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Humana Senior Application Architect in Montgomery, Alabama
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Lead the Architecture Behind Humana’s Next Generation PBM Platform
Humana, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology leader, is transforming how millions of people access, understand, and experience pharmacy benefits. As a Senior Application Architect, you will play a key strategic role in shaping the technical direction of Humana’s Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) ecosystem—designing scalable, secure, and highly integrated systems that power mission critical healthcare experiences.
This is a high-impact role for an architect who excels at system design, API and integration strategy, technical leadership, and guiding engineering teams toward modern, sustainable solutions.
What You’ll Do
Define & Drive Architecture Strategy
- Lead the design of application and integration architectures that power Humana’s PBM systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, cloud-ready, and aligned with enterprise architecture direction.
Guide Technical Planning & System Design
- Translate business needs into well‑defined architectural patterns, solution blueprints, and technical roadmaps that support long-term growth and modernization.
Ensure Cohesive, Enterprise-Grade Integration
- Evaluate and align APIs, data flows, and service interactions across interdependent systems, promoting consistency, reuse, and interoperability across Humana’s technology landscape.
Lead Architecture Governance & Technical Quality
- Champion architectural standards, conduct design reviews, identify design risks, and provide guidance to engineering teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise expectations for performance, resilience, and maintainability.
Collaborate With Engineering & Leadership
- Partner with engineering leads, product owners, and enterprise architects to shape platform strategy—advising on tradeoffs, influencing decision-making, and ensuring architectural alignment across teams.
Mentor & Elevate the Technical Organization
- Coach developers and technical leads on architectural best practices, modern design patterns, and high-quality implementation approaches that improve engineering maturity and delivery velocity.
Who You Are
You are an architect who enjoys:
Designing modern, enterprise-scale architectures
Tackling integration complexity across large ecosystems
Guiding teams toward cleaner, smarter architectural choices
Influencing technical strategy and modernization roadmaps
Translating business needs into scalable system designs
Improving system quality, performance, and long‑term sustainability
You’re comfortable operating with autonomy, navigating ambiguity, and making technical decisions that influence multiple teams and systems.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
7+ years of progressive experience as a senior developer or technical engineer on large-scale IT projects
Prior experience as an application architect and/or technical team lead
Strong understanding of modern architecture practices (microservices, API-first design, cloud-native patterns, event-driven systems, layered architectures, etc.)
A passion for creating technology that improves healthcare and consumer experiences
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience designing architectures in healthcare, PBM, or similarly regulated industries
Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, domain-driven design, or cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Why Join Humana’s Architecture Team?
Influence the direction of technology powering a mission-critical PBM ecosystem
Work with strong engineering and product partners in a modern agile environment
Help define architectural frameworks and standards for a Fortune 100 organization
Contribute to technology that meaningfully improves health outcomes and consumer experiences
Enjoy opportunities for career growth in one of the nation’s largest healthcare technology organizations
Additional Information
Why Humana?
At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:
Work-Life Balance
Generous PTO package
Health benefits effective day 1
Annual Incentive Plan
401K - Excellent company match
Well-being program
Paid Volunteer Time Off
If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.
Work-At-Home Requirements
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 recommended; 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.
SSN Alert Statement
Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.
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.
$106,900 - $147,000 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: 03-25-2026
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.