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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
Why Join Us
Shape the long-term AI architecture and engineering direction for a large enterprise healthcare organization.
Influence how AI-enabled products are designed, built, evaluated, deployed, and governed across multiple teams.
Drive strategic decisions involving models, vendors, platforms, infrastructure, and shared capabilities.
Prototype and validate emerging technologies before the organization invests at scale.
Establish engineering standards and platform capabilities that will influence the business for years to come.
Solve complex challenges involving trust, explainability, compliance, reliability, and operational excellence in AI systems.
Work on systems that process healthcare information at significant scale and directly support member outcomes.
Remain hands-on with architecture, software development, experimentation, and technical problem solving.
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive the long-term technical strategy, reference architecture, and technology roadmap for AI-enabled products and platforms.
Establish architectural patterns and best practices for retrieval systems, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop processes, evaluation frameworks, and AI governance.
Lead organization-wide technical decision-making regarding model strategy, vendor selection, platform investments, build-versus-buy decisions, and shared infrastructure capabilities.
Design and champion scalable architectures that balance reliability, performance, security, compliance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
Establish engineering standards for evaluation, observability, model lifecycle management, responsible AI practices, and operational excellence.
Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and reference implementations that de-risk emerging technologies and strategic platform investments.
Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and provide technical guidance across multiple engineering teams.
Mentor Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers, and emerging technical leaders through architecture reviews, design feedback, coaching, and technical sponsorship.
Develop and communicate technical roadmaps aligned with business strategy and organizational objectives.
Partner with executive leadership to translate business priorities into technical strategies and communicate technical opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.
Represent engineering in strategic vendor evaluations, compliance discussions, governance reviews, and enterprise planning initiatives.
Drive adoption of common platforms, standards, and engineering practices across teams.
Ensure AI systems are designed and operated in accordance with privacy, security, compliance, governance, and auditability requirements.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Leadership Expectations
Success in This Role
Successful candidates are respected technical leaders who combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution. They influence organizations through technical expertise, data-driven decision-making, and working solutions rather than formal authority alone.
You are energized by difficult, long-horizon problems and are comfortable making high-impact decisions that affect multiple teams and products. You view AI architecture, governance, reliability, and responsible deployment as critical engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts.
Most importantly, you remain a builder. Your strategies are informed by real experience developing, testing, and operating production systems, and your credibility comes from your continued ability to solve hard technical problems through architecture, experimentation, and code.
Technology Stack
Additional Information
This role operates in a highly regulated environment where responsible handling of sensitive and protected information is fundamental. Success requires a commitment to building secure, compliant, auditable, and trustworthy AI systems that meet the highest standards for privacy, reliability, and quality.
Work Style: This position follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring employees to work three days per week in the office and the remaining days remotely. Qualified candidates must currently reside within, or be willing to relocate to, a commutable distance from one of the talent markets.
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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.