Assistant Director of Data & Analytics Engineering

Hybrid role (3 days/week in office) in our Portland, OR, Renton, WA, or Salt Lake City, UT offices. Candidates must reside within commutable distance of that location or be willing to relocate.

Every day, Cambia's dedicated team of data and analytics professionals is living our mission to make health care easier and lives better. As a member of the Data & Analytics Services (DAS) team, our Assistant Director of Data & Analytics Engineering leads data engineering teams responsible for building and sustaining enterprise data platforms - supporting analytics, purpose-built data products, and operational reporting across the enterprise - all in service of creating an economically sustainable health care system.

As a people leader, you are willing to learn and grow, understanding that leadership is a craft that is continuously honed as you support your team and the lives that depend upon us.

Do you bring a consulting-oriented mindset combined with deep hands-on data engineering expertise? Do you thrive leading high-performance teams through technological change while delivering measurable business value? Then this role may be the perfect fit.

What You Bring to Cambia:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5 years of combined demonstrated leadership experience in architecture, applications, or account management using current relevant technologies
• 7 years managing business or technology organizations with demonstrated competency in strategic thinking and leadership
• Experience managing SaaS products and teams may be required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to interact with a wide range of stakeholders
• Thorough knowledge of finance, budget, and project management principles
• Demonstrated leadership of multi-disciplinary, high-performance teams across the full software development lifecycle
• Experience with architecture principles and design patterns across application types including web, integration, and business intelligence

Skills and Attributes:

• Deep expertise in data engineering, data warehousing, and analytics (OLAP), with solid familiarity in operational reporting and transactional processing (OLTP) requirements
• Hands-on proficiency with modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake strongly preferred), dbt or equivalent ELT tools, SQL/Python stored procedures, and orchestration tools (Airflow/OpenFlow or similar)
• Experience migrating platforms, integrating data, data profiling, performance optimization, and data governance/security/compliance
• Demonstrated success leading full system development lifecycle for data products and analytics solutions in complex enterprise environments, preferably healthcare/payer
• Experience with emerging capabilities such as semantic layers, metadata management, streaming data, DevOps/DataOps, CI/CD for data, and AI/agentic analytics enablement
• Healthcare domain knowledge (Provider Network & Contract Management, Claims, Membership, Pricing, Alternate Payment Models, Shared Savings/Incentive Programs, Care Gap Management) highly desirable
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and resources to drive efficiency and innovation within area of expertise
• Strong servant leadership qualities with personal agility, innovation, flexibility, and perseverance in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to manage through influence across formal and informal channels to gain alignment and synergy across stakeholders

What You Will Do at Cambia:

• Lead and motivate teams of data engineers and managers to deliver on-time, high-quality, scalable data solutions - defining and communicating success in terms of value delivered to internal customers and business stakeholders
• Partner closely with data modeling, product, data governance, quality assurance, portfolio management, and business teams to design scalable data models and platform artifacts; optimize platform performance through query tuning, compute sizing, workload isolation, and cost management
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with business leaders across DAS and payer operations - facilitating prioritization, managing to defined service levels, and ensuring data services are effective, efficient, and highly valued
• Drive adoption of modern data practices including semantic layers, metadata management, data observability, and CI/CD for data; champion automation and AI-assisted engineering to reduce manual effort and increase team productivity and impact
• Manage financial responsibilities including budgeting labor and services expenditures, tracking budget status, and presenting business value delivered through data engineering efforts to DAS management and business partners
• Develop risk assessments and transition plans to guide the organization through technological change, ensuring smooth adoption of new tools and practices while balancing multiple priorities across the Data & Analytics Services portfolio
• You bring unique value to our community of 200 leaders running our company. By actively engaging with your peers and inspiring your teams, you play an essential role in making health care easier and lives better.

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.

• Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Idaho: The expected hiring range is $163,200-220,800, the full salary range is $153,000-250,000, and the bonus target is 25%.
• North Dakota: The expected hiring range is 146,001-197,732 the full salary range is 129,767-214,115 and the bonus target is15%.

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.