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The Senior Business Information Architect is a key contributor responsible for establishing, documenting, advancing, and maintaining the enterprise's information landscape. This role ensures that business concepts, data definitions, and metadata are consistently documented, modeled, governed, and understood across the organization, driving enterprise-wide alignment and reuse. The Senior Architect provides exemplary guidance and support in the design and stewardship of enterprise ontologies, information models, and data standards, enabling high-quality analytics, regulatory compliance, data interoperability, and scalable data governance practices. You will operate as a trusted contributor and thought spokesperson for the governance organization, collaborating across teams and educating the information architecture community.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Enterprise Information Architecture & Ontology Leadership
- Share the vision and direction for enterprise ontologies, business glossaries, and semantic models to unify understanding of core business concepts across all business units and platforms.
- Collaborate on 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 an authority 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.
- Inform on 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, AI delivery leaders, analytics executives, and business stakeholders to embed business information architecture into strategic data products, integration patterns, and analytics platforms.
- Champion the definition and adoption of semantic layers, shared business definitions, and reusable information patterns across cross-functional teams.
- Help translate complex business strategies and concepts into structured, enterprise-scale information models, providing thought leadership and mentorship.
Standards, Policies, and Framework Stewardship
- Review and govern enterprise standards for ontology modeling, naming conventions, metadata taxonomy, and semantic alignment.
- Collaborate on 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.
- Drive support for regulatory, risk, and audit requirements by ensuring data meaning, provenance, and lineage are traceable, documented, and defensible.
- Provide exemplary 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.
- 3-5 years of progressive experience in information architecture, data governance, semantic modeling, or related disciplines, with significant experience in deployment and enforcement.
- Demonstrated understanding of enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).
- Experience with documenting, 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.
- Ability to understand complex business concepts and connect the dots to clear, structured enterprise information models.
- Demonstrated experience with data governance.
- Demonstrated ability to help lead large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for cross-functional project teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree.
- Experience with 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
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.
$97,900 - $133,500 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
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 at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Become a part of our caring community
The Senior Business Information Architect is a key contributor responsible for establishing, documenting, advancing, and maintaining the enterprise's information landscape. This role ensures that business concepts, data definitions, and metadata are consistently documented, modeled, governed, and understood across the organization, driving enterprise-wide alignment and reuse. The Senior Architect provides exemplary guidance and support in the design and stewardship of enterprise ontologies, information models, and data standards, enabling high-quality analytics, regulatory compliance, data interoperability, and scalable data governance practices. You will operate as a trusted contributor and thought spokesperson for the governance organization, collaborating across teams and educating the information architecture community.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Enterprise Information Architecture & Ontology Leadership
- Share the vision and direction for enterprise ontologies, business glossaries, and semantic models to unify understanding of core business concepts across all business units and platforms.
- Collaborate on 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 an authority 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.
- Inform on 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, AI delivery leaders, analytics executives, and business stakeholders to embed business information architecture into strategic data products, integration patterns, and analytics platforms.
- Champion the definition and adoption of semantic layers, shared business definitions, and reusable information patterns across cross-functional teams.
- Help translate complex business strategies and concepts into structured, enterprise-scale information models, providing thought leadership and mentorship.
Standards, Policies, and Framework Stewardship
- Review and govern enterprise standards for ontology modeling, naming conventions, metadata taxonomy, and semantic alignment.
- Collaborate on 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.
- Drive support for regulatory, risk, and audit requirements by ensuring data meaning, provenance, and lineage are traceable, documented, and defensible.
- Provide exemplary 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.
- 3-5 years of progressive experience in information architecture, data governance, semantic modeling, or related disciplines, with significant experience in deployment and enforcement.
- Demonstrated understanding of enterprise metadata management and business glossary tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan).
- Experience with documenting, 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.
- Ability to understand complex business concepts and connect the dots to clear, structured enterprise information models.
- Demonstrated experience with data governance.
- Demonstrated ability to help lead large scale, highly visible programs with responsibility for cross-functional project teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree.
- Experience with 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
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.
$97,900 - $133,500 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
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 at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Which companies sponsor visas for architects in Kentucky?
Louisville-based firms including Luckett & Farley and K. Norman Berry Associates have histories of hiring internationally. Larger national firms with Kentucky offices, such as those working on healthcare or federal infrastructure projects, are generally more likely to sponsor because they have established HR processes and legal teams familiar with H-1B petitions. Smaller boutique studios sponsor less frequently.
Which visa types are most common for architect roles in Kentucky?
The H-1B is the most common visa for architects in Kentucky, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in architecture. The O-1A is an option for architects with a distinguished record of awards, published work, or high-profile commissions. International architects from Canada or Mexico may also qualify under the TN visa category.
Which cities in Kentucky have the most architect sponsorship jobs?
Louisville accounts for the largest share of architecture employment in Kentucky, driven by commercial development, healthcare construction, and historic renovation projects. Lexington is the second-largest market, with activity tied to the University of Kentucky campus, horse industry facilities, and downtown revitalization. Bowling Green and Frankfort have smaller but steady public-sector and institutional architecture needs.
How to find architect visa sponsorship jobs in Kentucky?
Migrate Mate filters architecture job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, so you can search Kentucky without sorting through roles that won't consider international candidates. The platform surfaces firms in Louisville, Lexington, and beyond that have indicated sponsorship willingness. Filtering by architect roles on Migrate Mate saves significant time compared to manually researching each firm's hiring policies.
Are there state-specific factors that affect visa sponsorship for architects in Kentucky?
Kentucky does not require state-specific work authorization beyond federal visa requirements, but architects should be aware that NCARB licensure is required to use the title 'architect' and stamp drawings. Many Kentucky employers expect candidates to be ARE-eligible or already licensed, which can influence how they structure a sponsorship offer. The DOL prevailing wage for architects in the Louisville metro applies to all H-1B petitions filed in that area.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored architect jobs in Kentucky?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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