[Hiring] Senior Healthcare Data Engineer @Milliman

Role Description

Milliman's Seattle Health Practice is looking for an experienced data professional to join our VRDC analytics team. In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain data pipelines that process healthcare claims and enrollment data.
• Implement measure logic and business rules from CMS and industry specifications.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of our analytic codebases and data products.

A significant portion of 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 is maintained outside the VRDC using standard version control practices.

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

You will have the opportunity to:

• 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.
• Develop the ability to manage client relationships and successfully generate new business with both new and existing clients.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Familiarity with healthcare quality measures, such as HEDIS, PQA and CAHPS.
• Experience with Databricks, PySpark, 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) must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for immigration support or sponsorship from Milliman now or in the future.

Location

This position is based out of the Milliman office in Seattle, WA. It is preferred that this employee work in-office, but remote candidates anywhere in the US will be considered.

Compensation

The overall salary range for this role is $85,100 - $161,575.

• For candidates residing in 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 $97,865 - $161,575.
• All other locations the salary range is $85,100 - $140,500.

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

• 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.