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.
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; and 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.
Concretely, we're looking for demonstrated experience with: solution or enterprise architecture on large, matrixed programs; healthcare or highly regulated industries, with pharmacy, PBM, or clinical systems experience a meaningful advantage; integration patterns, cloud-native design, data architecture, and application modernization; communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences and business strategy to engineers without losing either audience; and holding your own alongside consulting partners and senior business stakeholders.
Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards — HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, and related — is a plus, though not a prerequisite. What matters more is a track record of learning complex domains quickly and making sound architectural decisions within them.
Required Qualificatons
- Experience in the Pharmacy space (PBM, Pharma manufacture, Dispencing pharmacy)
- Experience in cloud native design and application mordenization
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards — HL7, FHIR, NCPDP, or other simliar standard
- Experience being technical lead of a team
Preferred Qualifications
- Expereince on a solution or enterprise architecture team
- Experience desiging 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. 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.
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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.
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.Application Deadline: 04-02-2026About us
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
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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. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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