Associate VP Cloud Solutions Engineering

Associate VP Cloud Solutions Engineering

Location: Chicago, IL, United States

Posted on: Dec 01, 2022

Profile:

Humana is a $90 billion (Fortune 40) market leader in integrated healthcare with a clearly defined purpose to help people achieve lifelong well-being. As a company focused on the health and well-being of the people we serve, Humana is committed to advancing the employment experience and vitality of the associate community. Through offerings anchored in a whole-person view of human well-being, Humana embraces a focus on stimulating positive individual and population changes while nurturing a sense of security, enabling people to live life fully and be their most productive.

Humana's technology environment has pivoted from a centralized model over the past several years to a more federated model. This trend will continue and accelerate to the point where Humana's technology assets and users are spread out over hundreds of vendors, offices, and geographies. Against that backdrop, we are seeking an accomplished technology leader for the role of Associate VP, Cloud Solutions Engineering. The focus of this position will be to drive business growth and value by providing a comprehensive suite of infrastructure engineering services through modern cloud, automation, and development-oriented technology approaches.

The AVP of Cloud Solutions Engineering is expected to bring a broad vision to Humana's Technology landscape, with the engineering and operational experience and rigor that is commensurate with the increasing scale and complexity of Humana's enterprise. This position is a senior leader in the Technology organization and requires someone who can bring the experience of leading a major enterprise successfully through digital transformations such as migration to cloud infrastructures, enabling and transitioning to microservices, efficiency and scale through automation and SRE practices, and setting the strategy and vision for modern data management and analytics.

This position can be located anywhere within the lower 48 states.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop vision and strategy for a secure, scalable, reliable, automated cloud platform that enables self-service and frictionless delivery of cloud services at scale.
2. Accelerate development of foundational cloud capabilities that allow for rapid deployment of cloud applications and services.
3. Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year cloud and data strategy to simplify delivery model, reduce hand-offs and drive transformational change.
4. Lead cloud platform engineering transformation to support modern development architecture supporting always-on enterprise applications and services.
5. Define and set data standards products that contain complete, accurate, and detailed measurement throughout the customer journey.
6. Establish best practices to improve data architecture, development process and data reliability.
7. Lead teams who define standards for data architecture and manage the platforms covering areas for data engineering.
8. Integrate and automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers and hybrid cloud platforms to reduce overall delivery times.
9. Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
10. Build in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across segments and/or enterprise-wide.
11. Make decisions related to intradepartmental coordination, development and implementation of strategic plans, and business outcomes.

Key Candidate Qualifications:

1. Extensive (typically 10 years) of technical experience, along with a record of success in leading and facilitating technology transformations to cloud services such as Azure, AWS, and GCP.
2. Proven experience working in an Agile Scrum environment with data engineering solutions like Snowflake, Databricks, and modern database solutions for cloud environments.
3. Strong leadership skills with a record of success in expanding and elevating the capabilities and performance of the team.
4. Bachelor's degree is required; a Master's in a technology field would be a plus.
5. Experience leading legacy transformations at scale, while navigating complexity and regulatory frameworks.
6. Strong engineering expertise, ideally applied in a progressive leading-edge organization with scale and complexity.
7. Strategic thought partnership and ability to learn the business, helping to shape multi-year strategies to support overall business growth.
8. Capable of working up, down, and across an organization, effectively navigating a matrix to get things done and push boundaries.
9. Current or recent experience in a large, highly matrixed company (i.e., Fortune 250), with proven ability to influence leaders and key stakeholders.
10. Excellent oral and written communications skills, with the polish, poise, and executive presence that ensures effective interaction with senior and executive level audiences.
11. Highly collaborative mindset and excellent relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders and SMEs.
12. Extensive executive and people leadership experience (typically 8 years) with a demonstrated track record of building and developing strong teams.
13. Prior experience in the health solutions industry.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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.