Remote Enterprise Architect - Cloud Transformation

Humana; Kentucky; Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to translate business needs into technical roadmaps and scalable cloud architectures. You will guide complex solution designs, align technology decisions with enterprise standards, security, and governance while collaborating with engineering, security, and business leaders.

You will define target-state architecture, create reusable patterns, reference architectures, and implementation guidance to enable teams to modernize and harmonize

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in application design, software development, systems engineering, or technology architecture.
• Progressive experience as an enterprise architect, solution architect, cloud architect, senior technical lead, or similar role.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise applications, platforms, or technology domains.
• Experience with cloud, hybrid-cloud, application modernization, or legacy-system transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing target-state architecture, solution designs, technology roadmaps, and reference architectures.
• Strong knowledge of scalability, resiliency, security, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Experience with enterprise integration technologies, including APIs, web services, messaging, or event-driven architecture.
• Experience applying architecture governance, information security requirements, and enterprise technology standards.
• Strong analytical, technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to independently lead complex architecture initiatives and influence decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Lead architecture planning for complex enterprise, cloud, application modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Guide teams in designing, building, modernizing, and migrating applications and services to cloud environments.
• Establish reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, standards, playbooks, and technical guardrails.
• Evaluate technologies, products, and services for scalability, security, interoperability, cost, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, design discussions, and proofs of concept.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, design trade-offs, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure solutions comply with architecture, governance, security, data-management, and technology standards.
• Provide technical guidance throughout implementation and confirm that delivered solutions align with approved designs.
• Partners with business leaders, engineers, architects, security teams, and vendors to establish priorities and resolve technical challenges.
• Present architecture recommendations, risks, and strategic options to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to architects, developers, and engineering teams.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Leadership

Architecture governance

Cloud strategy

Security requirements

Documentation

Problem solving

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / information systems / software engineering

Master’s degree in computer science / information systems / engineering / business administration

Tools

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to translate business needs into technical roadmaps and scalable cloud architectures. You will guide complex solution designs, align technology decisions with enterprise standards, security, and governance while collaborating with engineering, security, and business leaders.

You will define target-state architecture, create reusable patterns, reference architectures, and implementation guidance to enable teams to modernize and harmonize