VP, Enterprise APIs

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* The Vice President, API Technologies is a senior leader in the Chief Technology Office accountable for the strategy, product management, engineering, governance, modernization, and reliable operation of Humana's enterprise API and integration ecosystem, spanning internal APIs, external partner and ecosystem APIs, and the shared platforms that enable them. As a dedicated enterprise function, this role leads APIs capabilities end to end, from standards, product strategy, the Unified API Gateway, and the Unified API Catalog through the enterprise-wide shift to a consumer-centric Omnichannel API model that delivers consistent, secure experiences across member, provider, associate, and partner touchpoints.

This leader runs APIs as products, treating API producers and consumers, internal and external, as customers. The VP owns the API product roadmap, lifecycle, investment priorities, adoption, reuse, health, and consumer experience. The VP is directly accountable for defining and creating Omnichannel APIs and for governing the modernization journey that migrates producers and consumers to modern, enterprise-aligned interfaces, while retiring redundant APIs, unsupported gateways, and legacy integration technologies.

The role also owns Humana's external API strategy, including the secure exposure of APIs to partners and the broader ecosystem, technical management of API-enabled partnerships, partner certification and onboarding, and the heightened security, privacy, interoperability, support, and continuity requirements of external interfaces.

This is an AI-native function. The VP embeds AI into API design, delivery, governance, testing, and consumer migration, and establishes the enterprise approach for safely exposing approved API capabilities to AI agents through MCP and other emerging agent protocols where appropriate. The role is a primary enabler of interoperability, automation, resilient partner growth, and Humana's 2030 Target State Architecture.

** Scope of Accountability*
* **- API Product Strategy & Management*
* API-as-a-product operating model, including product vision, roadmap, investment, adoption, reuse, consumer experience, value realization, and health metrics.

**- API Standards, Governance & Security*
* Enterprise standards for REST, GraphQL, asynchronous messaging, event-driven APIs, and emerging protocols; full lifecycle governance; UAG and UAC; quality engineering; and API security in partnership with EIP.

**- Omnichannel API Definition & Creation*
* Definition, design, and build of consumer-centric Omnichannel APIs aligned to consumer journeys and providing governed, consistent access to authoritative capabilities and data across channels.

**- API Modernization:
Producers & Consumers*
* Migration of producers and validated active consumers from legacy and point APIs to modern enterprise interfaces, including deprecation, retirement, dependency management, and progress reporting.

**- External APIs, Partnerships & Governance*
* External API strategy, secure exposure, technical partnership management, certification, developer experience, data-use controls, interoperability compliance, continuity, and third-party API consumption.

**- AI-Enabled API Governance & Execution*
* AI-assisted design, code generation, testing, compliance, and migration, plus risk-based MCP and agent-tool enablement with identity, authorization, human approval, auditability, and lifecycle controls.

**- API Operations, Observability & Talent*
* Reliability engineering, SLOs, resilience, incident and problem management, developer enablement, workforce strategy, succession, capability building, and vendor/platform management.

** Key Responsibilities*
* ** 1. API Product Strategy & Management*
* + Own the enterprise API product strategy and operating model, including a published roadmap, investment and funding model, lifecycle, value realization, adoption, reuse, and health metrics.

+ Treat API producers and consumers, internal and external, as customers and use structured voice-of-consumer feedback to prioritize high-leverage, business-critical API products.

+ Maintain a governed API…