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The Associate VP, Software Engineering codes software applications based on business requirements. The Associate VP, Software Engineering requires a in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across segments and/or enterprise-wide.

The Associate Vice President, Enterprise Platform Software Engineering will join a high-performing, innovative technology organization focused on quality excellence. This leader will define and advance Humana's enterprise quality engineering platform capabilities-spanning automation-first engineering, AI-enabled quality intelligence, quality architecture, and standards that enable teams across the enterprise to deliver software with greater speed, reliability, and confidence.

This role serves as the strategic owner of the quality engineering ecosystem and enablement model, partnering closely with Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and segment/product technology leaders to deliver scalable, reusable capabilities that improve engineering effectiveness and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Platform Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and execute the enterprise strategy for quality engineering platforms, frameworks, and enablement capabilities.
• Establish and drive a multi-year roadmap aligned to Humana's technology strategy and software delivery priorities.
• Standardize quality engineering tools, patterns, and practices to reduce fragmentation and improve consistency at scale.
• Serve as the executive owner for enterprise shared quality engineering platform services and adoption outcomes.

Enterprise Quality Platform, AI & Automation Enablement

• Lead strategy, development, and continuous evolution of Humana's Quality Engineering Platform as a core enablement capability for delivery teams.
• Establish platform capabilities that support reusable automation frameworks, accelerators, and engineering patterns across teams.
• Enable data-driven quality intelligence through integrated dashboards, scorecards, and reporting that provide visibility into quality and delivery health.
• Drive end-to-end traceability across requirements, test assets, automation, defects, releases, and production outcomes (where supported by enterprise tooling).
• Advance AI-enabled quality capabilities (e.g., intelligent automation, quality insights, predictive analytics) as part of the platform strategy and day-to-day operating model.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability, security, and strong user experience for engineers and quality professionals.

Standards, Quality Architecture & Guardrails

• Define and maintain enterprise quality engineering standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
• Partner with Architecture, Platform Engineering, and DevOps teams to embed quality controls and scalable validation approaches into modern delivery pipelines.
• Establish guardrails for cloud-native and distributed architectures (e.g., microservices, APIs, event-driven systems) including test strategy patterns and quality controls.

Adoption, Partnership & Enterprise Enablement

• Partner with segment/product-aligned quality engineering leaders to drive platform adoption and consistent execution of standards and patterns.
• Provide consulting, coaching, and enablement to engineering organizations to accelerate maturity in modern quality engineering practices.
• Build reusable training, playbooks, and onboarding approaches that improve adoption and reduce time-to-productivity.

Metrics, Insights & Governance (Enablement-Led)

• Partner with enterprise enablement and governance teams to shape and evolve enterprise quality metrics, measurement standards, and reporting approaches.
• Ensure platform capabilities support consistent collection and visibility of enterprise quality signals.
• Drive adherence to enterprise governance expectations across platform usage, standards adoption, and quality reporting.

Talent, Leadership & Organizational Development

• Build and develop a high-performing organization of quality architects, platform engineers, automation leaders, and quality engineering professionals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Create career development pathways and succession depth for enterprise quality engineering platform and enablement roles.

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, platform engineering, and developer enablement.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling enterprise platforms or shared engineering enablement capabilities.
• Proven success driving enterprise adoption of standardized tools, patterns, and ways of working across distributed organizations.
• Experience leading senior leaders and geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.
• Expertise with quality engineering practices across API, UI, integration, and end-to-end validation in distributed/cloud-native environments.
• Experience with quality data, engineering metrics, dashboards/scorecards, and operational insights for executive and delivery audiences.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence outcomes across engineering and product organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience building internal developer platforms, enterprise test harnesses, or quality engineering platforms at scale.
• Familiarity with microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native engineering patterns.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled quality engineering capabilities and intelligent automation in enterprise delivery environments.
• Familiarity with engineering effectiveness and operational excellence measurement approaches (e.g., DORA-aligned signals), platform adoption metrics, and quality maturity models.

Success Measures

• Increased enterprise adoption and sustained usage of the Quality Engineering Platform and shared capabilities.
• Improved automation coverage, stability, and engineering productivity through reusable frameworks and standards.
• Measurable reduction in tooling fragmentation and improved enterprise standardization.
• Improved visibility and actionability of quality insights through trusted dashboards, scorecards, and reporting.
• Demonstrated advancement of enterprise quality engineering maturity and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Strong platform reliability, scalability, and usability outcomes.
• Strong associate engagement, retention, and talent development results within the platform quality engineering organization.

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.

$208,500 - $286,700 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.