Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Builds and maintains analytical data foundations for lending, underwriting, pricing, originations, collections, and portfolio analytics. Develops reusable SQL assets, dimensional models, data marts, transformation workflows, reporting solutions, and business intelligence products using SQL, Python, dbt, Git, Snowflake, Power BI, and Sigma. Partners with technical teams, analysts, and business stakeholders to integrate data, standardize metrics, automate testing, and deliver reliable, documented, scalable analytical assets.

The Senior Director Analyst in MDM leads research and advisory functions, focusing on Master Data Management strategies and providing clients with actionable insights to enhance their data initiatives. This role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively.

Design and own Ceresti’s end-to-end data architecture, including secure raw-data storage, validated file and API ingestion, Postgres pipelines, and curated analytics layers. Establish governance for HIPAA-protected data, data quality, lineage, observability, and access controls. Build ML feature tables and embedding capabilities, collaborate on data contracts, support Agile delivery, and mentor engineers on SQL and data-system design.

Leads and develops an analytics engineering team that builds data pipelines, analytical models, reporting, and scalable data infrastructure. Partners with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Operations to deliver reliable, actionable data. Establishes governance, quality, testing, documentation, and modeling standards while prioritizing analytics projects and communicating with stakeholders.

Manage and optimize mission-critical SQL Server databases hosted on AWS EC2 for a high-availability trading application. Responsibilities include performance tuning, database administration, HA/DR implementation, backup and recovery, security and compliance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and 24/7 on-call support. Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and architects on database changes, production deployments, documentation, and disaster recovery testing.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Develops scalable data models, dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that support business decisions. Partners with stakeholders to translate requirements, ensures data accuracy and usability, provides technical guidance to end users, documents architectures and processes, and communicates findings to technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires advanced Spotfire, SQL, and business intelligence experience, plus familiarity with modern data platforms and AI-assisted development tools.

Design, build, maintain, and optimize Spark and Scala ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS for terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets. Work across S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and monitoring systems, resolve production data-quality and performance issues, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, and support on-call operations. Use generative AI to improve pipeline development, monitoring, and engineering productivity.

Develop and modernize enterprise Power BI reports using PBIP, advanced DAX, certified semantic models, Live Connections, and DirectQuery. Reconcile new reports with legacy systems, validate calculations and KPIs, optimize performance, and support UAT and enterprise rollout. Collaborate with architects, engineers, analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders in Agile environments while following Git, Azure DevOps, source-control, governance, and release-management standards.

Analyzes healthcare claims, provider, reimbursement, and financial data to support out-of-network dispute negotiations, arbitration, QPA accuracy, and IDR performance. Builds SQL-based reports, dashboards, data processes, metrics, and financial views; validates data quality; integrates internal and external sources; identifies trends and risks; and presents actionable recommendations to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.