Humana

Lead Enterprise Architect

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Health Insurance, HealthcareIndustries

Lead Enterprise Architect

Position Overview

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 26 million members? Are you customer-obsessed with a business-centric outlook? At the Humana Enterprise Architecture unit, our mission is to deliver a perfect member experience by bringing forth the alignment of business strategy to technology strategy, enabling the effective and efficient execution of the technology strategy and to facilitate the adoption and delivery of the Humana Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, policies and methodologies.

As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you play a pivotal role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy, and the IT portfolio execution. You will be an integral part of the delivery of critical business outcomes, as well as the creation of technology strategies to leverage the IT. Additionally, as a Lead Enterprise Architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana.

The successful candidate will serve as a key advocate for the business within the IT organization, ensuring that technology execution is consistently aligned with overarching business strategy. This role is responsible for achieving value-driven outcomes by executing Humana’s Technology Strategy in direct alignment with the corporate vision and the specific strategies of business segments.

The position will play a pivotal role in enterprise technology modernization initiatives by collaborating closely with application teams and key business and IT stakeholders. The candidate will provide architecture guidance and execution support to ensure the successful delivery of business value.

Additionally, this role acts as an evangelist for the lean enterprise architecture practice, facilitating and driving its adoption and effective delivery within an agile delivery framework.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as an evangelist for, facilitate and drive adoption and delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework.
  • Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities, and business functions.
  • Collaborate with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to document the current state architecture, value streams, and domain capability models.
  • Apply portfolio rationalization to map and document the coverage between Value Streams, Business Capabilities, and Technology Capabilities and identify opportunities for innovation, as well as reduction in risk, complexity, and total cost of operations.
  • Collaborate with technical teams and leadership to define and maintain technology strategies, including intermediate and end-state architectures, to align the technology portfolio to deliver the opportunities identified in the technology portfolio rationalization and the business value defined by the business vision and strategy.
  • Enable continued innovation and evolution of the cloud everything-as-a-service including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms in collaboration with Segment teams and other Enterprise Shared Services Teams.
  • Evaluate new technologies/platforms for continuous improvement of our assets and develop architecture standards to leverage them.
  • Choose and adeptly use appropriate cloud services, technologies, tools, methodologies, and solutions to make sure that the architecture is robust, integrated, and aligned with the strategy and long-term objectives of the organization.
  • Use your skills to make an impact.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience: Progressive experience as a senior application and/or solution architect or technical lead in a large company spanning multiple enterprise systems.
  • Years of Experience: 10 or more years.

Employment Type

  • Full time

Salary

  • Information not provided

Location Type

  • Information not provided

Skills

Enterprise Architecture
Technology Strategy
Business Strategy
IT Portfolio Execution
Architecture Guidance
Mentorship
Stakeholder Management
Lean Enterprise Architecture

Humana

Health insurance provider for seniors and military

About Humana

Humana provides health and well-being services, focusing on Medicare Advantage plans for seniors, military personnel, and communities. Their plans include HMO, PPO, and PFFS options, designed to improve health outcomes through comprehensive and flexible coverage. Humana's revenue comes from government contracts and member premiums, and they aim to maintain high renewal rates by offering quality service and competitive benefits. The company stands out by fostering a culture of inclusivity and belonging among its employees, while also ensuring accessibility for all members, including offering free language interpreter services. Humana's goal is to deliver value to its members through an extensive provider network and innovative health solutions.

Louisville, KentuckyHeadquarters
1961Year Founded
IPOCompany Stage
Social Impact, HealthcareIndustries
10,001+Employees

Risks

Potential over-reliance on AI could disrupt operations if systems fail or are compromised.
Rising medical costs and tightening Medicare reimbursements may strain financial performance.
Leadership change with new CEO Jim Rechtin could lead to strategic disruptions.

Differentiation

Humana is a leader in Medicare Advantage plans, focusing on seniors and military personnel.
The company emphasizes inclusivity, offering free language interpreter services for accessibility.
Humana leverages AI and cloud technologies through a partnership with Google Cloud.

Upsides

Humana's investment in Healthpilot enhances digital enrollment for Medicare options.
The company is the first insurer to cover TMS therapy for adolescent depression.
Humana's focus on value-based care aims to improve outcomes for kidney disease patients.

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