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Associate Director Engineering - Enterprise Performance Engineering
Humana INC · 🇺🇸 7 Locations
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 130 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Humana INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Associate Director, Site Reliability Engineering” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in WI: $151k–$151k, median $151k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 130 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Become a part of our caring community Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that power exceptional member and provider experiences. The Associate Director, Software Engineering (Enterprise Performance Engineering) is a senior technology leader responsible for advancing Humana's enterprise performance engineering capabilities. This role leads a centralized team of performance engineers that provides performance testing, analysis, workload modeling, capacity planning, resilience testing, and performance consulting services across a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions. This leader will help establish performance engineering as a strategic capability that enables application teams to deliver scalable, resilient, highly available, and high-performing solutions that meet business and customer expectations. The Associate Director combines strong people leadership with deep technical expertise and serves as a key leader in shaping performance engineering standards, tools, methodologies, and best practices. The position requires significant experience in enterprise application performance testing, cloud performance engineering, observability platforms, AI application performance validation, and modern distributed architectures. This role partners closely with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, and Product teams to ensure systems are designed, tested, monitored, and optimized for performance at scale. The successful candidate will help drive the evolution from traditional performance testing to a modern performance engineering operating model that embeds scalability, resiliency, observability, and performance excellence throughout the software development lifecycle. Use your skills to make an impact Performance Engineering Strategy and Leadership • Lead execution of Humana's enterprise performance engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model in alignment with broader engineering objectives. • Establish and mature performance engineering standards, methodologies, frameworks, and governance practices. • Lead a centralized performance engineering team supporting multiple business segments and technology portfolios. • Drive adoption of performance engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle. • Serve as a trusted advisor for application scalability, reliability, and system performance. • Establish standards for load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, capacity planning, failover validation, and resilience engineering. • Partner with technology leaders to proactively identify and address performance risks and scalability challenges. Enterprise Performance Testing Services • Lead performance engineering services supporting customer-facing, internal, digital, cloud-native, AI-enabled, and mission-critical applications. • Establish service offerings that support application teams across design, development, testing, deployment, and production readiness. • Define performance test strategies, workload models, and testing approaches for enterprise-scale applications. • Oversee the planning and execution of performance validation activities, including: • performance testing • load testing • stress testing • volume testing • spike testing • endurance testing • scalability testing • capacity testing • reliability testing • disaster recovery performance validation • Ensure performance testing is integrated into Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD delivery pipelines. • Establish repeatable, measurable, and increasingly automated performance validation practices. Performance Architecture, Analysis, and Optimiz