Senior Enterprise Architect

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The Senior Enterprise Architect translates business needs into technical systems solutions and architectural roadmaps. The Senior Enterprise Architect work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will serve as a strategic technology leader supporting the organization’s digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization initiatives. This role will define target-state architecture, guide complex solution designs, and ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, architectural governance, and business priorities.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will collaborate with application teams, infrastructure teams, security partners, business leaders, and vendors to develop scalable, secure, and practical architecture solutions. This position will also create reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, standards, and implementation guidance that enable teams to adopt modern technology efficiently and consistently.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Lead architecture planning for complex enterprise, cloud, application modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Guide teams in designing, building, modernizing, and migrating applications and services to cloud environments.
• Establish reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, standards, playbooks, and technical guardrails.
• Evaluate technologies, products, and services for scalability, security, interoperability, cost, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical workshops, design discussions, and proofs of concept.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, design trade-offs, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure solutions comply with architecture, governance, security, data-management, and technology standards.
• Provide technical guidance throughout implementation and confirm that delivered solutions align with approved designs.
• Partners with business leaders, engineers, architects, security teams, and vendors to establish priorities and resolve technical challenges.
• Present architecture recommendations, risks, and strategic options to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to architects, developers, and engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 10+ years of experience in application design, software development, systems engineering, or technology architecture.

• Progressive experience as an enterprise architect, solution architect, cloud architect, senior technical lead, or similar role.

• Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise applications, platforms, or technology domains.

• Experience with cloud, hybrid-cloud, application modernization, or legacy-system transformation initiatives.

• Experience developing target-state architecture, solution designs, technology roadmaps, and reference architectures.

• Strong knowledge of scalability, resiliency, security, availability, observability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.

• Experience with enterprise integration technologies, including APIs, web services, messaging, or event-driven architecture.

• Experience applying architecture governance, information security requirements, and enterprise technology standards.

• Strong analytical, technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills.

• Ability to independently lead complex architecture initiatives and influence decisions across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience designing or governing solutions in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or another major cloud environment.
• Relevant cloud or architecture certification, such as Azure Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or TOGAF.
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, application rationalization, or enterprise integration planning.
• Experience with microservices, containers, serverless technologies, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience developing architecture standards and reusable solutions adopted across multiple teams.

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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.$117,600 - $161,700 per yearThis 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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our 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 and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

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