Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design and govern conceptual, logical, and physical enterprise data models supporting analytics, reporting, AI-ready datasets, and certified data products. Translate business requirements into scalable data structures across customer, product, payer, and territory domains. Establish modeling standards, review models against Common Data Model standards, maintain metadata and lineage accuracy, and resolve data gaps and inconsistencies. Collaborate with business, engineering, and technology stakeholders to provide modeling expertise and design guidance.

Leads and develops a data engineering team implementing data integrations for partner campuses. Owns implementation approaches, scalable delivery processes, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, quality controls, project health, and capacity planning. Partners with Product, Launch, and Partner Success teams to resolve technical and partner challenges, improve integrations, and support adoption. Provides technical mentorship, design and code reviews, stakeholder communication, and continuous process improvement.

Develop Power BI dashboards, reports, data models, and analytical tools for federal consulting engagements. Gather stakeholder requirements, integrate and validate operational data, create DAX calculations and Power Query transformations, and support forecasting, staffing, cost, inventory, and performance analysis. Optimize and document solutions, conduct testing and training, and transfer knowledge to Government users. Collaborate with logistics, operations research, security, and project management stakeholders.

Manages reporting and analytics operations, teams, workflows, critical business intelligence reports, and performance metrics. Leads data process improvements, requirements analysis, systems development, testing, reporting projects, and process re-engineering. Uses SQL, data warehouses, QlikView, Tableau, and related tools to support operational, financial, quality, compliance, and strategic decisions. Mentors staff, manages priorities, monitors risks, and partners with business leaders and clients.

Leads the strategy, architecture, and execution of an enterprise data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, operational systems, and AI applications. Manages and mentors data platform engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, reliability, technical direction, and troubleshooting. Oversees pipelines, orchestration, governance, security, observability, data contracts, migrations, and platform operations. Partners cross-functionally to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and communicates decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own the analytical function for a core business area such as growth, product, AI and automation, or strategic partnerships. Define business questions, metrics, reports, experiments, and analyses; surface insights; make recommendations; and drive decisions and execution with cross-functional stakeholders. The role requires independently structuring ambiguous problems, interpreting data, communicating persuasively with leadership, and delivering measurable business impact.

Provide MEAL technical advice and capacity strengthening to country teams and partners across RAPID and EMPOWER projects. Support MEAL system design and implementation, digital data-collection tools (Kobo/CommCare), data management, analysis, visualization, feedback and complaints systems, proposal MEAL components, and documentation. Conduct trainings, capture lessons learned, and represent CRS with donors and partners to improve program quality and accountability.

Leads research supporting clean energy campaign approvals, supervises and develops researchers, improves research quality and processes, evaluates projects, identifies data sources, manages vendors and staffing needs, and partners across research, campaigns, communications, and partnerships to deliver strategic research products.

Leads data engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, support, and lifecycle management for secure, scalable cloud and hosted data solutions. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to deliver complex datasets, establish enterprise data standards, manage data engineering teams, and oversee maintenance, change management, capacity planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory security requirements. The role also evaluates third-party tools and supports Azure DevOps, SDLC, CI/CD, and technical innovation.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data pipelines and infrastructure. Maintain and refactor SQL and ETL processes, automate data workflows, ensure data quality/security, and troubleshoot complex issues. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements.