Senior Data Platform Engineer / SDE

Cambia Health Solutions • Boise, ID

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 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!

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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.).
• Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments.
• DevOps/DataOps proficiency
• Exposure to budgeting/cost management and cross-team initiatives.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree