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The Lead Business Information Architect is a key driver responsible for developing, evangelizing, and maintaining the enterprise's information landscape. This role ensures that business concepts, data definitions, and metadata are consistently aligned to technical models, validated, governed, and understood across the organization, driving enterprise-wide alignment and reuse. The Lead Business Information Architect drives design, implementation, tracking, and stewardship of enterprise ontologies, information models, and data standards, enabling high-quality analytics, regulatory compliance, data interoperability, and scalable data governance practices. The incumbent operates as an ontology expert, constructing complex implementations, driving engagement, and leading senior stakeholders both internal and external to the team.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Enterprise Information Architecture & Ontology Leadership

• Develop enterprise ontologies, business glossaries, and semantic models to unify understanding of core business concepts across all business units and platforms.

• Lead the development and evolution of canonical data models, conceptual information models, and domain models at scale, ensuring strategic alignment and reusability.

• Drive alignment of ontologies and information models with enterprise strategy, regulatory requirements, and operational imperatives.

• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture and Data Platform delivery teams to enable and scale usability across the enterprise.

Metadata Management & Data Governance Enablement

• Serve as the subject matter expert for metadata and business glossary standards, collaborating with Data Stewards, and Data Owners to ensure standardized business terms, definitions, relationships, and lineage.

• Oversee the enhancement of metadata quality through governance processes, stewardship workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Drive the adoption, integration, and optimization of metadata management tools to ensure consistency with enterprise information architecture standards.

Enterprise Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with senior solution architects, engineering leaders, enterprise architecture leaders, platform delivery leaders, analytics executives, and business stakeholders to embed business information architecture into strategic data products, integration patterns, and analytics platforms.

• Promote the definition and adoption of semantic layers, shared business definitions, and reusable information patterns across cross-functional teams.

• Translate complex business strategies and concepts into structured, enterprise-scale information models, providing thought leadership and mentorship.

Standards, Policies, and Framework Stewardship

• Establish and govern enterprise standards for ontology modeling, naming conventions, metadata taxonomy, and semantic alignment.

• Lead the evolution of enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and domain governance structures in partnership with senior stakeholders.

• Ensure adherence to industry best practices in information architecture, FAIR data principles, and semantic data governance, and proactively monitor emerging trends and technologies.

Information Quality, Risk, and Compliance Leadership

• Identify, assess, and resolve complex inconsistencies in data definitions, business rules, and semantic structures, driving enterprise-wide remediation and best practices.

• Lead support for regulatory, risk, and audit requirements by ensuring data meaning, provenance, and lineage are traceable, documented, and defensible.

• Provide subject-matter expertise and guidance on data meaning, business context, and strategic data initiatives at the enterprise level.

You will report to a Director, Enterprise Data Governance.

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Business, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in information architecture, data governance, semantic modeling, or related disciplines, with significant experience in a leadership or principal capacity.

• Demonstrated mastery of enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).

• Proven experience in designing and governing ontologies, taxonomies, conceptual models, and semantic frameworks at enterprise scale.

• Advanced understanding of data governance principles, data lifecycle management, data quality, and stewardship.

• Advanced ability to translate complex business concepts into clear, structured enterprise information models.

• 2 or more years of project leadership experience

• Demonstrated ability to run large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for multiple project teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree

• Experience leading information architecture initiatives within modern data ecosystems (e.g., lakehouse architectures, data mesh, semantic layers).

• Familiarity with advanced knowledge graph technologies (e.g., RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL).

• Significant background in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, manufacturing).

• Advanced certifications (e.g., CDMP, DGSP, TOGAF).

Additional Information

This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.

Work Style: This position will have a hybrid work style with 2 days per week in office and 3 days per work remote/home

Office Location Options:

• Louisville, KY

• Washington, DC (Arlington, VA)

• Dallas, TX

• Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Chicago, IL

• New York, NY

• Nashville, TN

Why Humana?

At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:

• Work-Life Balance

• Generous PTO package

• Health benefits effective day 1

• Annual Incentive Plan

• 401K - Excellent company match

• Well-being program

• Paid Volunteer Time Off

If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.

Work at Home Guidance

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

• Associates 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 associates 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

SSN Alert Statement

Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.

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.

$117,600 - $161,700 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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About Us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our 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 and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

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