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Senior Data Engineer

Humana
Remote US, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jul 2025
💰 $147,000/yr($106,900/yr$147,000/yr)

About the role

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first
 

Do you consider yourself a data connoisseur? Does empowering healthcare consumers and patients to feel confident about how their data is stored, shared, and used sound exciting? Do you want to transform the industry by integrating cutting edge technologies into common business processes? Do you crave new challenges and solving hard customer problems?

As a Senior Data Engineer at Humana, you will merge the latest state, federal, and enterprise policies with the latest technologies to create new, compliance-focused products and processes. Come help us re-imagine our solutions to provide streamlined, world-class solutions to drive data governance and protection.

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's 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, external, structured, and unstructured data 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, transform, and track data establishing insights and actions that enable Humana to better serve our members.

  • Influences department’s strategy with data driven insights.

  • 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.


Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 5 or more years of technical experience in data analysis OR Master's degree and 3 or more years of experience

  • Advanced in SQL, Python, data science, machine learning, and/or other data systems

  • Advanced experience working with big and complex data sets within large organizations

  • Experience analyzing data to solve a wide variety of business problems and create data visualizations that drive strategic direction

  • Proficiency in understanding Healthcare related data

  • Proficiency in verbal and written communication to senior and executive leadership

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced Degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or related field

  • Expertise in data mining, forecasting, simulation, and/or predictive modeling

  • Experience creating analytics solutions for various healthcare sectors

Additional Information

Location/Work Style: Remote US

Why Humana?

At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it’s important to us too.  That’s why we’re committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:

  • 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

If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.

Work at Home Guidance

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:

  • At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested

  • Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership

  • Associates 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 associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

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