Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana Inc. is a leading U.S. healthcare company seeking a Lead Data Engineer to modernize, optimize, and stabilize the Wisconsin Medicaid Market's data platform ecosystem. This role involves managing data warehouses, ETL processes, and collaborating with the Market BI team to enhance data access and flow while ensuring data reliability and security.
Responsibilities
- Leading the modernization, optimization, and stabilization of the Wisconsin Medicaid Market's data platform ecosystem across two independent health plan technology stacks
- Owning the market's Data Warehouse and ODS, driving ETL/data movement strategy (including SSIS modernization), and improving the reliability, observability, and security posture of data pipelines supporting critical Medicaid operations
- Partnering closely with the Market BI team as their IT counterpart to improve data access and flow, including establishing and managing Databricks pipeline patterns and platform enablement as the BI environment evolves
- Owning and evolving the Wisconsin Medicaid Market's data stores and data movement ecosystem, including the Data Warehouse and ODS, and the ETL processes that connect vendor and internal systems
- Accountable for modernizing and optimizing the market's data platform to improve reliability, reduce technical debt, strengthen observability/fault tolerance, and increase engineering efficiency in a complex dual-stack environment
- Acting as the Market BI team's primary IT partner for data platform enablement — improving data access patterns, strengthening pipeline governance, and helping establish a maintainable approach to Databricks pipelines and workflows as the market matures its analytics capabilities
- Directing the work of a small number of contract resources while remaining hands-on in delivery
Skills
- 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
- Experience creating detailed technical documentation to gain buy-in and drive decisions
- Ability to direct and review contract resource work (clarify requirements, establish standards, review deliverables, ensure maintainability)
- Own the market's data stores (Data Warehouse + ODS) and ensure stability, security, and performance
- AI Integration
- Lead modernization and optimization of the ETL ecosystem, including SSIS modernization and improved reliability/observability
- Drive reduction of legacy report patterns and support transition aligned to enterprise SSRS footprint reduction efforts
- Partner with Market BI as their IT counterpart to improve data access and establish/manage Databricks pipeline patterns
- Define and enforce data engineering standards aligned with enterprise direction
- Reduce technical debt and streamline workflows to lower operational burden on engineers and increase delivery capacity
Benefits
- This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
- 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.
- Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense.
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