Lead Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Architecture Activation

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, standards, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to align business strategy, value streams, business capabilities, and technology investments.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable architecture roadmaps and transformation initiatives.
• Balance strategic architecture goals with practical delivery considerations and evolving business needs.
• Ensure technology decisions and execution remain aligned with business objectives and desired outcomes.
• Validate that technology investments deliver the intended business value and support organizational goals.

Lead architecture experience across key healthcare payer domains, including:

• Claims Processing and Adjudication
• Enrollment, Membership, and Eligibility
• Benefits and Product Management
• Provider Management and Contracting
• Payment Integrity and Cost Containment
• Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
• Member and Provider Experience
• Data, Analytics, and Reporting

• Serve as a strong advocate for business needs within the technology organization.
• Establish and evolve enterprise architecture governance, standards, policies, reference architectures, and methodologies.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, capability models, technology inventories, and roadmaps.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and provide guidance through governance processes.
• Promote adoption of enterprise architecture practices within agile delivery frameworks.
• Lead through influence, collaboration, and persuasion across business and technology teams.

• Define and communicate enterprise technology and AI architecture vision and roadmaps.
• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging cloud, API-led integration, event-driven architectures, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the design and delivery of transformative business and technology solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, and business leaders to document current-state and future-state architectures.
• Develop technology strategies that reduce complexity, technical debt, operational risk, and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendors to improve business agility and operational performance.
• Support enterprise-wide cloud adoption and migration initiatives at scale.

• Apply portfolio rationalization practices to align business capabilities, value streams, applications, and technology assets.
• Identify capability gaps, redundancies, modernization opportunities, and investment priorities.
• Develop target-state architectures and transition roadmaps that enable business transformation.
• Establish artifacts and planning mechanisms that support demand management, prioritization, capacity planning, and investment decisions.

• Deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture frameworks, practices, and governance.
• Strong solution architecture background spanning multiple business and technology domains. Expertise in:
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Application Modernization and Refactoring
• System Decomposition
• API and Event-Driven Architectures
• Cloud-Native Architectures
• Hybrid Cloud Environments
• Scalable, Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Systems
• Data and Information Architecture
• AI and Emerging Technology Strategies
• Experience creating enterprise technology strategies, reference architectures, and multi-year roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field OR equivalent experience in lieu of degree.
• Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture leadership roles within large, complex organizations.
• Deep healthcare payer industry experience with strong understanding of health plan operating models and business processes.
• Progressive experience as a senior architect, lead architect, or technology leader overseeing large-scale enterprise initiatives.
• Proven success leading business and technology transformation programs.
• Experience collaborating with executive leadership and influencing strategic decision-making.

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:

• Provide architectural guidance for initiatives supporting Medicare, Medicaid and Specialty Insurance products.
• Medicare Advantage and Supplemental Plans
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Regulatory and Compliance Programs
• Maintain deep understanding of healthcare payer industry trends, regulations, emerging technologies, and best practices

Use your skills to make an impact

As the business's advocate in IT, you will bring business leadership, business operations, project management, IT leadership, IT architecture and engineering together to a common understanding of what it takes to deliver the business vision. 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 portfolio to improve member experience and health outcomes, create competitive advantages, reduce operational risk, and total cost of operations. Additionally, as a lead enterprise architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology and system architects across Humana.