Freelance Data Platform Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR

Senior Data Platform Engineer/SDE

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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 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!
What You Bring to Cambia:

Preferred Key Experience:

Experienced technical lead with a strong background in building and optimizing data pipelines, excellent SQL skills, and handson expertise with Snowflake, dbt, and modern ELT practices. Adept at breaking down work, mentoring Data Engineers, and delivering scalable, highquality data solutions in complex enterprise environments.

Qualifications and Certifications:

• TheSenior Data Platform Engineerwould have 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.

• 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.).

• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills and Attributes (Not limited to):

• 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 Have:

• Experience in healthcare or complex enterprise data environments.

• DevOps/DataOps proficiency

• Exposure to budgeting/cost management and cross-team initiatives.

What You Will Do at Cambia (Not limited to):

• 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.

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.

Senior Data Platform Engineer:

• Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho:The expected hiring range is $114,000 - $143,000, the full salary range is $114,000 - $186,000, and the bonus target is20%.

• North Dakota:The expected hiring range is $101,000 - $134,000, and the full salary range is $101,000 - $167,000.

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.