Lead Solutions Architect

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 Background

At Humana, we are dedicated to improving the health outcomes of every person we serve! In the last decade, Humana has grown from serving 10 million customers to 18 million, expanded our Medicaid presence from one state to more than a dozen states, grew our primary care presence, and entered new businesses such as Home Health!

We are seeking a Lead Solutions Architect who loves the challenge of solving problems and improve people’s lives. You’ll have a heavy emphasis on software and system engineering/development and cloud to strengthen capabilities, layout technology services, streamline practices/processes and enable delivery teams to be effective. You’ll collaborate with business and information technology partners, fellow architects, engineers, delivery teams and leaders in the Insurance segment to make a major impact in the Medicare and Medicaid business by developing strategies, defining world-class solutions, improve operational efficiencies, and support technology governance.

The Lead Solutions Architect represented here must have specialized experience and skills as it relates deep software and system engineering, cloud and multicloud, and software development in general, which is meant to improve the experience of engineers with a focus on what they do best in business delivery. 

The Lead Solutions Architect works, collaborates and partners with the Enterprise, segments, business entities, lines of business, and various domains across Insurance like Enrollment, Product, Claims, Provider, Clinical and Customer Service, etc., to set the future direction, innovate, craft and deliver solutions, define technology standard and patterns and seeks opportunities to streamline and simplify operations. The Lead Solution Architect plays a pivotal role in recommendations and outcomes for business problems throughout the health insurance segment.

The Lead Solutions Architect is instrumental to address a diverse scope of responsibility from minor to complex issues where thorough analysis, assessment and thought are required in terms the business and information technology can understand.

The Lead Solutions Architect advises executives to develop functional strategies on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks and works under minimal supervision. Uses independent judgment requiring analysis of multiple factors and determining the best course of action.

The ideal candidate has a passion for data as a core asset, the skillset and desire to craft solutions that apply leading technology to real-world business problems, and excellent communication and teamwork. The ideal candidate will be a key partner to the business and information technology leaders they support.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required

• Experience leading architecture in modernization, transformation and transition journeys.
• Experience with developing and influencing strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience working with engineers and delivery teams.
• Experience in diverse technologies from leading edge, modern to legacy such as Augmented and Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language, SaaS, Cloud (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services) .net, Java, Mainframe, etc.
• Proven track record of driving efficiency measures in larger scale organizations.
• Demonstrated experience participating in, interacting with, and improving architecture practices.
• Ability to build strong relationships with business and information technology partners, including communicating complex technology concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Contributed to establishing standards, patterns, policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Strong leadership, analytical, organization, communication and problem-solving skills enabling sound decision making.

Required Specialized Skills

• Has the ability to shift the mindset and to disrupt the norm or status-quo in a positive, firm way. 
• Has proven experience with developing a clear, straight forward engineering practice through collaboration to address methods, patterns, standards to help engineers deliver quality, reliable software and systems for business outcomes.
• Knows how to elevate, empower, influence, build trust with and created an exceptional experience for software and system engineers, technologists and leaders across multiple domains, products teams and technologies.
• Knows how to listen to, understand concerns of, open the voice of and establish quality collaboration between software and system engineers and other teams to address needs and show how to engage leaders across the organization.
• Has been a coach and mentor to software and system engineers to improve their careers and day-to-day life as an engineer.
• Has experience with software and system development life cycles (SDLC), capability maturity model integration (CMMI) and scaled agile framework (SAFe).
• Has proven experience with software development strategies and best practices.
• Well versed and proficient with coding practices overall and in several programming languages such as .Net, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Python.
• Well versed with self-service testing, automated testing, test data management with proper configurations in various tools.
• Has deep proven experience with developing software for human centered experience design user interfaces, integration services producer/consumer with restful/json endpoints, understands data translation services and pipelines and is versed in client/server and clientless apps.
• Has proven experience with best methods related to branching and tiering strategies.

• Has proven experience cloud and multicloud strategies and best practices .
• Has deep, core proven experience configuring and automating  for self-service capabilities, service virtualization, clusters and containers of native cloud infrastructure as a service, platform as a service in relationship to DevOps, pipelines, software. engineering/development, system engineering and packaged software.
• Has cloud auto-scaling and high availability, always-on, experience and expertise to address business operations through the highs and lows of business cycles.
• Has multicloud expertise and experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to address reliable services cross and inter-cloud.

Values and Attitude

• Has a great positive attitude, is a go getter and can be pragmatic when necessary.
• Enthusiasm and self-motivation essential; a confident change-agent.
• Has an agile, coaching and mentoring mindset.
• Passionate and obsessed about contributing to an organization focused on consumer experiences and health outcomes of people.
• Able to cultivate uniqueness, rethink routine, pioneer simplicity, collaborate and partner, build relationships, inspire health and wellbeing.
• Able to adapt to change and progress forward with enthusiasm.
• Most importantly, able to be a Team member and contribute to a cohesive Team.

Education and Work Experience

• Must possess an accredited bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science with 12 years of progressive demonstrated work experience in software engineering and development, integration development and cloud engineering/architecture and 6 years of progressive information technology architecture experience.

Work-At-Home Requirements:

• WAH requirements: Must have the ability to provide a high speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.
• A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25x10 (25mpbs download x 10mpbs upload) is required.  
• Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.
• A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

Preferred

• Experience in Health insurance industry (Medicaid, Medicare, Specialty etc.).
• Conducted Vendor evaluation and selection process for technology platforms.
• Professional experience in a role with strategic planning, resource planning, business process engineering, lean portfolio management and budgeting.
• Ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization.
• Experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab
• Experience with Jfrog, Jenkins or Chef
• Experience with Kafka, Databricks, Apigee and Swagger
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible or Puppet to assist avoiding drift in tiers keeping Prod, Stage, Integration, QA, Dev clean and the same.
• Experience with coding and testing augmented or artificial intelligence.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$139,500 - $192,000 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to 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 veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

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