Senior Enterprise Architect

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Seeking a strategic and experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise architecture initiatives, establish technology standards, and drive modernization across complex technology environments. This role partners with business and technology leaders to develop architectural strategies, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure alignment between technology investments and organizational objectives.

The Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architecture Practices, is responsible for defining and advancing enterprise-wide architecture strategies that support business growth, operational excellence, and technology modernization. This role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, guiding technology investment decisions and ensuring alignment between business priorities and enterprise architecture standards.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise across application, infrastructure, cloud, data, and integration domains, with a proven ability to lead complex transformation initiatives, establish governance practices, and drive the adoption of scalable, secure, and innovative technology solutions across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Lead architecture efforts supporting enterprise transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms, and vendors to support strategic decision-making.
• Develop architecture patterns and capability models across application, infrastructure, network, and data domains.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and collaborate with security, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Provide guidance on technology selection, governance, risk management, and enterprise standards compliance.
• Drive architecture maturity and promote best practices across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience, including architecture, engineering, or software development roles.
• 5+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Experience leading architecture efforts for complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance, and technology standards.
• Experience developing reference architectures and technology patterns, including Microservices, ETL/Data Integration, Cloud, API-driven, and Serverless architectures.
• Experience conducting technology evaluations, solution assessments, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Architecture certifications such as TOGAF, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Agile, SAFe, and DevSecOps practices.
• Healthcare or highly regulated industry experience.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

Use your skills to make an impact

As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in advancing enterprise-wide technology strategy and architecture practices. You will partner with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams to ensure solutions align with organizational goals, architectural standards, and long-term technology roadmaps.

This role requires the ability to balance strategic vision with practical execution, influence technical decisions across multiple domains, and drive adoption of modern architecture patterns that improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and a passion for enabling innovation through enterprise architecture.

• 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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.