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Humana Lead Enterprise Architect - Productivity in Lincoln, Nebraska
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This role leads the enterprise capability for technology financial management by equally integrating Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps disciplines to drive measurable improvements in cost transparency, infrastructure productivity, and cloud financial performance. The position owns the translation of cost and consumption insights into execution—ensuring accountability for efficiency, optimization, and sustained productivity improvements across infrastructure and cloud services.
The role establishes and operates enterprise cost transparency frameworks that provide a consistent, trusted view of service economics, unit costs, and consumption drivers across compute, storage, network, hosting, and end user services. Leveraging deep TBM knowledge and Apptio platforms—including Cost Transparency, IT Planning, and Total Cost of Ownership—the role ensures cost models are actionable, decision oriented, and embedded into operational and financial governance. These capabilities enable teams to plan, benchmark, and manage technology services with clarity and discipline.
A core responsibility of the role is driving execution against productivity and efficiency objectives. Working closely with infrastructure, engineering, and operations teams, the role converts financial insight into concrete actions such as asset utilization improvements, service rationalization, automation initiatives, modernization roadmaps, and demand management. The role defines productivity metrics and cost per unit benchmarks and holds teams accountable for year over year improvements in capacity efficiency, service performance, and cost outcomes.
The role also defines and leads the enterprise FinOps operating model, balancing financial governance with engineering execution. It oversees cloud cost allocation, forecasting, rightsizing, optimization, and consumption management, while advancing FinOps maturity across the organization. Through cross functional collaboration and governance forums, the role ensures clear ownership of cloud spend, drives optimization backlogs, and reinforces financially responsible engineering behaviors as cloud usage scales.
Across both TBM and FinOps, the role focuses on closing the gap between insight and action. It delivers financial analysis, scenario modeling, and performance reporting that directly inform prioritization, investment trade offs, and modernization decisions. The role establishes governance structures, financial controls, and KPIs that reinforce transparency, accuracy, and accountability, ensuring infrastructure and cloud services are managed as products with clear cost, performance, and value outcomes aligned to enterprise standards.
The Lead Enterprise Architect integrates hardware, software and network interfaces to form a system. Recommends products that will evolve the organization's technical infrastructure. Provides leadership in developing the organization's technical and architectural staff. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) 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 variable factors and determining the best course of action.
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Required Qualifications
Possess 10+ years of progressive experience leading continuous improvement efforts, evaluating existing systems and implementing process and optimization improvements.
Possess 5+ years of experience in IT Financial Management - analyzing and reporting budget vs. actuals, developing Unit Costing and cost allocations to Towers, Applications and Business Services
Experience with Bill of IT to Business and IT Benchmarking costs/services versus peers and/or industry trends
Ability to connect technology investments to measurable business value or run-rate efficiency improvements
Ability to communicate effectively and deliver presentations to senior leaders
Advanced experience producing financial analysis, metrics, measurements and trend reports
Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines with attention to detail
Advanced experience leading special projects and producing metrics, measurements and trend reports
Be a self-starter and be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s Degree in IT, Business, Finance or a related field or equivalent experience
10+years of experience in Project, Program or Portfolio management
Experience with Apptio, ServiceNow, LeanIX, Azure DevOps, Jira Align a plus
Understanding of IT spend across Run, Grow and Transform
Experience working directly with senior leadership
Agile SAFe Certification
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
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.
$142,300 - $195,700 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: 04-11-2026
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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