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Candidate must reside in Dallas, Nashville, or Louisville, KY metro locations.
As Lead Solution Architect, you'll be the senior individual contributor on a team with broad accountability across CenterWell's dispensing pharmacy portfolio --- mail order, specialty, retail, and associated platforms. You'll own the architectural vision for complex, multi-system initiatives, shape how technology decisions get made, and act as a connective force between business strategy, engineering execution, and enterprise standards.
This is not a role for someone who wants to stay in their lane. You'll be expected to move fluidly between deep technical work and executive-level conversation, between greenfield design and legacy modernization, and between long-term roadmap thinking and hands-on problem solving.
You'll lead solution design for major initiatives across the pharmacy business, translating complex operational requirements into coherent, scalable architectures. You'll work closely with engineering leads, product managers, clinical stakeholders, and vendor partners to ensure technical decisions are sound, defensible, and aligned to long-term goals. You'll represent the architecture function in governance forums and executive reviews.
Key Responsibilities
Specifically, you can expect to spend your time on:
- Defining and maintaining architectural patterns and standards for the pharmacy technology portfolio.
- Leading architecture for high-complexity programs spanning dispensing systems, clinical platforms, integrations, and data.
- Evaluating build/buy/partner decisions and presenting recommendations to senior leadership.
- Navigating ambiguity --- organizational, technical, and political --- and bringing clarity where others see noise.
- Contributing to the team's overall ways of working, tooling, and maturity.
Use your skills to make an impact
You are the person for this role if you have deep roots in software engineering --- you've written code, you understand why architectural decisions carry the weight they do, and you can engage credibly with engineers at every level. Over time you've grown into someone who thinks in systems: how components interact, where complexity accumulates, and how to design for change rather than just for today.
We don't screen on years of experience. We care about what you've actually built, untangled, and shipped --- the complexity of the problems you've solved and the quality of the thinking you brought to them.
You're comfortable in complex enterprise environments. You know how to read an organization, find the right stakeholders, and build the coalitions that actually move technical decisions forward. You don't wait for perfect information, but you know when a decision needs more rigor.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in cloud native design and application modernization.
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards --- HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, or other similar standard.
- Experience being technical lead of a team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the Pharmacy space (PBM, Pharma manufacture, Dispensing pharmacy).
- Experience on a solution or enterprise architecture team.
- Experience designing a large scale event driven ecosystem.
- Azure or GCP certification.
Additional Information
As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will be using an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring and decision-making ability.
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 required; 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.
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: $142,300 - $195,700 per year. This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
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.
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.