Senior Data Platform Engineer / SDE

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, optimize, and own scalable enterprise data pipelines and platform capabilities in Snowflake that power conventional and agentic analytics, purpose-built data products, and operational reporting.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical standards, and contribute to platform strategy, positioning yourself for growth into Principal-level engineering and architecture roles or people leadership.

Your deep hands-on expertise, a consulting-oriented mindset, and proven ability to deliver measurable impact in complex environments, make an excellent fit for this role with clear growth opportunities.

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!

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.

- The Senior Data Platform Engineer would have at least 6+ years of relevant experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering, with senior or lead experience

- 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.

- 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.).

- Deep expertise with Snowflake (strongly preferred), SQL and SQL/Python stored procedures, dbt or other ETL tools, ELT/ETL design patterns, and orchestration (Airflow or similar).

- Strong data modeling (dimensional, normalized, and denormalized), pipeline design, performance optimization, and integration/migration expertise.

- Data Profiling: Must be able to identify unique and primary keys and determine cardinality, data type, precision, and scale, and skew.

- Experience with DataOps, CI/CD, semantic layers, metadata management, observability, streaming, and AI/agentic enablement.

- Understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and enterprise platform ownership.

- Excellent communication and collaboration across teams (Product, QA, Analytics, Business).

- Ability to mentor, establish best practices, and influence technical decisions; proactive problem-solving and innovation.

- Ability to think big, envision the work from the entire scope, and work down to into the details.

- Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments.

- Exposure to budgeting/cost management and cross-team initiatives.

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

- Independently design, build, tune, and own scalable Snowflake ELT pipelines, data models (with Modeling team), and platform artifacts supporting analytics/operational workloads.

- Optimize performance (query tuning, compute sizing, workload isolation, cost management).

- Partner with analytics, product, governance, QA, and business teams to deliver high-quality, observable data solutions.

- Contribute to platform strategy, risk assessments, and adoption of modern practices (DataOps, CI/CD, AI tools).

- Ensure data quality, testing, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

- Demonstrate technical leadership by breaking down complex work and delivering value in squad/model environments.

- Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho: The expected hiring range is $114,000 - $143,000, the full salary range is $114,000 - $186,000, and the bonus target is 20%.

- North Dakota: The expected hiring range is $101,000 - $134,000, and the full salary range is $101,000 - $167,000.

As part of our security requirements, new hires will need access to a personal mobile device to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) upon joining the company. MFA is an important layer of protection for accessing Cambia systems and is required for all employees.