Senior Healthcare Data Engineer

Millimans Seattle Health Practice islooking for an experienced data professional to join our VRDC analytics this role you will develop andmaintaindata pipelines that process healthcare claims and enrollment data; implementmeasurelogic and business rules from CMS and industry specifications; and contribute to the ongoing improvement of our analytic codebases and data products.

About Our Practice

Millimans Seattle Health Practice partners with a broad spectrum of organizations including insurance companies health plans government agencies healthcare providers reinsurers Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) health technology firms and employers. Our team includes over 180 actuarial professionals supported by expert consultants IT specialists and dedicatedoperationsstaff.

Join Milliman and collaborate with some of the most accomplished professionals in the health industry. Our mentor program ensures you have a dedicated colleague to guide your career growth providing the support and resources you need to thrive. For motivated candidates this is an exceptional opportunity to advance professionally while making a meaningful impactinhealthcare.

About the Role and Team

A significant portionof the work involves Medicare data accessed through the CMS CCW Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) a secure research environment where individual-level data must be processed in place and can only be exported after aggregation cell suppression and CMS review. You will also work outside the VRDC - post-processing exported results integrating client data and other non-VRDC sources and developing tools and analytics in standard development environments. Code ismaintainedoutside the VRDC using standard version control practices.

The position reports to a senior manager who leads technical direction for the team.

The VRDC is a secure virtual desktop environmentoperatedby CMS. All code is managed outside of theVRDCbut some individual-level data sources may only be accessed and processed within the VRDC environment. There is no internet access within theenvironmentdata cannot be exported at the individual level and all outputs are subject to cell suppression rules. Success in this role requires comfort working within these constraints and the resourcefulness to solve problems using available documentation data dictionaries and direct inspection of the data.

Our codebases span multiple languages and platforms and are actively evolving. We value team members who bring informed perspectives on how code should be organized andmaintained while recognizing that pragmatic tradeoffs are part of working in a production analytics environment.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Develop andmaintaindata 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 VRDCs secure computing environment
• Perform data validation quality checks and reconciliation to ensure analytic accuracy
• Identifyopportunities 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 findingsmethodology and data issues clearly to actuarial and consulting staff
• Manage concurrent workstreams across multiple measurement years and data refresh cycles

Employees will be expected to develop the ability to manage client relationships and successfully generate new business with both new and existing clients.

WhatWereLooking For

RequiredQualifications

• 5 yearsof 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 SQLproficiency 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

PreferredQualifications

• Familiarity with healthcare quality measures such as HEDIS PQA and CAHPS
• Experience with DatabricksPySpark or distributed data processing frameworks
• Git-based version control and collaborative development workflows
• Experience working within the CMS CCW/VRDC or comparable restricted research data environments
• Experience with agentic AI coding tools such as Cursor Copilot Codex or Claude Code
• Background in healthcare consulting or health plan analytics

Individual(s)mustbelegallyauthorizedtoworkintheUnitedStateswithouttheneedforimmigrationsupportor sponsorship from Milliman now or in the future.

Location

This position is based out of the Milliman office in Seattle preferred that this employeeworkin-office but remote candidates anywhere in the US will be considered. TheexpectedapplicationdeadlineforthisjobisJuly21 2026.

Compensation

Theoverall salary range forthis role is$85100 - $161575.Forcandidatesresidingin:

• Alaska California Connecticut Illinois Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New York City Newark San Jose San Francisco Pennsylvania Virginia Washington or the District of Columbia the salary range is $97865 - $161575.
• All other locations the salary range is $85100 - $140500.

A combination of factors will be considered including but not limited to education relevant work experience qualifications skills certifications etc. Employees are also eligible for a bonus under our standard bonus policy.

Benefits

Weofferacomprehensivebenefitspackagedesignedtosupportemployeeshealthfinancialsecurityandwell-being. Benefits include:

• MedicalDentalandVisionCoverageforemployeesdependentsanddomesticpartners.
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram(EAP)Confidentialsupportforpersonalandwork-relatedchallenges.
• 401(k)PlanIncludesacompanymatchingprogramandprofit-sharingcontributions.
• DiscretionaryBonusProgramRecognizingemployeecontributions.
• FlexibleSpendingAccounts(FSA)Pre-taxsavingsfordependentcaretransportationandeligible medical expenses.
• PaidTimeOff(PTO)-timeemployeesaccrue15daysper year and employees working less than full-timeaccruePTO on a prorated basis.
• HolidaysAminimumof10paidholidaysperyear.
• FamilyBuildingBenefitsIncludesadoptionandfertilityassistance.
• PaidParentalLeaveUpto12weeksofpaidleaveforemployeeswhomeeteligibilitycriteria.
• LifeInsurance&AD&D100%ofpremiumscoveredbyMilliman.
• Short-TermandLong-TermDisabilityFullypaidbyMilliman.

Who We Are

Independent for over 75 years Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today we are helping companies take on some of the worlds most critical and complex issues including retirement funding and healthcare financing risk management and regulatory compliance dataanalyticsand business transformation.

Milliman invests in skills training and careerdevelopment andgives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions develop future leaders and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our web site ( to learn more about Millimans commitments to our people inclusion and sustainability.

Through a team of professionals ranging from actuaries to clinicians technology specialists to plan administrators we offer unparalleledexpertisein employee benefits investment consulting healthcare life insurance and financial services and property and casualty insurance.

EqualOpportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

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