Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana is a healthcare company seeking a Lead Cloud & Data Platform Engineer for its Home Health Data Engineering team. The role owns the Azure- and Snowflake-based data platform end to end, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD, orchestration, monitoring, integrations, scalable data pipelines, and platform modernization. The engineer will also lead technical initiatives, collaborate with architects and business partners, troubleshoot platform issues, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the cloud data platform end‑to‑end**, including environment provisioning, networking, security, automation, and operational readiness
- Design and implement cloud‑native data pipelines** and platform components that are scalable, observable, and cost‑efficient
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines** for data workflows, infrastructure, and application deployments using Azure DevOps
- Implement infrastructure‑as‑code** (Terraform/Bicep) to automate Snowflake, Azure services, networking, and security configurations
- Set up and manage orchestration & monitoring frameworks**, including Prefect, ADF, or similar tools
- Develop API‑driven integrations** using MuleSoft to connect cloud and on‑prem systems securely
- Lead the modernization to Snowflake/Databricks**, including re‑architecting pipelines, data models, and operational workflows
- Establish platform observability**, including logging, alerting, data quality checks, and operational dashboards
- Troubleshoot complex cloud and data platform issues**, ensuring reliability and uptime
- Collaborate with architects and business partners** to design cloud‑ready, production‑grade solutions
- Mentor engineers** on cloud engineering, DevOps, and data engineering best practices
- Evaluate and introduce new cloud capabilities**, tools, and automation patterns to improve platform maturity
Skills
- Strong experience as a **Cloud Engineer or Cloud Platform Engineer** with hands‑on Azure expertise (Functions, ADF, Storage, Key Vault, Networking, DevOps)
- Deep experience with **Snowflake**, including performance tuning, RBAC, automation, and cost optimization
- Strong proficiency in **Python, SQL**, and modern ETL/ELT frameworks
- Experience implementing **infrastructure‑as‑code** (Terraform, Bicep) for cloud and data platforms
- Experience setting up **orchestration frameworks** (Prefect, ADF, Airflow, Dagster)
- Experience with **CI/CD pipelines** and Git‑based workflows
- Experience with **API‑driven integrations**
- Strong understanding of **cloud architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering**
- Ability to lead technical initiatives independently and drive platform‑level decisions
- Strong problem‑solving skills and ability to operate in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments
- Worked on Azure cloud Platform
- Python coding
- Snowflake or Databricks ( essentially expert in writing SQL queries )
- Working experience on any CI/CD tool ( understanding of how Git check in works and how CI/CD setup works )
- Experience working on any ETL or orchestration tool
- MuleSoft preferred
- Healthcare data experience is a plus
- Worked on more than one Cloud platform like AWS or GCP
- Experience in Terraform or Bicep
- Experience in Prefect
- Mulesoft
Benefits
- 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
- This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
- Remote position
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