Data Governance Platform Engineer / SDE III (Healthcare)

About the role

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.

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

Qualifications

• The Data Governance Platform Engineer would have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field and at least 5 years relevant experience in a multi-platform environment.
• Preferred Key Experience: Technically proficient data engineer with a strong background in Snowflake platform capabilities, excellent SQL skills, and 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, and contribute to the development of other team members.
• Skills And Attributes: 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 Have 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

The expected hiring range for a Data Governance Platform Engineer is $104K - $135K/year depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history. The bonus target for this position is 15%. The current full salary range for this role is $104K - $171K/year.

About Cambia

Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation anchored in our 100+ year history. Our caring and supportive colleagues are some of the best and brightest in the industry, innovating together toward sustainable, person-focused health care. Whether we're helping members, lending a hand to a colleague or volunteering in our communities, our compassion, empathy and team spirit always shine through.

Why Join the Cambia Team?

• Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care
• Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives
• Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed
• Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs
• Connect with colleagues who share similar interests and backgrounds through our employee resource groups

Information

• We are happy to offer work from home options for most of our roles. To take advantage of this flexible option, we require employees to have a wired internet connection that is not satellite or cellular and internet service with a minimum upload speed of 5Mb and a minimum download speed of 10 Mb.
• We are an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to a drug and tobacco-free workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law.
• A background check is required.