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Humana Senior Enterprise Architect in Topeka, Kansas
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Are you interested in leveraging technology and business strategy to deliver improved member experiences and health outcomes to Humana's 26 million members? In Humana's Enterprise Architecture Activation team, 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 Sr. 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.
We would love to meet you if some or all of the below describe you:
Are customer obsessed
Have business-centric outlook
Can understand both strategic and expedient views and balance their trade-offs
Are driven, thorough, and self-directed
Are able to lead through influence and persuasion
Have Enterprise Architecture practice experience
Have healthcare payer domain experience
Have deep solution architecture experience
Are experienced in Hybrid and Cloud architecture and migration at scale
Responsibilities:
Advocacy and Stewardship
Serve as a strong advocate for the business segments within IT
Ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy
Serve as an evangelist to facilitate and drive adoption & delivery of the lean enterprise architecture practice within an agile delivery framework
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
Technical Innovation, Strategy, and Execution
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
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
Create, catalog, maintain and deliver the documentation and artifacts that describe the principles, standards, policies and methodologies of the enterprise architecture practice
Facilitate and advocate for the adoption and delivery of the enterprise architecture within an agile delivery framework
Validate that execution of the technology strategy fulfills the original intent of the business strategy and vision
Deliver an entry point, filter, path, and guidance for successfully navigating the architecture governance process
Use your skills to make an impact
What does the ideal candidate look like? They have:
Progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
Expert knowledge and experience with architecture patters for: enterprise integration, system decomposition, refactoring and cloud migration
Expert knowledge and experience with cloud native architectures on at least one cloud platform provider in an enterprise environment
Expert knowledge and experience with highly available, fault tolerant and event driven architectures at scale
Expert knowledge and experience with Enterprise Architecture, technical strategy, and technology roadmaps
Expert knowledge and experience with lean-agile delivery methodologies in an enterprise environment
Technical expertise in one or more of the following technical domains:
On-premise environments or infrastructure
Identity and Access Management
Data and information management
Information security
Software engineering and delivery
Business Applications
Analytics and Reporting
Robotic Process Automation
Bonus points for expertise in one or more of the following Healthcare Insurance Payer business domains:
Clinical
Pharmacy / Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM)
Medicare / Medicaid / Medicare Supplemental
Group insurance
Finance
Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans
Specialty health care (vision, dental, etc.)
Required Qualifications
Progressive experience as an architect or technical lead in large IT projects spanning multiple enterprise systems
6 or more years design, development, and testing of software applications
Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
Associate or Professional Level Cloud certification in Azure, GCP, or AWS
1-3 years of experience in Cloud technologies or Enterprise Architecture
2+ years of project leadership experience
Additional Information
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
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
Employees 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 employees 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
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 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.
Application Deadline: 01-05-2025
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.
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