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# Lead Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** Humana Inc.
- **Location:** Tampa, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $142,300.0 - $195,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Fault Tolerance, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), IT Management, Internet Services, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud Services, Cloud Platform System, IT Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Enterprise Integration, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3369517839&tx=KK2323FFP&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Are customer-obsessed
 * Have business-centric outlook
 * Able to understand both strategic and expedient views and balance their trade-offs
 * Are driven, thorough and self-directed
 * Able to lead through influence and persuasion
 * Have extensive Enterprise Architecture practice experience
 * Have healthcare payer domain experience
 * Have deep solution architecture experience
 * Experienced in Hybrid and Cloud architecture and migration at scale, * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
 * Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
 * 10 or more years design, development, and testing of software applications
 * Expert knowledge and experience with:
 * Architecture patterns for enterprise integration, system decomposition, refactoring and cloud migration
 * Cloud native architectures on at least one cloud platform provider in an enterprise environment
 * Highly available, fault tolerant and event driven architectures at scale
 * Enterprise Architecture, technical strategy, and technology roadmaps
 * Lean-agile delivery methodologies in an enterprise environment
 * Health Care Business Domains - Medicare, Medicaid, Group, Specialty, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Master's Degree
 * Associate or Professional level solution architecture certification in Azure, GCP or AWS.
 * 1-3 years of experience in Cloud, AI technologies or Enterprise Architecture.
 * 2+ years of project leadership and consulting experience.

## Description

As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you play a pivotal role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy and the IT portfolio execution. 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. You will report to a Director, Enterprise Architecture., * Serve as a strong advocate for the business within IT.

 * 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.
 * Create the artifacts and conditions necessary for effective demand management, prioritization of delivery, and capacity planning to create the roadmaps that drive the execution of the technology strategy.
 * Continuously study and gain in-depth understanding of health care payer industry best practices, innovation, technologies and trends as well as document and communicate these within the business and IT.
 * 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 solution 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.
 * Create, catalog, maintain and deliver the documentation and artifacts that describe the principles, standards, policies and methodologies of the enterprise architecture practice
 * Deliver an entry point, filter, path and guidance for successfully navigating the architecture governance process.
 * 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.
 * Provide thought leadership by bringing outside in perspective in making key technology decisions
 * Define technical standards and ensure solutions are aligned with the enterprise reference architecture standards, patterns and best practices.
 * Prototype the tools and technologies that helps to evaluate early design decisions, improve predictability and to reduce risk
 * 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., To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
 * At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
 * Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
 * Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
 * Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
 * Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

SSN Alert Statement

Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40


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