Senior Healthcare Data Engineer

🕒 April 24

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $85.1k - $161.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Milliman

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1947

🤝 B2B

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💸 Finance

B2B • Healthcare Insurance • Finance

Milliman is an independent global actuarial and consulting firm founded in 1947 that provides expertise in insurance, healthcare, retirement and employee benefits, risk management, and related financial services. The firm combines actuarial rigor, data science, and technology to deliver consulting, modeling, software, and advisory solutions to public- and private-sector clients addressing challenges such as healthcare costs, market volatility, climate risk, and program design. Milliman operates worldwide with multidisciplinary teams including actuaries, data scientists, clinicians, and software engineers.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain data pipelines that process healthcare claims, enrollment, and related administrative data • Own components of data pipelines end-to-end, from raw data processing through final analytic outputs • Translate technical specifications and business rules into well-structured, maintainable code • Work with large-scale healthcare datasets (tens to hundreds of millions of rows) within the VRDC's secure computing environment • Perform data validation, quality checks, and reconciliation to ensure analytic accuracy • Identify opportunities to improve code quality, reduce duplication, and strengthen testing, validation, and documentation • Ensure reproducibility and traceability of results across data refreshes and measurement years • Communicate technical findings, methodology, and data issues clearly to actuarial and consulting staff • Manage concurrent workstreams across multiple measurement years and data refresh cycles

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics, or a quantitative analyst role with substantial hands-on coding • Healthcare data experience — Medicare/Medicaid/commercial claims, enrollment files, pharmacy data, or similar • Strong SQL proficiency — complex joins, window functions, conditional aggregation, and careful handling of NULLs and edge cases • Programming experience in Python, SAS, or both; willingness to work across languages as needed • Experience processing large datasets and an understanding of performance considerations at scale • Experience implementing business logic from technical specifications • Familiarity with data modeling and structuring large analytical datasets for reuse • Demonstrated ability to learn complex domains and business rules quickly • Strong written and verbal communication skills • A genuine interest in code quality — you think about naming, structure, validation, and maintainability.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision – Coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners. • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential support for personal and work-related challenges. • 401(k) Plan – Includes a company matching program and profit-sharing contributions. • Discretionary Bonus Program – Recognizing employee contributions. • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) – Pre-tax savings for dependent care, transportation, and eligible medical expenses. • Paid Time Off (PTO) – Begins accruing on the first day of work. Full-time employees accrue 15 days per year, and employees working less than full-time accrue PTO on a prorated basis. • Holidays – A minimum of 10 paid holidays per year. • Family Building Benefits – Includes adoption and fertility assistance. • Paid Parental Leave – Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for employees who meet eligibility criteria. • Life Insurance & AD&D – 100% of premiums covered by Milliman. • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability – Fully paid by Milliman.