Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Contract Analytics Engineer maintaining Looker and LookML dashboards, reporting, data operations, sales pacing, data QA, vendor workflows, board reporting, forecasting, and planning support during a director’s maternity leave. The role requires strong SQL and Snowflake skills, analytics engineering experience, vendor management, Git/GitHub proficiency, documentation, and independent work in a lean data team.

Supports provider business development through bundled-payment pricing analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analysis. Builds and refines analytical tools and datasets, develops models for new healthcare bundles, supports provider negotiations, and partners with data science and engineering teams on optimization and data infrastructure. Requires healthcare knowledge, quantitative skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced remote startup environment.

Build and lead Inovalon’s third-party data governance program, including data asset inventory, licensing controls, contractual rights management, data intake and release governance, audit readiness, compliance monitoring, and KPI reporting. Partner with Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and business leaders to manage data usage, renewals, access revocation, disposition, and downstream obligations. Develop a governance team while applying expertise in healthcare data, HIPAA, de-identification, and data licensing.

Own and expand Chicory’s analytical data platform supporting advertising, campaign, financial, product, and publisher reporting. Design BigQuery architecture, build batch and streaming pipelines with Python, SQL, Beam, Dataflow, and Airflow, and develop governed data marts and BI datasets. Establish data quality, observability, reconciliation, access controls, cost management, and engineering practices. Partner with engineering, finance, product, campaign management, sales, and leadership while leading incident recovery and documenting systems.

Designs, builds, secures, monitors, and supports scalable data platforms across public and multi-cloud environments. Develops batch and streaming pipelines, ELT processes, data lakes, warehouses, APIs, and integrations with transactional systems. Works with SQL and NoSQL databases and technologies including Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Snowflake, Kinesis, and Lambda. Leads projects, presents to leadership, collaborates with clients and Scrum teams, troubleshoots issues, and enables analytics and machine learning initiatives.

Designs and oversees enterprise data architectures spanning databases, warehouses, lakes, integrations, and cloud environments. Translates business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions; establishes data modeling, governance, quality, metadata, and security practices; guides engineers and analysts; optimizes infrastructure; and maintains architecture documentation. Requires extensive Databricks, data engineering, big data, cloud, and stakeholder leadership experience.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for data analytics support across enterprise customers. Responsibilities include resolving complex SQL, cloud platform, ELT, data pipeline, data warehouse, and BI issues; optimizing analytics solutions; conducting root cause analysis; reviewing SQL and BI changes; mentoring analysts; automating support processes; and advising customers on Tableau, Power BI, and modern analytics architecture.

Lead data strategy and execution for emerging sectors, transforming large consumer datasets into accurate, scalable client insights. Responsibilities include resolving data-quality issues, designing workflows, maintaining sector taxonomies, partnering with product, revenue, engineering, and insights teams, and coaching analysts. The role requires hands-on analysis, production-grade data workflow development, stakeholder communication, and ownership of quality standards and methodologies in a rapidly evolving environment.

Analyzes business and system requirements, translates them into functional designs, and supports technology enhancements and quality initiatives. Collaborates with stakeholders on project scope, timelines, testing, demos, and implementation. Monitors system usage, investigates errors and exceptions, assists with UAT, tracks project progress, communicates risks, and serves as a technology subject matter expert within the mortgage and secondary market domain.

Lead federal marine and anadromous species range-map production using GIS, Python, SQL, spatial data normalization, CRS transformations, and intersect validation. Ensure compliance with FWS mapping standards, coordinate iterative reviews with FWS and NOAA subject-matter experts, prepare QA documentation, and obtain government sign-off. Support post-production map updates and operational handoff documentation.