Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana is a leading healthcare company that offers a variety of health, wellness, and insurance products and services designed to off
Lead Data Engineer – Modernization, Reliability
Location
Florida + 4 moreAll locations: Florida | Kentucky | North Carolina | Texas | Washington
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$142.3K - $195.7K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Data Engineer – Modernization, Reliability
Humana
• Responsible for leading the modernization, optimization, and stabilization of the Wisconsin Medicaid Market's data platform ecosystem. • Own the market's Data Warehouse and ODS, drives ETL/data movement strategy (including SSIS modernization). • Partners closely with the Market BI team to improve data access and flow. • Owns and evolves the Wisconsin Medicaid Market's data stores and data movement ecosystem, including the Data Warehouse and ODS. • Accountable for modernizing and optimizing the market's data platform to improve reliability, reduce technical debt, strengthen observability/fault tolerance, and increase engineering efficiency.
Job Requirements
- Proven production experience with SQL Server data engineering, including warehousing patterns, operational support, performance tuning, and ETL/ELT design.
- Strong experience with SSIS/SSRS and Azure Data Factory (or similar orchestration) in real operating environments.
- Experience working across integration engines and healthcare data movement patterns, including tools such as Rhapsody / CorePoint.
- Demonstrated ability to modernize and optimize fragile pipelines and legacy patterns, reduce technical debt, and improve reliability, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience with Databricks and/or enterprise data platforms (e.g., UDAP), or strong aptitude and desire to grow into these platforms as part of market modernization and enterprise alignment.
- Highly organized, self-directed, and able to drive work to outcomes in an ambiguous, rapidly changing environment including planning, sequencing, and communicating progress/risk.
- Ability to direct and review contract resource work (clarify requirements, establish standards, review deliverables, ensure maintainability).
Benefits
- 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
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