Senior Data Platform Engineer / SDE

Software Development Engineer

SENIOR DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER / SDE (HEALTHCARE)

Hybrid (In office 3 days/week) within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah

Build a career with purpose. Join our Cause to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.

Who We Are Looking For:

Every day, Cambia's Data & Analytics Engineering Team is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. Join our Data & Analytics Engineering team as a Senior Data Engineer, serving as the technical lead for a team of Data Engineers. You will design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platform capabilities that power conventional and agentic analytics, data products, and operational reporting across the organization. Our environment is built on Snowflake, dbt, Snowflake stored procedures, and Airflow. - all in service of making our members' health journeys easier.

If you're a motivated and experienced Senior Data Engineer looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry, apply for this exciting opportunity today!

What You Bring to Cambia:

Preferred Key Experience:

Experienced technical lead with a strong background in building and optimizing data pipelines, excellent SQL skills, and hands‑on expertise with Snowflake, dbt, and modern ELT practices. Adept at breaking down work, mentoring Data Engineers, and delivering scalable, high‑quality data solutions in complex enterprise environments.

Qualifications and Certifications:

• College degree in Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Business Administration, or related fields.

• A college degree may be substituted by sufficient years of experience in the health care industry.

• 6+ years in Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering, with senior or lead experience.

• Experience with a business area that is supported by this position is preferred (i.e., Provider Network and Contract Management, Digital Solutions, Pricing, Membership, Claims, etc.).

• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills and Attributes (Not limited to):

• Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL, dbt or other ETL tools, and ELT/ETL design patterns.

• Experience developing using stored procedures (SQL / Python), preferably in Snowflake.

• Familiarity with Airflow, OpenFlow, or similar orchestration tools.

• Strong data modeling, pipeline design, and performance optimization skills.

• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring abilities.

• Nice to Have:

• Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments.

• Experience with semantic layers, metadata management, or streaming data.

• Python, DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD, and version‑controlled development workflows.

What You Will Do at Cambia (Not limited to):

• Lead and mentor Data Engineers; drive engineering standards and best practices.

• Architect, build, tune, and automate scalable Snowflake‑based ELT pipelines using dbt, stored procedures, and orchestration tools.

• Together with the Data Modeling team, design scalable data models and warehouse layers that support analytics and operational workloads.

• Optimize Snowflake performance (query tuning, compute sizing, workload isolation).

• Partner with analytics, product, and business teams to deliver high‑quality data solutions.

• Ensure high data quality, thorough testing, complete documentation, and simplified platform observability.

The expected target hiring range for the Data Platform Engineer is $121k - $142k is depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; performance history; and work location. The bonus target for this position is 15% .  The current full salary range for the Data Platform Engineer is $113k / $185k.

About Cambia

Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person-focused health care. Whether we're helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.

Why Join the Cambia Team?

At Cambia, you can:

• Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care.
• Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.
• Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed.
• Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs.
• Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups.

We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck - and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.

In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
• Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
• Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays.
• Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
• Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
• Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
• Commute and parking benefits.

Learn more about our benefits.

We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco-free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. A background check is required.

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