Lead Data Engineer

Become a part of our caring community

This role leads the architecture, engineering, and operationalization of the centralized Finance reporting data platform supporting CenterWell Finance reporting, analytics, and month-end close processes. We are looking for deep expertise in Databricks lakehouse engineering, medallion architecture design, advanced SQL development, and Power BI reporting optimization.

This position is remote; however, the candidate will be expected to work according to Eastern Standard Time.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, engineering, and stabilization of the centralized Finance reporting data platform supporting enterprise Finance reporting and analytics initiatives.

• Design and implement scalable Databricks lakehouse solutions utilizing Bronze/Silver/Gold (Medallion) architecture patterns to support Finance reporting, month-end close processes, and analytical workloads

• Develop and optimize advanced Databricks notebooks, workflows, Delta Lake pipelines, and orchestration frameworks to ingest, transform, validate, and operationalize large-scale Finance datasets.

• Engineer reporting-ready analytical datasets and dimensional models optimized for enterprise Power BI reporting, semantic models, and governed self-service analytics

• Develop advanced SQL-based transformation logic, financial aggregations, reconciliations, and reporting datasets utilizing Databricks SQL and Snowflake capabilities

• Design and maintain scalable star schema and curated reporting layer structures supporting financial hierarchies, KPI standardization, P&L reporting, variance analysis, and executive reporting requirements.

• Establish and maintain standardized financial hierarchies, mappings, and metric definitions across business lines, ensuring consistency across reporting outputs

• Lead month-end Finance data operationalization processes, including ingestion, snapshot management, reconciliations, validation controls, auditability, and close-cycle reporting readiness.

• Implement enterprise-grade data quality, lineage, monitoring, validation, and change management frameworks to ensure financial data accuracy, traceability, and governance compliance

• Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Reporting & Analytics leadership, and enterprise data teams to translate Finance reporting requirements into scalable data and reporting platform solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across Finance data platform initiatives, establish engineering standards and best practices, and oversee vendor/offshore delivery execution.

• Establish and maintain standardized financial hierarchies, mappings, and metric definitions across business lines, ensuring consistency across reporting outputs

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Analytics, Finance, or related field

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, BI data architecture, or analytics platforms

• 3+ years of leadership experience leading data/BI engineering projects or platforms

• 2+ years of people leadership experience with direct reports

• Advanced SQL expertise for large-scale data transformation, modeling, and performance optimization

• Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks engineering, including Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, notebooks, workflows, and orchestration.

• Strong understanding and practical implementation experience with Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and lakehouse design patterns.

• Advanced SQL expertise, including complex transformations, performance optimization, window functions, dimensional modeling, and large-scale financial data processing.

• Strong Power BI experience, including semantic model design, star schema modeling, dataset optimization, DAX understanding, and enterprise reporting enablement.

• Experience designing curated analytical datasets optimized for reporting and self-service analytics consumption.

• Experience operationalizing month-end Finance reporting processes, reconciliations, data validations, and close-cycle reporting support.

• Experience working with Snowflake and cloud-based enterprise data platforms.

• Strong stakeholder partnership experience with Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and Reporting organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Finance transformation or FP&A reporting environments

• Experience with enterprise financial systems (Oracle Financials, Anaplan, ERP platforms)

• Experience designing governed analytical datasets or semantic layers for BI tools (e.g., Power BI)

• Knowledge of healthcare financial data domains (claims, membership, RCM)

• Experience managing offshore or vendor data engineering teams

• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and financial control requirements

• Master's degree in Information Systems, Analytics, or Business

Additional Information

WAH Internet Statement

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/ job.Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

$117,600 - $161,700 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 07-04-2026

About us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

​

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

Humana complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our