Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana is a U.S. healthcare company focused on helping people achieve better health through insurance and healthcare services. The Senior Data Engineer designs, builds, maintains, and optimizes scalable data pipelines and data-driven solutions using cloud-native platforms, Azure Databricks, SAS, and SSIS. The role ensures data quality, reliability, and performance while collaborating with software engineering, analytics, product management, SRE, and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and workflows using Azure Databricks
- Develop and maintain SAS programs and SSIS packages for intermediate and downstream data processing
- Write, optimize, and maintain complex SQL queries to support data transformation and analytical use cases
- Design and build ETL/ELT pipelines integrating data from multiple internal and external source systems
- Select, implement, and support Big Data tools and frameworks for data processing and integration
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex data processing issues, applying root cause analysis and preventative fixes
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Recommend and support infrastructure improvements to meet evolving data volume and processing demands
- Partner with product management and SRE teams to define requirements and translate them into actionable engineering work
- Collaborate effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and cross functional teams to ensure alignment on data strategy, architecture, and outcomes
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in a science, engineering, or computing related discipline or equivalent practical experience
- * 8+ years of experience designing and building production grade batch data pipelines for data ingestion and transformation
- * 8+ years of overall experience in data engineering or related roles
- * Strong proficiency in the following technologies: SQL, Databricks, Python, Apache Spark, Git,Azure Services (Synapse, Azure ADLS Gen 2)
- * Strong understanding of relational database principles, data modeling, database management, and data warehousing
- * Strong knowledge of **Big Data querying tools**
- * Experience optimizing large-scale data pipelines and ETL workflows
- * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- * Experience working on cloud migrations and legacy modernization
- * Experience working with Snowflake
- * Experience working in a healthcare space and designing systems to protect member PHI and PII
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
- Employees 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 employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
- Remote position
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