The Senior Data Engineer Designs, builds, and maintains data processing architectures and solutions enabling the efficient conversion of structured and unstructured data to insights at enterprise scale. The Senior Data Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
The Senior Data Engineer Ingests data from internal and external sources utilizing cloud native platforms and software development best practices and patterns. Develops software tools that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize, and transform data into insights and actions that enables Humana to better serve our members. Begins to influence department’s strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze business and operational requirements and contribute to the design of system‑level solutions supporting reporting, analytics, and data‑driven processes.
- Review existing applications, data pipelines, and data warehouse components to identify inefficiencies, integration gaps, or performance issues and recommend system improvements.
- Design and support data ingestion and integration workflows, including batch and near‑real‑time processing across internal and external data sources.
- Participate in the implementation and modernization of data platforms, including migration or integration of legacy on‑premise SQL‑based environments with cloud‑based platforms such as Databricks, in accordance with established architecture standards.
- Develop and support data migration and system integration approaches to ensure reliable, secure, and accurate data movement across enterprise systems.
- Work with business users, data engineers, and application teams to ensure system designs align with functional requirements and documented architecture guidelines.
- Assist in evaluating technologies, tools, and frameworks used within assigned systems to support modernization and optimization efforts.
- Coordinate with offshore and cross‑functional delivery teams to support execution of defined technical tasks, priorities, and delivery timelines.
- Monitor system behavior and data flows during deployment and production support, and analyze and resolve issues related to performance, availability, or data quality.
- Maintain technical design documentation and adhere to established change management, governance, and escalation procedures.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related fields.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience applying specialized technical knowledge to analyze, integrate, or support information systems or data platforms in an enterprise environment.
- Experience working with data integration, system modernization, or analytical reporting platforms.
- Experience with modernizing large data engineering processes from on-prem to the cloud.
- Experience with Databricks, SQL, PySpark, SparkSQL, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Azure Cloud.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree.
- Experience with Oracle.
- Experience with Claude Code, Genie Code, or similar AI tools.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
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.About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience with enterprise information systems or data platforms
- Experience with data integration, system modernization, or analytical reporting platforms
- Experience modernizing large data engineering processes from on-prem to the cloud
- Experience with Databricks, SQL, PySpark, SparkSQL, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Azure Cloud
- Master's degree
- Experience with Oracle
- Experience with Claude Code, Genie Code, or similar AI tools
Humana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Humana and has not been reviewed or approved by Humana.
-
Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance are offered alongside on-site/virtual wellness resources and weekly paid well-being time, indicating a whole-person focus.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid PTO and holidays, volunteer time, and formal leave options such as parental and caregiver time provide broad time-away support. Adoption assistance and lactation rooms extend coverage for key life events.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match anchors long-term savings. Employer-matched emergency savings programs complement retirement planning.
Humana Insights
What We Do
At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.
