Senior Data Platform Engineer​/SDE

Senior Data Platform Engineer / SDE

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at Burlington, Renton, Spokane, Vancouver, Portland, Medford, Salt Lake City, Boise, Lewiston, or Fargo offices. Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location or be willing to relocate. Build a career with purpose. Join our cause to create a person‑focused and economically sustainable health care system.

Every day, Cambia’s Data & Analytics Engineering Team lives our mission to make health care easier and lives better. We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to serve as the technical lead for a team of Data Engineers. The role involves designing, building, optimizing, and owning scalable enterprise data pipelines and platform capabilities in Snowflake that power conventional and agentic analytics, purpose‑built data products, and operational reporting.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving technical standards, and contributing to platform strategy.

Applicants should have deep hands‑on expertise, a consulting‑oriented mindset, and a proven ability to deliver measurable impact in complex environments. The position offers clear growth opportunities into Principal‑level engineering, architecture roles, or people leadership.

• Technical lead with 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.

• 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 (e.g., Provider Network and Contract Management, Digital Solutions, Pricing, Membership, Claims).
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Deep expertise with Snowflake, SQL and SQL/Python stored procedures, dbt or other ETL tools, ELT/ETL design patterns, and orchestration (Airflow or similar).
• Strong data modeling, pipeline design, performance optimization, and integration/migration expertise.
• Data profiling: ability to identify unique and primary keys, determine cardinality, data type, precision and scale, and detect skew.
• Experience with Data Ops, 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).
• Mentorship, best practice establishment, and influence on technical decisions; proactive problem‑solving and innovation.
• Ability to think big, envision the whole scope, and break work down into details.

• Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments.
• Dev Ops/Data Ops proficiency.
• 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 (Data Ops, 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.

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