Lead Data Engineer

Humana Inc. is a leading U.S. healthcare company that aims to enhance the health of the communities it serves. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data solutions for monitoring application health, ensuring application reliability, and optimizing performance across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain data architectures and pipelines supporting Application Health reporting and analytics
• Ingest and integrate data from multiple internal and external sources using modern cloud‑native technologies
• Develop analytics, dashboards, and scorecards across architecture, data quality, security, engineering standards, reliability, and technology stack alignment
• Leverage big data and AI/ML‑enabled solutions to cleanse, transform, and enrich enterprise data
• Provide technical leadership, set engineering standards, review designs, and mentor team members
• Partner with Technology Stewardship, Tech Strategy, EIP, CIO Segment Engineering, and application owners to align solutions with enterprise priorities
• Ensure data solutions comply with governance, security, privacy, and regulatory standards
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve scalability, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent and relevant years of experience in lieu of degree requirement
• 5+ years' experience in data engineering within large‑scale enterprise environments
• years' experience with Databricks
• 5+ years' experience and strong knowledge in cloud platforms and data technologies (data lakes, data warehouses, streaming)
• Proven experience building complex data pipelines and integration frameworks
• Hands‑on experience with big data, analytics platforms, and data modeling
• Exposure to AI/ML‑driven analytics preferred
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and translate data insights into business outcomes
• Any advanced degree
• Any data related certifications