Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Buffalo, NY

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Transform data into actionable insights by building dashboards, reports, and visualizations. Partner with cross-functional teams and data engineering to ensure data quality, lineage, and AI-ready metadata. Audit datasets, define monitoring rules, document data dictionaries, pilot AI-assisted BI tools, and apply hypothesis-driven analysis to surface insights that inform business decisions.

Embed with the CRO to deliver GTM analytics and insights: write SQL and dbt models, build Looker and Salesforce dashboards, define and track revenue KPIs, forecast and model revenue, partner with GTM leaders and Data Engineering, lead analytics projects, and translate complex data into executive-ready recommendations to drive upsell and new-business growth.

Lead and mentor a data engineering team building scalable customer-focused data solutions. Hands-on technical ownership, architecture guidance, and delivery of data ingestion, transformation, and reporting. Advance AI-enabled development practices, set technical standards, and foster a collaborative, accountable engineering culture to improve speed, quality, and reliability.

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 design and execution of Toast's enterprise data governance: define strategy, build governance frameworks, policies, business glossary, Data Governance Council, ensure compliance (GDPR/CCPA/SOC2/PCI-DSS), run maturity assessments, enable data literacy, and grow the governance team to drive adoption across domains.

Lead and grow a team of analytics engineers while remaining hands-on with SQL, dbt, and Snowflake. Own roadmap and semantic layer development, build trusted, governed data products, partner with cross-functional stakeholders, champion data quality and observability, and hire and coach engineering talent to deliver scalable analytics and AI-ready foundations.

Lead end-to-end COGS and gross margin analysis for hardware and software products, model cost-saving scenarios, answer ambiguous executive questions, partner with data engineering/finance/product, build reliable datasets and analytical frameworks, and present recommendations to C-suite stakeholders.

Designs and implements scalable data and technology solutions, develops ETL pipelines and APIs, manages cloud and big-data platforms, maintains data models, supports monitoring and scheduling, participates in Agile development and technical reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

The Senior Data Analyst oversees performance reporting tools, automates data pipelines, conducts quantitative analyses, and communicates findings to various stakeholders.