Principal Data Engineer

Humana · Boston, MA, United States

Location
Boston
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
July 20, 2026

Job Description

**Become a part of our caring community**

The Principal Data Engineer owns the design and delivery of the NBA platform's data pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse. This is a hands-on engineering role first - you are expected to be a significant individual contributor building production pipelines every sprint. You also lead a small team of data engineers and contractors, and are accountable for the quality, reliability, and timeliness of the data that feeds the platform's AI models and decisioning system.

**What You'll Own**

+ Pipeline delivery - design, build, and own the Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse pipelines that power the NBA platform: member profiles, clinical signals, behavioral data, web clickstream, and socioeconomic features
+ Hands-on development - actively write and ship production SQL, Python, and Spark code alongside your team; this is not a supervisory role
+ Data modeling - own the Gold layer schema that serves as the canonical member fe...

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