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Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Hybrid
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Serve as the technical lead for strategic AI initiatives, driving architecture, design decisions, and engineering excellence.
Design and build scalable, secure, cloud-native AI platforms and services.
Architect solutions leveraging generative AI, large language models, intelligent document processing, and data-driven applications.
Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning efforts.
Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that enable teams to deliver at scale.
Provide technical guidance across the full software development lifecycle.
AI Solution Development
Build end-to-end AI solutions, including APIs, microservices, data pipelines, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks.
Develop production-grade applications integrating AI and machine learning capabilities.
Partner with platform, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.
Drive technical execution from concept through production deployment in an agile delivery environment.
Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies to accelerate innovation and business value.
Mentorship & Team Leadership
Mentor and develop software engineers and data scientists through technical coaching and hands-on collaboration.
Promote best practices in software engineering, AI development, cloud architecture, and operational excellence.
Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and high-quality execution.
Help teams balance rapid delivery with long-term maintainability and technical excellence.
AI Governance & Operational Excellence
Implement evaluation, testing, and validation frameworks for AI-powered applications.
Support monitoring, performance optimization, and incident response for AI systems in production.
Drive responsible AI practices focused on reliability, security, compliance, and risk management.
Ensure AI solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, operational readiness, and governance.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
Proven experience building and delivering large-scale, production-grade software platforms.
Strong backend development expertise with Python, Java, or similar languages.
Experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives from architecture through deployment.
Experience working in agile environments with frequent delivery and iteration.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience building and deploying AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions in production.
Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and modern AI application architectures.
Knowledge of AI orchestration frameworks, agent-based systems, and model-serving platforms.
Experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure cloud platforms.
Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, OCR, and intelligent document processing.
Background in data engineering, data science, or MLOps.
Experience building APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Experience operating within complex or highly regulated enterprise environments.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Additional Information
Location & Work Style
This is a hybrid role based in one of our technology hub locations: Louisville, KY; Nashville, TN; Tampa, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; or Dallas, TX. Team members are expected to work onsite several days per week to collaborate with engineering, product, and business partners while maintaining flexibility to work remotely.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay 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.
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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
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. 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.
