Data Platform Engineer III (HEDIS Support)

Data Platform Engineer III (HEDIS Support)

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) at our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Portland, Vancouver, Renton, Medford, Burlington, Lewiston, Little Rock, and Springdale offices.

Preference will be given to current employees and candidates who reside within a commutable distance from our Salt Lake City, Boise, Fargo, Lewiston, Little Rock, and Springdale offices, or who are willing to relocate.

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 Engineer, supporting the technology solutions and data processes that enable HEDIS and healthcare quality measurement.

As a Data Platform Engineer III, you will participate in a cross-team environment for the delivery and maintenance of application systems. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing, programming, debugging, building, deploying, testing, and documentation of applications in development and production environments, as well as database design and system testing and documentation. This position provides technical, interpersonal, and administrative skills in performing day-to-day work.

Do you thrive as part of a collaborative, caring team? Then this role may be the perfect fit. 

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:  

The Data Platform Engineer III 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.
• Experience developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production software or data solutions.
• Experience independently troubleshooting complex application and data-processing problems.
• Experience working with sensitive, regulated, or business-critical data.
• Healthcare industry experience is preferred; experience with HEDIS, healthcare quality measurement, claims, membership, provider, or clinical data is strongly preferred.

Skills and Attributes: 

• Strong SQL skills and demonstrated ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex data issues—data analysis and problem solving are key aspects of this role.
• Development experience with modern data warehouse platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BiqQuery); experience building data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data integration, and data quality automation.
• Experience with Python for data engineering and application development purposes.
• Experience with source control, testing, deployment, CI/CD, and modern software development lifecycle practices.
• Ability to independently develop efficient, secure, and maintainable code and technical solutions for complex business problems.
• Ability to profile data and assess keys, relationships, cardinality, data types, precision, scale, and quality.
• Documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to balance planned engineering work with production-support responsibilities and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
• Commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and the development of reusable engineering practices.

• Comfortable working in a remote and/or distributed team environment, and proficient in asynchronous communication tools such as Microsoft Teams or Slack.
• Able to take direction, in analyzing and solving program and system issues.
• Able to plan and manage their own work.
• Familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) including unit and behavior test creation.
• Follows corporate and departmental coding standards and guidelines.
• Able to learn containerization technologies and orchestration tools.
• Applies software security best practices.
• Familiarity with defensive programming, OWASP top 10 to mitigate injection vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting (XSS), server side request forgery (SSRF). Familiar with authentication principles, security hygiene and data stewardship.
• Able to mentor and coach other junior team members in technical matters.

Preferred Skills:

• Snowflake; SQL and SQL/Python stored procedures.
• dbt or comparable ETL/ELT tools.
• Orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Production monitoring, logging, or observability tools.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code).
• Familiarity with HEDIS measure specifications (numerator, denominator, exclusions, continuous enrollment) and experience interpreting NCQA technical specifications to support accurate measure logic.
• Working knowledge of claims, enrollment, pharmacy, and provider data in a quality measurement context, including attribution and claims runout.

What You Will Do at Cambia:  

• Develop, enhance, test, deploy, and maintain complex software and data solutions that support business processes and objectives.
• Provide engineering and production support for applications, data pipelines, integrations, and processes supporting HEDIS and healthcare quality measurement.
• Research, troubleshoot, and perform root-cause analysis of complex application, data, performance, and processing issues; implement sustainable solutions that improve reliability and reduce recurrence.
• Continuously seeks to improve job skills. Actively participates in the company's learning environment.
• Meets established deadlines while maintaining a high level of quality and security in their output.
• Develop and execute unit and system test plans, test cases, test criteria, and test data; document results and validate solutions prior to production implementation.
• Develop innovative solutions to problems.
• Understands and participates in deliverables required by approved Software Development Lifecycles.
• Determines program design and prepares work estimates for development or changes for assigned work.
• Takes initiative and seeks out work.
• Practices software security best practices.
• Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards in place within IT/Engineering and all corporate policies, procedures and standards created by Cambia. Those include, but are not limited to, technical and architecture standards, production implementation standards, regular status reporting, regular participation in team, regular one on one meetings with Lead or Manager, and providing work estimates and regular time tracking.
• Expected deliverables include requirement analysis, system analysis, system design, data models, program design, source code development, unit test case development, unit and system testing, and documentation.
• May be responsible for on-call duties as defined by management.

Pay ranges vary based on the candidate's work location. The expected hiring range depends on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; and performance history.

• National pay structure — applies to the Boise and Lewiston, ID; Salt Lake City, UT, Oregon and Washington. The full salary range is $105,000 - $172,000 and the bonus target is 10%. The expected salary range is $112,000 - $151,000/year. 
  
  
• Regional pay structure — applies to North Dakota and Idaho and Utah locations outside the metro areas listed above: The full salary range is $95,000 - $155,000 and the bonus target is 10%. The expected salary range is $100,000 - $136,000/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?

At Cambia, you can:  

• 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.  

We believe a career at Cambia is more than just a paycheck – and your compensation should be too. Our compensation package includes competitive base pay as well as a market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match, bonus opportunities and more.  

In exchange for helping members live healthy lives, we offer benefits that empower you to do the same. Just a few highlights include: 

• 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. 

Learn more about our benefits. 

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.

As part of our security requirements, new hires will need access to a personal mobile device to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) upon joining the company. MFA is an important layer of protection for accessing Cambia systems and is required for all employees.