Lead Data Engineer

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 Healthcare Quality Reporting & Improvement (HQRI) delivers integrated risk adjustment (RA) and quality (Stars) solutions that leverage data and technology to empower members, providers, and Humana. Member & Provider Analytics organization (MPA) within the HQRI Technology and Analytics (HTA) org is developing a new model of delivery by incorporating principles of Large-Scale Scrum, dedicated Partnership Leaders, and collective Product Ownership. MPA operates with a spirit of shared success whereby our ability to help business partners maximize the effectiveness and accuracy of their programs yields better member care, health outcomes, provider partnerships and the financing of benefits for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.


The Lead Data Engineer Designs, builds, and maintains data processing architectures and solutions enabling the efficient conversion of structured and unstructured data to insights at enterprise scale. The Lead Data Engineer work assignments involving complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

The Lead Data Engineer on the Member and Provider Analytics (MPA) team will be a talented associate who will build relationships within MPA and with our customers to understand business needs and expectations. The candidate will

deliver reliable and timely solutions for ingesting and transforming large quantities of data from disparate sources in an optimized and scalable manner for prioritized business requests utilizing cloud native platforms and software development best practices and patterns. Develops software tools that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big-data techniques to cleanse, organize, and transform data into insights and actions that enables Humana to better serve our members. The needs of our business segment change frequently, so the ideal candidate will leverage subject matter experts and other resources, clearly communicate across technical and business teams, and resolves ambiguity to solve business problems with curiosity. A successful candidate will be able to clearly explain the details of the work to both customers and the team. Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences.

Key responsibilities:

• Establish and uphold the goals/expectations that support the fulfillment of culture and business objectives.
• Operate with team-first mindset that is committed to ensuring the overall success of the team/organization.
• Create data engineering solutions (design, data movement, orchestration, optimization) for prioritized business requests impacting organizational and enterprise initiatives.
• Evaluate and improve existing Data Engineering solutions.
• Contribute to moving the team towards a cloud-based BI platform.
• Maintain and support data analytics platform.
• Lead and manage day to day activities of associates and technically mentor the team.
• Work collaboratively with teammates to optimally apply data warehouse, cloud and BI architecture, normalization and data visualization techniques to delivered solutions.
• Work with Business Intelligence engineers to ensure code is optimized for performance and right tools are being used for the right jobs.
• Looks for and makes recommendations about optimizations to the technology stack used by the team. 
• Creates larger scale solutions to meet business needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 8 or more years of technical experience in data analysis OR Master's degree and 4 years of experience.
• Ability to analyze data to solve a wide variety of business problems, design and develop appropriate data movement and orchestration tools and code to support strategic direction.
• Strong SQL database design, optimization, and ETL support skills.
• Ability to develop modular, reusable code and tools.
• Strong understanding of star schema, snowflake schema, data architecture and design principles.
• Experience working in the multiple cloud ecosystem (ADLS/Databricks/ADF/ASA, Snowflake) or other cloud-based platforms.
• Expertise in T-SQL, python, pyspark and pySQL languages.
• Thoroughly test and clearly document code.
• Review the work of other engineers.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and translate requirements between business, project management and technical projects or programs.
• Able to present and communicate valuable insights to stakeholders, as well as senior and executive leadership using visualizations.
• Excel, Word, PowerPoint for presenting data and solutions.
• Integrity – committed to ethical actions and decisions.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with a variety of databases specifically in Oracle, SAS, multi-cloud is a plus.
• Fully understands query execution plans and optimization in on premises as well as cloud systems.
• Previous experience with and knowledge around the CMS Stars and/or Risk Adjustment programs.
• Broad understanding of our businesses and connectedness to key Humana constituent areas.
• Knowledge of Humana's internal policies, procedures, and systems.

Experience navigating Humana compliance and security within EIP and EA.

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.

 

$129,300 - $177,800 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.

About us
 Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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