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As the Director Platform Engineering, you will lead a team of highly skilled engineers responsible for designing, building, executing, maintaining and defining the product strategy for the foundational technology stacks that power our healthcare solutions. You will play a critical role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems, enabling us to deliver innovative and impactful healthcare services to millions of patients. This role will provide technical leadership across Humana's subsidiaries.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a long-term compute platform product strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives.
• Team Management: Recruit, hire, and develop a talented team of engineers. Provide mentorship and guidance to foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Technical Leadership: Oversee the design, architecture, and implementation of compute platforms, including virtualization and middleware technologies across Humana subsidiaries.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of compute platforms to ensure high availability, low latency, and scalability.
• Security and Compliance: Implement robust security measures and compliance frameworks to protect patient data and meet industry regulations.
• Cost Management: Manage compute platform costs effectively while balancing performance and reliability requirements.
• Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in the compute platform space. Identify opportunities to leverage new technologies to improve our systems and services.

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Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure management
• 5 years directly leading engineering teams.
• 2+ yeares of experience deploying compute platform technologies, including virtualization, middleware technologies, cloud, database and storage.
• 2+ years experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performance distributed systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Experience in the healthcare industry is a plus.

Additional Information

This position follows a remote work style however the candidate must live close to one of our designated IT locations: Louisville, KY; Tampa, FL; Dallas, TX; Boston, MA; New York City; Washington, D.C: Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, Chicago, IL or Charlotte, NC

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. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you pertaining to your relevant skills and experience at a time that is best for your schedule.

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

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.

 

$156,600 - $215,400 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.

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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