Senior Enterprise Architect

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Juneau, AK

5,001-10,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

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 an IT Professional 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 Senior Enterprise Architect, you play a pivotal role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and framing enterprise standards. 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 Senior Enterprise Architect, you will provide mentorship and guidance to other enterprise, solution, technology, and system architects across Humana. Your responsibilities will include serving as a strong advocate for the business within IT, ensuring that technology execution aligns with business strategy, and helping achieve value-driven outcomes by ensuring Humana's Technology Strategy is executed in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies. You will engage in enterprise technology modernization initiatives working with the application teams and key business and IT stakeholders, helping deliver value through architecture guidance and execution support. Your role will also involve mentoring pattern-based development with a strong focus on resource & cost optimization, collaborating with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities and business functions. You will document the current state architecture, value streams and domain capability models, apply portfolio rationalization to identify opportunities for innovation, and lead application modernization initiatives including rearchitecting legacy applications to value-driven enterprise architecture standards. Furthermore, you will enable continued innovation and evolution of cloud services, maintain standards & policies, create cost models for applications, evaluate new technologies for continuous improvement, and mentor application teams with enterprise data use standards. Your support will extend to application teams through various enterprise governance processes, providing 'white glove' support to ensure successful implementation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT and ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy.
• Help achieve value-driven outcomes by ensuring Humana's Technology Strategy is executed in alignment with corporate vision and segment business strategies.
• Engage in enterprise technology modernization initiatives working with the application teams and key business and IT stakeholders and help deliver value through architecture guidance and execution support.
• Mentor pattern-based development with a strong focus on resource & cost optimization.
• 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.
• Lead Application modernization initiatives including rearchitecting legacy mainframe, stand-alone and web-based applications to value driven enterprise architecture standards.
• 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.
• Maintain standards & policies including revalidating them based on latest trends & best practices and socializing it with user friendly documentation.
• Create Cost Models/Dashboards for applications based on resource utilization, licensing cost and help application teams determine the TCO and plan for future needs.
• 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.
• Mentor the application teams with enterprise data use standards and help them solve non-functional needs like logging, auditing, and end-to-end observability.
• Support application teams through various enterprise governance process and provide 'white glove' support to ensure successful implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Progressive experience as a senior application and/or solution architect or technical lead in large company spanning multiple enterprise systems.
• 10 or more years design, development, and testing of software applications.
• Expertise in all SDLC activities including ideation, design, implementation, validating functional and non-functional aspects, and Day2 operations.
• Expert knowledge and experience with enterprise architecture pattern development and application, cloud native architectures and agile delivery.
• Proficient in evaluating multiple tools and evaluating the best suitable tool based on organizational needs.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• Associate or Professional level solution architecture certification in Azure, GCP and/or AWS.
• 3-5 years of experience in Cloud technologies, Cloud migration or Enterprise Architecture.
• Familiarity/certification in architectural frameworks like TOGAF
• Experience with various CI/CD Quality Drivers and implementation approaches
• Expertise in Enterprise Architecture repository tools like iServer
• 2+ years of project leadership and consulting experience.
• Health Care Business Domains - Medicare, Medicaid, Group, Specialty etc.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Company and personal holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Many other opportunities