SEMANTIC DATA ENGINEER (HEALTHCARE)
Telecommute (Possible 2026 Return to office) - within Oregon, Washington, Idaho or Utah
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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. We’re seeking a skilled Data and Analytics Engineer with significant experience engineering semantic layers to design, implement, expand and enhance our existing semantic layer within our Snowflake data platform to support AI-driven semantic intelligence and BI for our health insurance payer organization. The role will focus on creating a robust, scalable semantic framework that enhances data discoverability, interoperability, and usability for AI and BI tools, enabling advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and actionable insights. This role will focus on implementing and optimizing semantic data models, ensuring seamless integration with AI workflows, and supporting advanced analytics initiatives. – all in service of making our members’ health journeys easier.
If you're a motivated and experienced Semantic Engineer looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry, apply for this exciting opportunity today!
What You Bring to Cambia:
Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
3+ years relevant experience in a multi-platform environment, including, but not limited to application development or database development
At least 1 year working with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
Equivalent combination of education and experience
What You Will Do at Cambia (Not limited to):
Implement Enterprise Semantic Models: Build and maintain semantic data models on Snowflake based on specifications from the Semantic Data Architect and Data Product Owner, ensuring alignment with business, analysis, and AI requirements.
Data Pipeline Development: When necessary, develop and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines to populate the semantic layer, integrating data from diverse sources (e.g., claims, member data, third-party feeds) using Snowflake’s capabilities.
Analytics and AI Integration: Enable analytics and AI workflows by preparing and transforming data in the semantic layer for use in predictive models, natural language processing, and other analytics and AI applications.
Performance Tuning: Optimize Snowflake queries and data structures (e.g., tables, views, materialized views) to ensure high performance for semantic data access.
Data Quality and Validation: Implement data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the semantic layer.
Collaboration: Work with data product owners, business analysts, the semantic data architect, data modelers, and data engineers to create and refine data models and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
Automation and Monitoring: Automate semantic layer maintenance tasks and set up monitoring to ensure system reliability and performance.
Skills and Attributes (Not limited to):
Proficiency in SQL, Python, or other scripting languages for data processing and pipeline development.
Experience using code repositories such as GitLab or GitHub and CI/CD-based deployment.
Experience with semantic technologies, including Snowflake semantic views, MicroStrategy, AtScale, or Business Objects universes and healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7, ICD-10).
Experience with semantic technologies, including Snowflake semantic views, Microstrategy, AtScale, or Business Objects universes, and familiarity with healthcare ontologies (e.g., SNOMED, LOINC, ICD-10).
Strong understanding of analytics workflows and their data requirements.
Experience with data governance, metadata management, and compliance in healthcare.
Strong problem-solving skills and experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake’s OpenFlow, Airflow).
Knowledge of healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA) and data security best practices.
Preferred: Experience with Snowflake features like Streams, Tasks, or data sharing; familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience in dimensional data modeling.
Excellent communication skills to bridge technical and business teams.
The expected hiring range for The Semantic Data Engineer is $115k–$135k depending on skills, experience, education, and training; relevant licensure / certifications; performance history; and work location. The bonus target for Semantic Data Engineer is 15%. The current full salary range for the Architect II position is $104k Low/ $130k MRP / $169k High.
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:
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Work alongside diverse teams building cutting-edge solutions to transform health care.
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Earn a competitive salary and enjoy generous benefits while doing work that changes lives.
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Grow your career with a company committed to helping you succeed.
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Give back to your community by participating in Cambia-supported outreach programs.
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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:
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Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
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Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
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Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays.
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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).
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Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
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Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
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Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
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Commute and parking benefits.
Learn more about our
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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.
If you need accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please email
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