Lead Full Stack Engineer, AI Solutions

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* Humana is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer, AI Solutions to lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions across enterprise environments. This role combines hands-on full stack engineering leadership with forward-deployed problem solving, partnering closely with business leaders, architects, and cross-functional teams to translate complex, evolving requirements into secure, production-grade systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience across front-end and back-end development, cloud-native architecture, platform engineering, and modern AI/ML operations. This person will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and work directly with stakeholders to build high-quality solutions that improve business outcomes and align with enterprise standards, governance, and modernization initiatives.

** This position requires a physical presence in one of the following market locations:
** Louisville, KY, Dallas, TX, Washington, DC, and Chicago, IL.

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* Key Responsibilities:

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* + Lead technical architecture, solution design, and engineering vision for business-critical platforms and AI-enabled applications

+ Serve as a senior technical leader across all stages of software development, including front-end development, back-end development, database integrations, APIs, user experience, hosting, and server management

+ Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable, production-ready solutions by partnering with business leaders, solution owners, and enterprise technology teams

+ Drive discovery and workflow mapping to identify automation opportunities, evaluate technical feasibility, and define success metrics

+ Design and prototype cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions, including application architecture, system integrations, deployment patterns, and operational models

+ Build and deploy production-grade applications, RESTful APIs, AI/ML pipelines, and distributed services using approved enterprise technology patterns

+ Lead by example through hands-on engineering across platform, backend, frontend, and mobile technologies

+ Mentor and coach a small team of high-performing engineers, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement

+ Review code, pull requests, and architecture decisions, providing constructive and actionable feedback

+ Evaluate problems strategically and tactically, using strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms to determine the best course of action

+ Partner with senior business and functional leaders to define technical direction and support enterprise decision-making

+ Collaborate with architecture, review, and governance teams, including ARB/TRB and EA/EAI stakeholders, to align solutions with enterprise standards

+ Support implementation of Cloud 3.0 and modernization design patterns, including onboarding, development readiness, deployment, troubleshooting, and security alignment

+ Ensure solutions comply with enterprise processes for architecture review, AI governance, cloud onboarding, and operational readiness

+ Investigate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, tools, and engineering practices that improve speed, quality, scalability, and maintainability

+ Optimize systems based on stakeholder and user feedback, and document workflows and implementation details for operational handoff and long-term support

+ Contribute insights from delivery experiences back to internal product, platform, and architecture teams to improve reusable enterprise capabilities

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* ** Required Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

+ 8+ years of progressive IT experience, including senior-level software engineering experience on large-scale technology initiatives

+ 2+ years of project or technical leadership experience

+ Demonstrated ability to lead significant design and development efforts with minimal supervision

+ Experience building scalable web platforms, enterprise applications, and highly available web services

+ Strong full stack engineering experience across modern front-end and…