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.


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