Business Intelligence Lead

Humana Inc; United States; Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Business Intelligence Lead to join the Growth Analytics & AI Team. This remote role requires strong SQL, Python/PySpark, and Databricks expertise to solve complex business problems and deliver insight to decision-makers across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with business, project management, and technical teams, building production data pipelines with robust validation, schemas, and logging. Excellent communication to senior leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years technical data analytics experience OR Master’s with 3+ years.
• Advanced Python/PySpark experience.
• Advanced Databricks experience including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, jobs/workflows, and service principal authentication.
• Experience refactoring and optimizing Python/PySpark codebases.
• Experience building production data pipelines with schemas, validation gates, and logging.
• Advanced SQL experience with stored procedures and SQL Server integration.
• Git-based engineering: branching, PRs, code reviews, CI/CD.
• Experience translating requirements between business, PM and technical teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex business problems using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into data solutions.
• Develop and maintain production data pipelines with quality controls and monitoring.
• Demonstrate leadership in analytics initiatives within Growth Analytics & AI.

Skills

Python/PySpark

SQL

Git/CI-CD

Cross-functional collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Airflow

dbt

Delta Live Tables

Lakeflow

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Business Intelligence Lead

Become a part of our caring community Reporting to the Business Intelligence Principal, the Business Intelligence Lead solves complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers. The Business Intelligence Lead works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. Humana’s Enterprise Growth organization is seeking a Business Intelligence Lead who has strong experience with SQL, Power BI and Python/PySpark to join the Growth Analytics & AI Team. This is a remote role working anywhere in the US. As the Business Intelligence Lead, you will solve complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers. Use your skills to make an impact.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 or more years of technical experience in data analysis OR a Master's degree and 3 years of experience
• You have advanced Python/Pyspark experience
• You have advanced experience in Databricks, including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, scheduled jobs/workflows, and service principal authentication
• You have experience refactoring and optimizing Python/Pyspark codebases
• You have experience building production data pipelines with enforced schemas, validation gates, and structured error logging
• You have advanced SQL experience, including stored procedure execution and read/write integration with SQL Server systems of record
• You have experience with Git-based engineering practice: branching, pull requests, code review, and CI/CD
• You have experience working with cross-functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management and technical projects or programs
• You have proficiency in both verbal and written communications 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
• Platform ETL and orchestration tooling (Azure Data Factory, Airflow, dbt, Delta Live Tables, or Lakeflow)
• Data quality frameworks (dbt tests, DLT expectations, etc.)
• Pipeline observability: job monitoring, alerting, SLAs, and incident runbooks
• Front-end development with TypeScript (Angular or React), including component architecture and REST consumption
• Ontology or knowledge-graph modeling (LinkML, RDF/OWL/SHACL, or equivalent)

Work From Home Requirements

• Minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
• Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay 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. $117,600 - $161,700 per year This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline

10-10-2026

About us

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 atHumana.comand atCenterWell.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.