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At Humana, we are on a mission to provide an exceptional engineering experience for our community of 5K+ developers. We believe that happy and productive developers create essential features that enhance our members' well-being and overall experience with our products. As the Associate Director of Engineering Practices & Workflow in the Enterprise Engineering Enablement organization, you will play a crucial role in enabling and evolving Humana's DevOps and Engineering practices across all IT segments. Your work will enable application teams to have a world-class developer experience while also enabling adherence to enterprise standards and governance for DevOps.

The ideal candidate for this role will need to have a unique mix of leadership experience, proficiency with applying DevOps principles to software delivery, understanding of enabling developers at enterprise scale, and be exceptional at leading people through change. You will need to have the skillset to apply your DevOps and delivery expertise to an entire IT organization and be the catalyst for an enterprise-wide organizational change effort. 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 self-service automation, standardization, and processes simplification in order to help streamline software delivery.

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Required Qualifications

You will crush this role if:

• You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• You have 6 or more years of technical and 1+ 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 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 have experience with enterprise-grade engineer platforms similar to Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, SonarQube, Artifactory, TFE or their industry standard equivalents
• You are detail oriented and have the ability to set and deliver on outcome oriented goals with your team
• You understand the interaction between Agile and DevOps practices and how maturity in both of these areas will ultimately lead to better outcomes for software delivery teams
• 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 have a passion for data, and use it to inspire people to take action. You don't mind getting hands-on to achieve this outcome
• 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 DevOps practices
• You are process oriented and have experience putting in place operational team processes to service the needs of a large internal customer base
• You understand the technical aspects of what good DevOps and engineering practices are well enough to coach other teams and be respected as a subject matter expert across the company
• 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 for the Engineering Workflow team @ Humana will put you right in the middle of some amazing transformational work

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points:

• You hold a Master's or Doctorate's degree
• You used to be a software or DevOps engineer, 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 cloud technologies, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and emerging DevOps trends like 'GitOps' combined with 'pull' based deployment techn