Senior Product Owner & Architecture Leader

Humana; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 172,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana centers its CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture on unifying product strategy and solution architecture across four core segments: Pharmacy, PCO, Home Solutions, and Humana Military. The role connects business vision with technical execution, owning cross-segment roadmaps while authoring architectural blueprints that underpin them.

You will partner with segment leaders, security, data, and compliance to deliver interoperable health solutions serving members, providers, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience spanning product management, solution architecture, or a meaningful combination of both disciplines.
• 5+ years of solution architecture or senior product ownership experience within healthcare IT; demonstrated delivery in regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI, HITECH); experience across payer, provider, pharmacy, or government health domains preferred.
• Proven track record owning and prioritizing cross-functional product backlogs and roadmaps across multiple business lines or segments simultaneously, including managing competing stakeholder demands at the executive level.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Azure services (Azure API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Data Factory, AKS, Azure AD/Entra ID); working knowledge of Snowflake or Databricks data platform patterns.
• Deep competency in API design and governance, event-driven architecture, and microservices patterns; experience with FHIR R4 and HL7 interoperability standards in healthcare contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to produce reference architectures, architectural decision records (ADRs), and solution blueprints consumed by multiple engineering delivery teams.
• Experience participating in and translating output from enterprise governance forums (ARB, TRB, MOR or equivalent) into actionable product and architecture direction.
• Proficiency in agile and SAFe delivery models: backlog management, PI planning, iteration ceremonies, and dependency management across agile release trains.
• Executive-level communication skills; able to synthesize complex architectural and product trade-offs into clear, concise recommendations for senior and C-suite audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and own a unified cross-segment product roadmap that balances segment-specific priorities against shared platform investments, and communicates trade-offs clearly to leadership.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and integration standards applicable across all four CenterWell segments.
• Conduct cross-segment discovery sessions, design workshops, and architecture reviews to surface shared needs, resolve competing priorities, and prevent duplicative build.
• Own and prioritize top-level product backlogs for shared platforms, partnering with segment product owners to decompose initiatives into delivery-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Define integration contracts, API standards, and domain boundaries for cross-segment data flows spanning pharmacy, clinical, home health, and military health domains.
• Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews for cross-segment initiatives; represent the combined product and architecture perspective in governance forums (ARB, TRB, MOR).
• Translate product vision into architectural runways and delivery-ready specifications that engineering teams across segments can act on immediately.
• Identify and steward opportunities for component and pattern reuse across segments; build the case for platform consolidation where segment convergence creates lasting efficiency.
• Serve as the primary liaison between segment business leaders, engineering leads, EA Activation, security, and the enterprise CIO organization.

Skills

Executive communication

Agile SAFe

Product backlog management

Cross-segment collaboration

Architectural decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

Azure API Management

Azure Data Factory

Azure AD/Entra ID

AKS

Job description

Humana centers its CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture on unifying product strategy and solution architecture across four core segments: Pharmacy, PCO, Home Solutions, and Humana Military. The role connects business vision with technical execution, owning cross-segment roadmaps while authoring architectural blueprints that underpin them.

You will partner with segment leaders, security, data, and compliance to deliver interoperable health solutions serving members, providers, and