Lead Enterprise Architect

Lead Enterprise Architect Become a part of our caring community. Join a high-impact leadership role at the forefront of healthcare transformation. As the Lead Enterprise Architect, you will shape the future of technology across a complex and rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem spanning payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, corporate, and digital technology domains. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide strategy, drive modernization at scale, and partner directly with executive leadership to deliver innovative, secure, and resilient technology platforms that improve business outcomes and healthcare experiences. Key Responsibilities Lead the development and execution of enterprise architecture strategy aligned to business and digital transformation objectives. Establish target‑state architecture models across infrastructure, networking, security, quality, and observability domains. Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, principals, and engineering teams. Drive enterprise-wide architecture governance, standards, reference architectures, and technology lifecycle management best practices. Facilitate architecture review boards, technology governance councils, and strategic planning forums. Define measurable architecture KPIs tied to business value, operational efficiency, and technical health. Lead enterprise software rationalization initiatives across thousands of applications and platforms. Develop application inventory, classification, and lifecycle management frameworks. Identify redundant, overlapping, under‑utilized, obsolete, and high‑risk technologies. Create modernization roadmaps focused on consolidation, retirement, re‑platforming, refactoring, SaaS migration, and cloud‑native transformation. Establish total cost of ownership and technical debt reduction strategies. Drive reduction in vendor sprawl and unsupported technologies. Implement application scoring models based on business capability alignment, operational criticality, security posture, technical fitness, compliance risk, and cloud readiness. Partner with finance and procurement teams to optimize software licensing and infrastructure costs. Adopt capability‑based planning methodologies and maintain enterprise application heatmaps and technology risk dashboards. Implement standardized lifecycle governance: assess, invest, migrate, retire, leverage CMDB and application dependency mapping tools, and promote API‑first and reusable platform architectures. Establish golden‑path engineering standards and approved technology patterns. Use architecture fitness functions and technical health metrics for continuous evaluation. Lead strategic architecture direction across core technology domains including cloud and infrastructure, multi‑cloud and hybrid‑cloud strategy, Kubernetes/container platform strategy, infrastructure‑as‑code, resiliency and disaster recovery, application architecture, microservices and event‑driven architectures, observability, DevSecOps enablement, platform engineering and developer experience, security and risk, zero‑trust architecture, identity and access management, healthcare regulatory compliance, and cyber‑resiliency standards. Define enterprise technology standards and approved reference architectures, govern technology lifecycle management and exception processes, establish domain roadmaps aligned with business capability maturity, conduct architecture assessments and technical due diligence, and drive standardization of integration patterns, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and telemetry frameworks. Lead strategic modernization and transformation initiatives, including legacy modernization, mainframe reduction, cloud migration and optimization, AI‑enabled operational automation, and infrastructure simplification and platform convergence. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field. 12+ years of progressive IT and architecture experience. 5+ years leading enterprise architecture initiatives within large‑scale healthcare, payer, or provider environments. Deep expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF), cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), technology rationalization and modernization, DevSecOps, and leading software rationalization at enterprise scale. Experience influencing executive stakeholders and large engineering organizations. Preferred Qualifications Master’s degree. TOGAF, Azure, AWS, or SAFe certifications. Experience within Fortune 100 healthcare enterprises. Familiarity with AI governance frameworks. Experience with enterprise architecture tools: LeanIX, ServiceNow, APM. Leadership Competencies Strategic mindset with strong business acumen. Executive communication and stakeholder management. Influence without authority and organizational transformation leadership. Systems thinking and problem‑solving. Ability to balance innovation with operational stability. Strong mentoring and team leadership capabilities. Success Metrics Reduction in software portfolio redundancy. Improved technology standardization adoption. Reduction in technical debt and operational risk. Increased cloud adoption and modernization velocity. Improved platform resiliency and scalability. Lower infrastructure and licensing costs. Faster delivery through reusable architecture patterns. Improved developer productivity and engineering experience. Work Style & Location Remote work from any of the following locations: Louisville, KY; Washington, DC (Arlington, VA); Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Tampa, FL. Applicants must reside in close proximity to one of these locations. Occasional travel for training or meetings may be required. Benefits and Compensation Compensation range: $142,300 - $195,700 per year. Eligible for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, paid time off, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave, short‑term and long‑term disability, life insurance, and other wellness programs. Other Recruitment Information This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship. Equal Opportunity Employer Humana is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. Humana complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. #J-18808-Ljbffr Humana Inc