Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Birmingham, AL

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.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Lead enterprise data architecture across multiple SaaS products by unifying reporting platforms, data models, and analytics capabilities. Assess current systems, define target-state architecture, establish data governance and quality standards, separate analytical workloads from transactional systems, and develop phased migration roadmaps. Guide database, engineering, and BI teams on cloud platforms, integration, modeling, performance, security, and reliability. Enable trusted cross-product reporting, governed self-service analytics, and data foundations for AI and advanced analytics.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, schemas, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and related healthcare data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders. Collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions and improve infrastructure, processes, and analytics capabilities.

Leads audience research, advertising effectiveness, brand lift studies, and first-party audience analysis. Partners with Sales, Creative Strategy, Media Planning, and leadership to develop actionable insights, sales narratives, measurement strategies, presentations, and client recommendations. Manages research vendors, budgets, contracts, and methodologies while scaling research tools, dashboards, benchmarks, and best practices across the organization.

Lead a Salesforce data engineering team to design, deliver, and support Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations and migrations, data modeling, ETL/transformations, automation, and observability. Manage hiring, performance, and career development; partner with stakeholders; adopt AI/LLM agent tooling to automate workflows and improve data quality; reduce technical debt and document systems and processes.