Data Governance Platform Engineer / SDE III (Healthcare)
About The Position
Every day, Cambia's Data Governance & Management team is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. Join our Enterprise Data Governance team as a Data Governance Platform Engineer, serving as a hands-on technical contributor and emerging lead for our Snowflake access and provisioning framework. You will design, build, and maintain governance capabilities within Snowflake that enable secure, compliant, and well-governed data access across the organization. Our environment is built on Snowflake, and this role will be central to enabling capabilities such as automated tagging and classification, role-level access controls, data metric functions, Horizon catalog, and data lineage — all in service of making our members' health journeys easier. If you're a motivated and experienced Data Engineer with a passion for data governance and a strong Snowflake background, apply for this exciting opportunity today!
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
- At least 5 years relevant experience in a multi-platform environment
- Technically proficient data engineer with a strong background in Snowflake platform capabilities
- Excellent SQL skills
- Hands-on experience with data governance frameworks, access and provisioning design, and modern data management practices
- Able to take technical ownership of complex governance solutions
- Collaborate across departments
- Contribute to the development of other team members
- Deep expertise with Snowflake, including access controls, role-based security, data classification, and platform governance features
- Familiarity with metadata management, data cataloging, or semantic layers
- Strong SQL skills and experience with stored procedures (SQL/Python), preferably in Snowflake
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake-native governance capabilities such as automated tagging, data metric functions, Horizon catalog, and data lineage
- Solid understanding of data governance principles, including access and provisioning frameworks, data classification, and compliance
- Experience with ELT/ETL design patterns and data pipeline development
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Streamlit or similar
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence partners across departments
- Ability to provide technical direction and mentoring to junior team members
Nice To Haves
- Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments
- Python, CI/CD, and version-controlled development workflows (DevOps/DataOps)
- Experience with dbt or similar transformation tools
Responsibilities
- Serve as a platform engineer for Cambia's Snowflake access and provisioning framework, maintaining responsibility of its design, operation, and ongoing development
- Build and enable data governance capabilities within Snowflake, including automated tagging and classification, role-level access controls, data metric functions, Horizon catalog integration, and data lineage
- Collaborate with data operations, engineering, analytics, and business teams across the organization to deliver secure, compliant, and well-governed data solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other team members on governance engineering practices
- Contribute to Communities of Practice and help establish engineering standards for data governance within the Snowflake environment
- Support cross-departmental stakeholders who depend on the access and provisioning framework, serving as a key point of contact for governance-related technical questions
Benefits
- 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
- Competitive base pay
- Market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match
- Bonus opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
