Remote Senior Data Engineer: Scale ETL/ELT Pipelines

Humana Inc; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Parental and caregiver leave

Short-term and long-term disability

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and enterprise data products.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data architectures and ensure quality, governance, and reliability across platforms. The role emphasizes cloud-based modernization, CI/CD practices, and mentorship of engineers, with a remote-friendly setup and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in Data Engineering.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL for data modeling, query optimization, and large-scale data processing.
• Strong experience with Python for data engineering, automation, and pipeline development.
• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale ETL/ELT solutions.
• Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling concepts.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms and modern data architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and engineering best practices.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting enterprise data and analytics needs.
• Build and optimize data models, curated datasets, and data products for reporting, operational analytics, and advanced analytical use cases.
• Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, architects, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Establish and promote best practices for data quality, testing, monitoring, documentation, lineage, and governance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production data issues while ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of data platforms.
• Contribute to data platform modernization initiatives, including cloud-based architectures and engineering automation.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture planning.
• Mentor and support other engineers while helping drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement initiatives

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Data governance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and enterprise data products.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data architectures and ensure quality, governance, and reliability across platforms. The role emphasizes cloud-based modernization, CI/CD practices, and mentorship of engineers, with a remote-friendly setup and travel as needed.