Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Owns advanced mobile and web analytics for the NPR App, including complex SQL analysis of raw BigQuery, GA4, and Firebase data. Leads A/B and multivariate experimentation, translates behavioral insights into product strategy, develops reporting and self-service tools, ensures data quality, and mentors colleagues and stakeholders on SQL, analytics, experimentation, and data governance.

Designs and refines Microsoft Fabric architectures, builds metadata-driven ingestion frameworks, migrates Azure Synapse workloads, and develops PySpark and Spark SQL pipelines. The role includes data validation, reconciliation, CDC strategies, medallion architecture, Git-based CI/CD, governance and lineage assessment, and AI-assisted development with Claude Code. The consultant collaborates directly with client engineers through paired development, code reviews, architecture decisions, and knowledge sharing.

Conducts econometric, causal, statistical, and optimization analyses to improve operational efficiency, resource allocation, product performance, and business outcomes. The role defines efficiency measures, develops forecasting and optimization tools, partners with product and engineering teams on data instrumentation and implementation, and communicates findings to executives through clear reports.

Build and maintain reusable analytical data products, canonical entities, data marts, semantic layers, and governed metrics across business domains. Establish modeling, documentation, quality, lineage, and change-management standards; improve data reliability, self-service analytics, and production governance. Partner with Data Platform, Trust, Data Science, Applied AI, and business stakeholders on orchestration, observability, access controls, feature tables, model outputs, and shared metric definitions. Remain hands-on with SQL, Python, testing, code reviews, documentation, and technical coaching.

Conduct end-to-end analysis of complex healthcare data, including medical and pharmacy claims. Build and maintain SQL queries and analytical datasets, create visualizations, document methodologies, validate data, and translate findings into actionable business recommendations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, underwriters, product teams, account management, and cost-containment stakeholders to operationalize sustainable analytics solutions.

Owns B2B pipeline and B2C growth analytics, including attribution, acquisition, registration funnels, organic search, forecasting, dashboards, experimentation, and marketing measurement. Partners with marketing, sales, product, data engineering, and leadership to define metrics, improve tracking, deliver actionable insights, and support data-driven decisions. The role also contributes to dbt models, semantic-layer development, analytical quality standards, and mentoring.

Build and operate a large-scale enterprise data platform spanning batch and streaming processing, lakehouse storage, Kafka infrastructure, APIs, observability, and agentic MCP interfaces. Develop reusable ingestion and data-quality frameworks, improve scalability and resilience, establish engineering practices, support production operations, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep ownership of distributed data infrastructure and practical use of AI coding agents.

Design and operate production-grade data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and agentic AI workflows. Build scalable systems that ingest, transform, and operationalize data for customer-facing and internal applications. Translate ambiguous operational workflows into reliable architectures, improve service observability and performance, and own technical decisions across data modeling, system design, security, and compliance.

Lead GTM analytics across performance measurement, channel economics, data governance, forecasting, planning, and executive reporting. Own metric definitions, data standards, analytical priorities, and business requirements while partnering with Marketing, Data Science, Finance, RevOps, and Engineering. Analyze funnel, attribution, CAC, payback, conversion, retention, pipeline, and territory performance, translating findings into investment recommendations and strategic decisions for senior leadership.

Performs strategic and business analysis supporting sales, marketing, lifecycle, and product teams. Builds dashboards, recurring reports, business cases, scenario models, and presentation-ready insights. Maintains data quality, identifies performance issues, and supports leadership decision-making. Uses generative AI tools to automate reporting, accelerate analysis, and uncover growth opportunities.