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 At Humana, we are on a mission to provide an exceptional experience for our community of developers, testers, product owners, and business partners that deliver software products for our members. We believe that happy and productive delivery teams create essential features that enhance our members' well-being and overall experience with our Humana products. As the Associate Director of AI Enablement in the Enterprise Engineering Enablement organization, you will play a crucial role in enabling and evolving Humana's adoption of Generative AI technologies. Your work will be transformational for our company as we seek to enable enhanced productivity across a wide range of IT disciplines.

The ideal candidate for this role will need to have a unique mix of leadership experience, proficiency with applying modern Agile, Engineering, and DevOps practices to enable software delivery, strong public speaking skills, and be exceptional at leading people through change. You will need to have the skillset to apply your software delivery expertise to an entire IT organization, be the catalyst for an enterprise-wide organizational change effort, and simultaneously ensure smooth product and platform engineering delivery for your own teams responsibilities. You will need to be comfortable working within and leading a matrixed team where influence is more important than official reporting structure. Finally, you will need to have a passion for enablement, coaching, and teaching in order to assist agile and operations teams with adopting new technologies and new ways of working using GAI.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.6 or more years of technical and 2+ years of people leadership experience.You are a caring and compassionate leader focused on enabling team members to grow and achieve their best effort in their role on the team.You enable a culture of collaboration, empowerment, and team cohesiveness where team members are excited about their work and understand the value that they are bringing to the enterprise.You are able to give meaningful and direct feedback to your direct reports in order to promote team member growth and maturity.You value work/life balance and enable a positive team culture that people want to be a part of.You are detail oriented and have the ability to set and deliver on outcome oriented objectives and key results with your team.You understand the interaction between Agile, Engineering, and DevOps practices and how maturity in all of these areas will ultimately lead to better outcomes for software delivery teams. You can coach other agile teams and leaders in these disciplines. You have the ability to work in "the gray" space, making consistent progress towards an outcome that will grow more into focus over time.You are passionate and knowledgeable about the practical applications of GAI capabilities, understand how these emerging capabilities can be leveraged to boost productivity, and have solid expertise in the practice of prompt engineering.You care about feedback loops and are able to receive feedback well, leveraging all kinds of feedback (even negative feedback) to improve processes as well as outcomes.You have demonstrated experience leading a team to the deliver software to production by leveraging modern Agile, Engineering, and DevOps practices.You have experience with cloud infrastructure, both from an operational and a platform engineering perspective.You have experience working with vended software applications, ensuring proper maintenance and life cycle activities, as well as managing vendor relationships. You are process oriented and have experience putting in place operational team processes to service the needs of a large internal customer base.You have experience with organizational change management initiatives and are able to engage in authentic conversations with people to lead them towards a successful change outcome. You are a strong communicator, a connector, and enjoy a highly agile work environment.  Being the leader of AI Enablement @ for Humana IT  will put you right in the middle of some amazing transformational work.You would enjoy collaborating with your peers and senior leaders from across the enterprise as we work to adopt GAI capabilities and new ways of working across Humana.You enjoy creating presentations, bringing awareness to newly delivered features, and communicating progress to senior leaders. 

Preferred Qualifications

You hold a Master's degree.You have worked with GenAI tools to streamline software delivery processes, or have experience integrating GenAI capabilities into software applications.You used to be a software engineer or architect, but decided to put down your IDE and become an engineering leader instead (double bonus points if you're still able to sling a little code from time to time).You have experience with enterprise-grade engineering platforms similar to Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, SonarQube, Artifactory, TFE or their industry standard equivalents.You have experience with cloud technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, and emerging DevOps trends like 'GitOps' combined with 'pull' based deployment technologies like Argo and Terraform Enterprise (TFE).You have a deep understanding of large language models, including how they are trained, and are knowledgeable about trends in this quickly changing technology landscape

Additional Information

Work Location:

Home base is Louisville, KYRemote & Flexible Work Arrangements Available

Reporting Information:

You'll report to the Director of Enterprise DevOps and Enterprise Engineering Enablement.You'll be part of Enterprise Engineering Services organization, the L3 Engineering organization within Technology Strategy.

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.

Come ready with your best memes and your favorite Chuck Norris jokes. We work hard but also have a lot of fun as a team.

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.

 

$142,300 - $195,700 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.

About 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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