Serve as a key liaison with the DGPO to implement and operationalize data governance strategies, including data retention, access policies, and stewardship frameworks. Lead enablement of new data capabilities (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Adobe Experience Platform, AI) by ensuring readiness and alignment with architectural best practices across environments. Develop and enforce standardized testing governance across programs, supporting enterprise agility, risk mitigation, and reliability.
Primary Responsibilities:
Drive Data Governance Alignment: Collaborate with DGPO analysts to execute enterprise data strategy initiatives, including metadata management, data lineage documentation, and cataloging.
Manage Test Strategy and Execution: Define and enforce standardized testing frameworks across SIT, UAT, regression, and failover phases. Partner with Quality Engineering and Release Train Engineers (RTEs) to ensure traceability and comprehensive reporting.
Support Pre-Development Readiness: Work with architecture and product teams to validate testability in design phases, ensuring data source inventories and performance assumptions are documented prior to development.
Define processes and templates for sensitive data testing across Unity Catalog, Snowflake, and on-premise environments.
Create templates for readiness and reporting of dependent tables for downstream testing, including external team dependencies.
Ensure availability of test data in cloud environments in advance of testing cycles.
Define and coordinate the business sign-off process, including testing and acceptance criteria.
Additional Responsibilities:
Decide when lower environments meet entry/exit criteria for testing phases, directly impacting the quality and timing of production releases and mitigating deployment risks.
Collaborate with DGPO and Enterprise Architecture to define and enforce data access controls, minimizing data sprawl, ensuring compliance, and protecting sensitive information.
Determine which defects require immediate escalation and which can be deferred, influencing system stability, stakeholder satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
Manage resource planning, allocations, and tracking assigned teams.
Assist leadership in prioritization of resource needs and best-fit assignments across initiatives.
Lead and contribute to solutions design and design review activities.
Oversee documentation practices, ensuring full documentation of table dependencies (internal and external), and support documentation.
Required Qualifications
Minimum of 8 years of progressive technical leadership experience
Experience with quality and testing processes, and data governance
Experience collaborating with architecture, technical leads, test engineering, management, and business to establish and ensure governance of data quality and adoption of best testing practices
Experience with enterprise data engineering in Databricks or Oracle
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the medical insurance domain
Work-At-Home Requirements
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
Associates 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 associates 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
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay 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.
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: 11-27-2025
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.