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.
• 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

Skills and Attributes

• Nice To Have Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments
• Python, CI/CD, and version-controlled development workflows (DevOps/DataOps)

Pay

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.