Principal Decision Intelligence Architect

Humana; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 187,900 - 258,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off including holidays and p

Disability and life insurance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Principal Decision Intelligence Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the NBA platform’s decision intelligence capabilities. You will own the full decision system—from member signals to production deployment—driving architecture, mentorship, and high‑impact outcomes.

You will guide a multifunctional team, design optimization solutions, and ensure scalable, compliant data pipelines across the stack using Python, Databricks, and modern ML tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with data‑intensive applications, applied AI, or decision systems.
• 2–5 years of product leadership experience.
• Experience leading a multifunctional technical team, setting direction and removing blockers.
• Strong foundation in optimization and sequential decision‑making, with system design impact.
• Experience designing reward structures or planning frameworks translating business goals into objectives.
• Hands‑on experience with Python and full stack including backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML tooling.
• Experience building pipelines on a cloud data platform at scale.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the complete pipeline from member signals to live decisions, including feature engineering, scoring, and production monitoring.
• Design the decision intelligence architecture that translates objectives into reward structures and constraints.
• Develop the member feature layer on the Databricks Lakehouse with data engineering collaboration.
• Lead planning and optimization of action sequences across member journeys.
• Own the flow of decision outputs into live systems and real‑time feedback loops.
• Design holdout frameworks and online evaluation strategies to measure impact.
• Lead and grow a multifunctional engineering team; set standards and maintain cohesion.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing; promote best practices.
• Champion AI coding and research tools to maximize productivity.

Skills

Leadership

Python

Optimization

Experiment design

Communication

Cloud platforms

AI tooling

Decision systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree (strong plus)

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

PyTorch

MLflow

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Humana is seeking a Principal Decision Intelligence Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the NBA platform’s decision intelligence capabilities. You will own the full decision system—from member signals to production deployment—driving architecture, mentorship, and high‑impact outcomes.

You will guide a multifunctional team, design optimization solutions, and ensure scalable, compliant data pipelines across the stack using Python, Databricks, and modern ML tooling.