Associate Director, Multi-Cloud Network Architecture- Remote

The Associate Director, Cloud Network Architecture will design, provide vision and strategy, develop, and execute Humana's Cloud Network architecture and environments.

This is a management and leadership position that will direct and scale the team efficiently to support Humana's growth in healthcare services.

This role will provide thought leadership, strategic design, engineering solutions and execution, across Humana's private and public cloud networks and third party ecosystems.

Given the network's criticality to Humana's overall business strategy, this leader must bring a vision of how the future of network technology can enable scale and velocity while maintaining stability and consistency.

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.

This leader will evolve and own the one uniting factor that will ensure smooth operations, remain highly resilient, drive agile product development capabilities, and host core services that keep Humana and its customers connected and productive-the Network.

The AD of Cloud Network Architecture is expected to bring recent Cloud and network architecture experience , with the engineering and operational experience and rigor that is commensurate with the increasing scale and complexity of Humana's enterprise.

This management position will have the experience of leading a major enterprise successfully through such digital transformations as migration to cloud infrastructures, enabling and transitioning to microservices, software defined networks and connectivity multiple cloud service providers together.

• Modernize cloud network architecture and create the ability to scale at speed, leveraging new technologies, and driving software-defined networking practices and capabilities
• Define cloud networking design standards, connectivity policies and patterns for architecture approval
• Work across functions and business units to be the point person for cloud network architecture & connectivity
• Manage transition to cloud for network & security services
• Gather requirements and analyze data to build high-performance network environments
• Determine where automation and simplification will increase efficiencies
• Transition group from reactive to proactive approach from a network strategy mindset
• Manage, grow and develop a team of top talent
• Interface with external vendors and network peers in a clear and concise manner
• Approach monitoring and telemetry with Devops SRE network mindset using multiple solutions to paint the right analysis
• Collaborate with Infrastructure team members and others as necessary to assess near and long-term network capacity needs
• Build in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across segments and/or enterprise-wide
• Makes decisions that are typically related to intradepartmental coordination, development and implementation of strategic plans, and business outcomes

• 6 or more years of experience designing, deploying, maintaining, and improving cloud networks
• 3 years of recent and progressive technical experience in cloud network technologies
• 2 or more years of management experience
• Experience in leading and facilitating technology transformations to cloud services such as Azure, AWS and GCP
• Experience building and securing high availability applications using cloud native tools (Load balancers, Route 53, WAF, etc.)
• Intermediate knowledge of at least one Infrastructure-as-a-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Automation is in your DNA
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

• Strong executive and people leadership skills; demonstrated track record of building and developing strong teams
• Experience leading legacy transformations at scale, while navigating complexity and regulatory frameworks
• Capable of working up, down, and across an organization, effectively navigating a matrix to get things done and push boundaries, simultaneously
• Ability to lead and create 'followership' with an existing and expanding team
• Deep technical experience in network design, build and administration
• Strong engineering expertise, ideally applied in a progressive leading-edge organization with scale and complexity
• Prior experience in the health solutions industry

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