troubleshoot cloud deployment pipelines and associated application configuration.
• Support adoption of automation and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
• Work with enterprise platform teams to resolve infrastructure and configuration dependencies.

Technical Operations & Governance

• Coordinate technical change-management activities for supported applications.
• Support application and infrastructure certification activities.
• Maintain appropriate technical and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, architecture, and application teams on enterprise technology requirements.
• Help ensure application changes are implemented through established change and operational processes.

Portfolio Scope

• Compliance and regulatory technology
• Regulatory validation solutions
• Internal auditing and quality applications
• AI and automation-enabled solutions
• Text and document analysis applications
• Corporate Affairs operational platforms
• Application security and lifecycle remediation

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Recommended Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 years of Significant software engineering experience supporting enterprise applications.
• Experience providing technical leadership across development teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, source-control repositories, and application deployment processes.
• Experience supporting production applications and enterprise change-management processes.
• Working knowledge of application security, vulnerability remediation, and technology lifecycle management.
• Experience coordinating work across application development, infrastructure, security, architecture, and business teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, configuration, and deployment layers.

Core Competencies

• Software engineering leadership
• Enterprise application development
• Application troubleshooting and production support
• Cloud and DevOps engineering
• Application security and vulnerability remediation
• Technology lifecycle management
• Change and release management
• Application modernization and migration
• Cross-functional technical coordination
• Technical documentation
• Onshore/offshore development coordination

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree

Additional Information

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

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.

$129,300 - $177,800 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

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.