Lead Cloud & Data Platform Engineer
Humana · Frankfort, KY
$129,300–$177,800from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role on a Home Health Data Engineering team, responsible for owning and building out an Azure- and Snowflake-based data platform end to end. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipeline setup, data orchestration, API integrations, and migrating existing pipelines toward a modern cloud-native architecture. Best suited to an experienced cloud platform engineer with strong data engineering depth who is comfortable driving technical decisions independently.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 180 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 110–270
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role title is 'Lead Cloud and Data Solutions Engineer' with no explicit seniority level word (e.g. Senior, Staff) in the title itself, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the scope — end-to-end platform ownership, mentoring engineers, driving platform-level decisions — clearly supports a Senior classification.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role spans cloud/infrastructure-as-code (15-1252 Software Developers) and data platform/pipeline architecture (15-1243 Database Architects). The primary framing is building and owning a cloud data platform (Snowflake/Azure), which tips toward 15-1243, but the heavy CI/CD, Terraform, and DevOps emphasis makes 15-1252 a strong runner-up.
Snowflake and Databricks appear together as interchangeable options in the Required Skills section ('Snowflake or Databricks — essentially expert in writing SQL queries'), so they are captured as a single required skill with Databricks as an alternative. Databricks is also listed separately as a preferred skill in the 'Lead the modernization to Snowflake/Databricks' context; it is retained as a standalone preferred skill to reflect that nuance.
Terraform and Bicep are listed under Preferred Skills in the structured section, despite appearing in the 'What You Bring' narrative as experience requirements. The structured Required/Preferred Skills blocks are treated as authoritative for the required/preferred flag classification; Terraform/Bicep is therefore marked preferred.
MuleSoft is described as 'preferred' in the 'What You Bring' section ('MuleSoft preferred') and appears under Preferred Skills, so it is marked preferred.
AWS/GCP appear only under Preferred Skills ('Worked on more than one Cloud platform like AWS or GCP') and are marked preferred.
Healthcare data experience is explicitly called 'a plus' and names no specific technology, so it is omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
The posting is remote-eligible (Work-At-Home) but notes occasional travel to Humana offices may be required. The role is classified as remote since it is primarily work-from-home.
Humana is headquartered in Louisville, KY; no specific city is stated for this remote role, so Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN CBSA is used as the employer's home metro.
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