Remote Lead AI Automation Engineer — Enterprise Automation Architect

Humana; New York (NY); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana seeks a Lead AI Automation Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for designing, building, and productionizing AI-enabled automation within Data Governance. The role blends generative AI, workflow orchestration, APIs, and low-code tools to automate governance processes with strong security and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns, and drive automation opportunities from concept to secure production deployment, partnering with architecture,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field and 5+ years of software engineering.
• 2+ years building AI/ML or agentic automation solutions.
• Experience delivering production-grade automation with security and governance.
• Proven leadership in design reviews and mentoring engineers.
• Strong skills in integrating with enterprise data systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and hands-on development of AI-enabled automations, agentic workflows, and intelligent process orchestration for enterprise Data Governance use cases.
• Build solutions that combine large language models, deterministic business logic, workflow engines, APIs, enterprise data, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Design reusable automation frameworks, services, connectors, prompts, tools, and patterns that accelerate delivery across multiple governance workflows.
• Integrate AI automation with metadata management, data catalog, data quality, lineage, policy, ticketing, collaboration, and enterprise data platform capabilities.
• Engineer APIs and services that allow agents and automations to safely retrieve context, execute approved actions, and interact with enterprise systems.
• Use Power Platform and other low-code automation technologies where appropriate, while applying software engineering discipline to maintainability, security, testing, and lifecycle management.
• Establish patterns for agent orchestration, tool use, state management, exception handling, observability, auditability, human approval, and failure recovery.
• Define and implement evaluation, testing, monitoring, and quality controls for AI automations, including accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational performance.
• Partner with architects, security, AI/data science teams, product owners, governance leaders, and application teams to translate business processes into secure and scalable automation solutions.
• Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, improve engineering standards, and provide technical direction while staying hands-on.
• Identify processes ripe for automation and challenge unnecessary manual steps and duplicated workflows.
• Own production readiness and operational support, including CI/CD, release management, telemetry, incident troubleshooting, continuous improvement, and responsible AI controls.

Skills

Software engineering

AI/ML experience

Technical leadership

Production deployment

Low-code automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Power Platform

Job description

Humana seeks a Lead AI Automation Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for designing, building, and productionizing AI-enabled automation within Data Governance. The role blends generative AI, workflow orchestration, APIs, and low-code tools to automate governance processes with strong security and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns, and drive automation opportunities from concept to secure production deployment, partnering with architecture,