Senior Application Architect Work at Home / Virtual Optional

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Description

The Senior Application Architect designs and develops IT applications architecture solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards. The Senior Application Architect work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Responsibilities

The Senior Application Architect performs technical planning, architecture development and modification of specifications. Develops specifications for new products/services, applications and service offerings. Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent applications. 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.

This position will be responsible for applications that support our Commercial Group segment, specifically capabilities related to product, pricing, quoting, group installation, group administration and retention. These applications currently have enhancements inflight to accommodate the growth strategy defined by the segment. In addition, these applications have started an aggressive initiative to upgrade off of legacy technologies. And finally, many of these capabilities will be transformed into Salesforce and other software solutions over the next number of years. We're looking for an individual who can lead, guide and consult through these various initiatives as we look to grow the business, modernize these applications and transform the user experience.

Responsibilities

Develop Partnerships

Work with business owners to modify current business processes to improve their efficiency and accuracy

Partner with business owners to propose and analyze potential technology solutions to business opportunities

Collaborate with other Development, Infrastructure and Security teams

Application Oversight

Perform regular reviews of existing application architecture

Recommend when portions of current architecture should be replaced with new components/technologies

Ensure that application architecture documentation is kept up to date with any new technology or configuration changes

Design, develop and support our application roadmap

Application Solutions

Understand business purpose of software solution requests

Provide ROM and detailed estimates

Research IT products/services to determine usefulness and compatibility

Make decisions regarding IT products/services, applications and service offerings that are diverse in scope and complex in nature

Design application architecture solutions to meet business needs in alignment with enterprise architecture direction and standards

Lead architecture/design sessions, build consensus among architects and other stakeholders to create solutions

Team Leadership

Provide leadership and direction to team members responsible for planning, analysis and design of software solutions

Drive innovation, roadmaps, upgrades and future technologies

Lead team through their DevOps journey

Recommend appropriate performance monitoring, alerts and error reporting across applications

Provide guidance on remediation of application security vulnerabilities

Contribute to disaster recovery planning, documentation and execution

Mentor team members

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

7 or more years of experience as a senior developer in large IT projects

Prior project architect and/or team lead experience

Demonstrates technical curiosity, strategic thinking in design and implementation

Ability to lead an onshore-offshore team model in combination with remote associates

Ability to multi-task across multiple initiatives

Experience with .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL, Web API's, Web Services, MQ

DevOps implementation experience

Excellent communication and negotiation skills

Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree

Additional Information

The following policy applies ONLY to associates working in the state of Arizona:

Humana is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment and to promoting the health and well-being of its associates. Effective July 1, 2011, Humana has adopted a tobacco-free hiring policy that will promote a healthier workplace and will not hire users of tobacco and nicotine products. If you have any questions, please consult with your recruiter.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com