Senior Data Engineer - Remote | AI & Big Data

Humana Inc; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO package

Health benefits day 1

Annual Incentive Plan

401K - Excellent company match

Well-being program

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data-driven solutions across large data sets.

You will collaborate with software engineers and analytics teams to ensure reliable data processing and actionable insights. You will evaluate technologies, implement workflows, and continuously improve data platform capabilities, applying strong engineering principles to support business and analytical needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, or computing related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years designing and building production-grade batch data pipelines for data ingestion and transformation.
• 8+ years overall experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Databricks, Python, Apache Spark, Git, and Azure Services (Synapse, Azure ADLS Gen2).
• Strong understanding of relational database principles, data modeling, database management, and data warehousing.
• Strong knowledge of Big Data querying tools.
• Experience optimizing large-scale data pipelines and ETL workflows.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines and data-driven solutions.
• Collaborate with software engineers and analytics teams to integrate data solutions.
• Evaluate and select technologies, implement and monitor data workflows, and improve platform capabilities.
• Develop systems for collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data.
• Ensure high standards of data quality, reliability, and performance.
• Partner with product management and SRE to define requirements and translate into engineering work.
• Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines integrating data from multiple sources.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data processing issues with root-cause analysis.

Skills

SQL

Databricks

Python

Apache Spark

Git

Azure Synapse

Azure ADLS Gen2

Education

Bachelor’s degree in science/engineering/computing

Tools

SQL

Databricks

Python

Azure Synapse

Azure ADLS Gen2

Git

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data-driven solutions across large data sets.

You will collaborate with software engineers and analytics teams to ensure reliable data processing and actionable insights. You will evaluate technologies, implement workflows, and continuously improve data platform capabilities, applying strong engineering principles to support business and analytical needs.