Senior Technology Leadership Professional - Systems/Cloud
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 40201, USA
Listed on 2026-03-12
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Consultant, IT Project Manager
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As a senior technical leader in this domain, you will guide architectural discussions and shape key strategic initiatives. The plans and strategies you help define will be shared across departments and with Humana’s executive leadership. In addition, senior technical leads in this area have the opportunity to begin growing their people leadership skills by providing direct oversight of contractors. While the role is primarily technical, you will also participate in budget planning, procurement activities, and the creation of executive level documentation and reporting—positioning the ideal candidate for strong long term career growth at Humana.
The Senior Technology Leadership Professional works with design engineering and test team to drive products from design completion to volume production release. Performs various engineering tests to verify and validate product designs. Supports product evaluation and qualification on leading edge technology components. Ensures that production schedules are followed and product(s) meet specifications and quality requirements. Interacts with product engineering, quality, manufacturing and marketing teams to analyze and provide technical support to help resolve customers' product related problems/issues.
Begins to influence department’s strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related field
- 5+ years in technology leadership, supporting delivery across multi-application portfolios, with demonstrated budget stewardship and cost optimization.
- Experience with open systems, cloud and legacy technologies to include data planning experience (Medallion/data lakes) and development Standards
- Experience with technology solutions, designs, assessments and/or strategy planning oversight
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across varying levels of personnel
- Experience with SAFe, Agile, SCRUM, or KANBAN or equivalent agile leadership credentials.
- Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
- Willing to work in a Hybrid environment
- Six Sigma Certified
- MBA or other Advanced Degree
- Experience managing million dollar budgets, portfolio roadmaps, or large scale migrations
- Some mainframe systems knowledge
- People management skills
- Proven experience modernizing legacy applications to cloud native architectures (Azure), including Kubernetes containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using generative AI and training others on prompt engineering, AI coding tools, etc.
- Insurance or Healthcare knowledge (Medicare/Medicaid)
- Azure Pipelines, Vue.js (front end exposure), infrastructure as code concepts, and SRE/operational excellence practices.
Humana offers a variety of benefits to promote the best health and well-being of our employees and their families. We design competitive and flexible packages to give our employees a sense of financial security—both today and in the future, including:
- Health benefits effective day 1
- Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
- Recognition pay
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Tuition assistance
- Scholarships for eligible dependents
- Parental and caregiver leave
- Employee charity matching program
- Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
- Career development opportunities
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…
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