Remote Lead Enterprise Architect

Humana; Clifton (TX); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect for Enterprise API and Integration. The role drives API architecture, governance, and platform strategy across the enterprise, promoting reuse and standardized practices while enabling AI-driven capabilities across integrations.

Responsibilities include leading API design, governance, and platform initiatives, partnering with multiple teams, and advancing AI-enabled governance and MLOps-like patterns to improve velocity and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• ~8+ years of API architecture, integration, or application development experience.
• Strong experience with API governance frameworks and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with monitoring, observability and operational standards for APIs and microservices.
• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Define, evolve, and promote enterprise API architecture, design patterns, and standards.
• Lead enterprise-wide API governance, including intake, design review, lifecycle management, and compliance enforcement.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, and business teams to drive adoption of API standards and reusable patterns.
• Build and scale enterprise API platforms enabling federated development and self-service discovery.
• Develop AI-enabled governance capabilities across the API lifecycle.
• LLM integration, RAG, and vector data platform initiatives.
• Establish governance metrics and KPIs for API adoption and lifecycle maturity.
• Lead prototyping and evaluation of emerging API/AI technologies; improve velocity and quality.

Skills

API architecture

API governance

Cloud platforms

Multi-cloud/hybrid cloud

AI integration patterns

DX practices

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Apigee

Kong

Azure API Management

AWS API Gateway

Job description

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Lead Enterprise Architect, Enterprise API and Integration

Lead Enterprise Architect, Enterprise API and Integration is an important role in leading the technology transformation efforts focused on defining the architecture, standards and governance for API development across the enterprise. This role ensures effective lifecycle management, promotes reuse, and drives consistency across all enterprise integrations while enabling AI-driven and agentic capabilities.

• Define, evolve, and promote enterprise API architecture, design patterns, and standards, including transition and target-state architectures.
• Lead enterprise-wide API governance, including intake, design review, lifecycle management, and compliance enforcement.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, security, data, and business teams to drive adoption of API standards and reusable integration patterns.
• Build and scale enterprise API platforms enabling federated development, developer self-service, and catalog-driven discovery.
• Develop AI-enabled governance capabilities, including automation, AI-ready API design, and gap detection across the API lifecycle.
• LLM integration, RAG, and vector data platforms
• Establish governance metrics and KPIs, including API adoption, lifecycle maturity, reuse, performance, and compliance.
• Lead prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and evaluation of emerging technologies in APIs, AI, and integration.
• Improve engineering velocity, scalability, and API quality through standardized practices and platform capabilities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• ~8+ years of experience in API architecture, integration, or application development
• ~ Strong experience with API governance frameworks and lifecycle management
• ~ Hands-on experience with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Azure API Management, AWS API Gateway)
• ~ Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• ~ Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational standards for APIs and microservices
• ~ Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments

Advanced Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field
• Experience building and scaling enterprise API programs and governance models
• Experience with AI/ML integration patterns, LLM ecosystems, or agentic frameworks
• Exposure to platform engineering and developer experience (DX) practices

Work Arrangement

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: wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Compensation

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. 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.

Benefits

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.

• 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
• many other opportunities

About Humana

About Humana: Humana Inc. (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 and 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. 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.