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Join our Digital Technology organization as a Lead Application Architect and play a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare technology. This role provides strategic architectural leadership across complex enterprise initiatives, driving the design and implementation of scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions that improve member, provider, and associate experiences.
As a Lead Application Architect, you will define architecture strategies, establish engineering standards, and guide cross-functional teams in building API-first, event-driven, and microservices-based platforms leveraging Azure cloud technologies. You will partner with business and technology leaders to deliver resilient, high-performing digital solutions while mentoring engineering teams and fostering architectural excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Lead architecture and design of enterprise-scale applications using microservices, domain-driven design, and cloud-native principles.
- Define target-state architectures and modernization roadmaps for strategic business capabilities.
- Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
- Drive API-first architecture and enterprise integration strategies.
- Lead architecture reviews, design governance, and technology evaluations.
- Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Guide adoption of Azure-native services including AKS, App Services, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Functions, and Azure Storage.
- Define cloud migration and modernization strategies for legacy applications.
- Event-Driven & Integration Architecture
- Design and govern event-driven architectures leveraging Apache Kafka and related streaming technologies.
- Establish messaging patterns, event contracts, topic governance, and real-time integration strategies.
- Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.
- Drive asynchronous communication patterns across enterprise platforms.
- DevSecOps & CI/CD Enablement
- Champion DevSecOps practices and automation across engineering teams.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines supporting automated testing, security scanning, deployment, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with platform engineering teams to standardize deployment patterns.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies.
- Provide architectural guidance on Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and related automation platforms.
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with product, engineering, security, data, and business teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
- Influence technology strategy and architecture decisions across multiple initiatives.
- Present architecture recommendations and trade-off analyses to senior leadership.
- Mentorship & Governance
- Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads on architecture principles and emerging technologies.
- Lead architecture review boards and technical design sessions.
- Ensure solutions adhere to security, compliance, performance, and scalability standards.
- Foster a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, application architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in microservices architecture and API design.
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud-native development.
- Experience designing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka or equivalent messaging platforms.
- Strong understanding of application integration patterns and distributed systems.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of security, scalability, resiliency, and observability best practices.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and influence architecture decisions across multiple programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Additional Information
Location/Work Style: Remote US
Work at Home Guidance
- 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
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