Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Buffalo, NY

Lead enterprise data architecture across warehouses, data lakes, downstream applications, and AI workloads. Design data models, Medallion Architecture, ELT standards, semantic layers, APIs, access controls, and reusable datasets. Partner with business and BI teams to drive adoption, conduct architecture reviews, establish platform standards, and mentor data and analytics engineers. The role requires deep Snowflake, dbt, data modeling, pipeline, and semantic-layer expertise, with experience in AI data patterns and cloud infrastructure preferred.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, computed tables, and scalable data models using SparkSQL and PySpark. Integrate IoT, product, customer, external, unstructured, and ML-related data into a central data lake for analytics, causal inference, model training, and dashboards. Ensure high data quality and uptime while collaborating with data science, analytics, AI/ML, and engineering teams.

Leads enterprise data and analytics strategy, architecture, modernization, and delivery across cloud and on-premises environments. Oversees data platforms, engineering, integration, governance, quality, lineage, security, and compliance. Partners with executives to define roadmaps and investments, manages cross-functional teams and vendors, enables AI/ML capabilities, and mentors data professionals while driving scalable, trusted data solutions and measurable business outcomes.

Manages programmatic analytics and insights for client accounts, leading measurement frameworks, brand lift studies, incrementality testing, and A/B experiments. Develops media and campaign strategies, communicates performance insights to clients, and supports pitches and QBRs. Oversees, mentors, and develops analysts while partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams to improve measurement tools, campaign optimization, and analytical capabilities.

Leads global contact center capacity planning, forecasting, headcount, and hiring strategies. Builds predictive staffing models using Python, analyzes contact flows and staffing accuracy, and develops reports with MicroStrategy, Alteryx, and Power BI. Communicates data-driven recommendations to executives, partner managers, vendors, and operations teams while managing planning initiatives and optimizing service levels, customer experience, and costs.

Owns fraud performance analytics for depository products, including monitoring losses, approval rates, false positives, customer friction, and risk metrics. Builds data models, transformation pipelines, dashboards, scorecards, and monitoring frameworks. Conducts fraud deep dives and develops optimized rules, policies, thresholds, models, and decision strategies. Partners with Product, Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Fraud Operations, and Risk teams to improve fraud detection and support product launches.

Lead design and implementation of scalable Databricks Lakehouse solutions using Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and MLflow. Advise stakeholders, drive cloud data platform modernization across Azure/AWS/GCP, ensure data governance and quality, optimize performance and cost, and mentor teams. Support presales, deliver billable consulting, and champion AI/ML-enabled data solutions to translate platform capabilities into business outcomes.

Lead and grow a global data engineering team while establishing foundational data platforms and engineering standards. Design and oversee GCP-based pipelines, medallion data models, DataOps, monitoring, SLAs, CI/CD, governance, and data quality practices. Drive AI adoption across engineering workflows and build reliable, AI-ready data. Partner with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize roadmaps, deliver scalable solutions, and support data democratization.

Own implementation, maintenance, and optimization of client eligibility and claims data feeds. Analyze feed performance, troubleshoot discrepancies, produce error reports, test integrations with external partners, and improve internal tools, documentation, and processes to increase automation and reliability.

Lead and scale Runpod’s analytics and business intelligence function, managing analysts and BI practitioners while setting the analytics roadmap. Own core company metrics, consumption and marketplace analytics, self-service reporting, experimentation practices, and executive and board-level insights. Partner with Product, Finance, Engineering, Security, Supply, and Go-to-Market leaders to improve data quality, modeling, decision-making, and strategic outcomes.