Senior Data Platform Engineer / SDE
Cambia Health Solutions
Yakima, WA
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JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Best Practices, Business Administration, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Contract Management, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Design Patterns Programming Methodologies, DevOps, Documentation, Health Economics, Healthcare, Healthcare Providers, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Leadership, Mathematics, Mentoring, Metadata, Operational Audit, Operational Support, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Pricing, Procedure Development, Python Programming/Scripting Language, SQL (Structured Query Language), Scalable System Development, Software Development, Software Engineering, Stored Procedures, Systems Maintenance, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Technical Leadership
ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION
0
LOCATION
Yakima, WA
POSTED
30+ days ago
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 sala
About the Company
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Cambia Health Solutions
Cambia Health Solutions is a family of companies headquartered in Portland, Oregon, working to create a person-focused and economically sustainable health care system.
Through our health plans, innovative technology and strategic investments, we are delivering consumer-centric solutions that:
• help people achieve better health and well-being
• make health care more available, affordable and accessible
• are easily understood by everyone
We put people at the heart of everything we do. Our company reaches more than 70 million Americans nationwide, including more than two million people in the Pacific Northwest who are enrolled in our regional health plans.
COMPANY SIZE
5,000 to 9,999 employeesINDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1940
WEBSITE
https://www.cambiahealth.com/careers