Technology Solutions Lead — Enterprise Modernization & Strategy

Humana; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Competitive benefits

401(k) matching

Professional growth

Job summary

Humana seeks a Lead, Technology Solutions to drive IT initiative strategy and partner with business and functional teams to deliver scalable, secure software across the enterprise. You will guide engineering leaders, define roadmaps, and ensure delivery from design through production readiness, while mentoring teams and maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes.

This role requires 10+ years of tech leadership, strong communication with executives, and a track record of modernizing

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering leadership experience, with demonstrated ability to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• 10+ years of progressive technology experience, including leadership of software engineering, application development, modernization, or technology transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, including engineering managers, technical leads, architects, developers, and other technical professionals, with a strong focus on talent development, accountability, and engineering excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and execute technology and engineering roadmaps aligned with business strategy, product priorities, architectural direction, and enterprise technology standards.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including Agile delivery, DevSecOps, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, cloud technologies, APIs, microservices, observability, resiliency, and secure software development.
• Experience providing technical and architectural leadership, evaluating solution options and making pragmatic technology decisions across scalability, performance, security, maintainability, cost, and speed to market.
• Proven accountability for end-to-end software delivery, from strategy and solution design through development, testing, implementation, production readiness, and ongoing operational support.
• Experience managing technology budgets, resources, capacity, vendor relationships, and delivery commitments across multiple concurrent initiatives and engineering teams.
• Ability to establish and track engineering and delivery performance measures, using data to improve software quality, predictability, productivity, reliability, and overall engineering effectiveness.
• Strong experience driving continuous improvement and technology modernization, including evaluating legacy platforms, reducing technical debt, improving development processes, and implementing scalable engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product Management, Business, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Operations teams to translate business outcomes into executable technology solutions.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical topics, investment needs, delivery risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to senior business and technology leaders.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and make independent, risk-informed decisions in complex environments with significant business, technology, regulatory, and operational dependencies.
• Experience establishing strong production ownership and operational discipline, including application reliability, incident management, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, performance, availability, and service-level expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to build a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning, while maintaining a strong focus on customer and consumer outcomes.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Collaborate with business and functional stakeholders to identify and deliver strategic enablement solutions.
• Advise executives to develop functional strategies and make independent, risk-informed decisions.
• Ensure end-to-end software delivery from strategy through production readiness and ongoing support.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software architecture

Agile & DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

API design

Observability

Job description

Humana seeks a Lead, Technology Solutions to drive IT initiative strategy and partner with business and functional teams to deliver scalable, secure software across the enterprise. You will guide engineering leaders, define roadmaps, and ensure delivery from design through production readiness, while mentoring teams and maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes.

This role requires 10+ years of tech leadership, strong communication with executives, and a track record of modernizing