Senior Data Engineer — Remote Data Pipelines & Cloud

Humana Inc; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products that enable enterprise analytics. You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions and drive data quality and governance across cloud-based architectures.

The role emphasizes production reliability, CI/CD practices, and mentoring junior engineers, with a remote work setup and occasional travel for training or meetings.

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

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt (Data Build Tool)

Job description

Humana Inc is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products that enable enterprise analytics. You will collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions and drive data quality and governance across cloud-based architectures.

The role emphasizes production reliability, CI/CD practices, and mentoring junior engineers, with a remote work setup and occasional travel for training or meetings.