Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Develop customer analytics that improve retention, growth, adoption, and operational performance. Build and maintain BI dashboards, customer health metrics, churn-risk reporting, and predictive models. Partner with Client Success, Product, Sales, and Operations to translate complex findings into actionable recommendations. The role also owns data quality, governance, reporting automation, workflow improvements, and stakeholder communication.

Support Maui post-disaster recovery by managing and developing project data systems, building backend database structures, updating website front-ends, and producing internal and external data metrics and visualizations to inform project leads, improve forecasting, and enable transparent, resilient infrastructure decision-making.

Develop and support enterprise BI solutions, including dashboards, reports, governed datasets, data marts, and ETL/ELT processes. Translate business requirements into technical designs, perform data analysis and validation, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain documentation, governance, security, and data-quality standards. Lead-level candidates will guide technical decisions, mentor team members, and coordinate complex initiatives and incidents.

Develop and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, apps, and reusable semantic models using SQL, DAX, and Power Query. Own day-to-day Power BI platform operations, including workspaces, publishing, licensing, refreshes, gateways, permissions, and content lifecycle. Translate stakeholder requirements into decision-ready reporting experiences, validate data and calculations, support testing and releases, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate with engineering and security teams. Coach report authors and promote governed, reliable self-service analytics.

Develop Power BI and Power Platform solutions in secure government environments. Gather requirements, analyze data, model business processes, create visualizations, manage documentation, and support system design and deployment. Develop and execute test plans, troubleshoot technical issues, coordinate stakeholders, and provide end-user support and training. The role also supports deployment documentation, system integration, quality assurance, and enterprise platform initiatives.

Analyze and model property catastrophe reinsurance treaties using catastrophe modeling platforms. Prepare and validate exposure data, execute models, interpret risk metrics, develop scenarios, and identify portfolio risk drivers. Support underwriting, actuarial pricing, placement, renewals, and management decisions through clear reporting. Participate in model validation, calibration, research, and development while collaborating with underwriters, actuaries, and other stakeholders.

Architect, build, and operate scalable data platforms processing billions of daily events through real-time and batch pipelines. Own production reliability, data quality, security, observability, and performance while partnering with engineering, analytics, data science, growth, and business teams. Develop frameworks and datasets, make architectural decisions, evaluate technologies, mentor engineers, and help define the platform roadmap.

Develop and modernize Tableau dashboards for People Analytics, improving visualization, usability, performance, and self-service insights. Design and maintain Tableau row-level security for sensitive employee data, including dynamic access controls and entitlement mappings. Build optimized data sources and models using Snowflake and SQL, troubleshoot data and integration issues, document solutions, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders on scalable analytics products.

Own the analytics engineering roadmap, architecture, and production data models. Build and optimize dbt models using SQL, Python, and Databricks; establish dimensional models, governed metrics, testing, documentation, lineage, monitoring, and CI/CD practices. Partner with data engineering, analysts, BI developers, and stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics products, improve performance and cost efficiency, investigate data quality issues, and mentor team members.