Remote NoSQL Cloud Architect & Data Platform Lead

Humana; United States; Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Generous PTO

401K match

Well-being program

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect – NoSQL Databases to provide strategic leadership across enterprise NoSQL platforms in Humana’s cloud environments. You will design, modernize, and govern NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Neo4j, vector databases) with security, scalability, and reliability at the core, guiding teams through architecture decisions and migrations.

This remote role offers collaboration with security, engineering, and analytics teams and requires hands-on cloud experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Cloud architecture, Cloud engineering, Database engineering, DevOps, or related technology roles.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, or supporting NoSQL database platforms such as MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, vector databases, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong development or scripting experience using Python.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, source control, branching strategies, release management, pull request workflows, automated testing, and operational automation.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar DevOps platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large-scale database migrations, platform modernization efforts, or technology standardization initiatives.
• Solid understanding of NoSQL data modeling, partitioning, indexing, query optimization, performance tuning, scalability, and resiliency patterns.
• Experience designing database platforms for high availability, disaster recovery, backup, recovery, monitoring, and operational support.
• Working knowledge of cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, private networking, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance controls.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar tools to support software development, automation, documentation, troubleshooting, or architecture activities.
• Ability to responsibly apply AI tools while protecting confidential information, regulated data, source code, credentials, and enterprise intellectual property.
• Ability to create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, implementation guidance, and operational support materials.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, document, and maintain enterprise-wide NoSQL database standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices.
• Lead architecture and engineering efforts for NoSQL platforms including MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j, and vector databases.
• Support NoSQL platform rationalization and modernization initiatives, including migration planning and execution from Cosmos DB to MongoDB where appropriate.
• Architect secure, highly available, scalable, and performant NoSQL database solutions across cloud environments, including Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Define database architecture patterns for document databases, graph databases, key‑value workloads, and vector search use cases.
• Guide application teams on NoSQL data modeling, partitioning, indexing, query patterns, performance optimization, and operational readiness.
• Oversee automation of NoSQL provisioning, configuration, monitoring, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management using DevOps and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• Develop and review automation scripts, tooling, and integrations using Python and related technologies.
• Collaborate with security, cloud engineering, quality engineering, compliance, and application teams to ensure NoSQL deployments meet enterprise security, regulatory, and operational standards.
• Support Cloud onboarding, development, deployment, and troubleshooting activities for application teams using NoSQL database platforms.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architecture guidance to engineers and cross‑functional teams.
• Evaluate emerging NoSQL, graph, vector database, cloud‑native, and AI‑enabled data technologies to inform enterprise roadmap decisions.
• Participate in architecture review, platform governance, technology standardization, and modernization planning activities.

Skills

NoSQL databases

Cloud architecture

Python

DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

Google Cloud

MongoDB

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Humana is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect – NoSQL Databases to provide strategic leadership across enterprise NoSQL platforms in Humana’s cloud environments. You will design, modernize, and govern NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Neo4j, vector databases) with security, scalability, and reliability at the core, guiding teams through architecture decisions and migrations.

This remote role offers collaboration with security, engineering, and analytics teams and requires hands-on cloud experience