Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Leads and mentors the Data Engineering team while remaining hands-on in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, warehouses, integrations, and infrastructure. Establishes architecture, reliability, quality, and performance standards; guides technical delivery; and resolves complex issues. Partners with Finance and business stakeholders to translate data needs into practical solutions, sets technical direction, evaluates technologies, and communicates strategy, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

Leads and delivers complex data engineering projects, designing scalable data infrastructure, pipelines, warehouses, and data quality solutions. Recommends tools and architectures, optimizes data movement and performance, collaborates across technical teams, mentors engineers, and translates technical concepts for clients and nontechnical stakeholders. The role may also involve real-time processing, data modeling, transformation, security, and MLOps.

Build and operate core data infrastructure for edge and hybrid environments, including ingestion, OT/IoT integrations, real-time streaming, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, and scalable query access. The role requires production ownership, reliability practices, customer integration, and collaboration across engineering and customer-facing teams. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience with production data, streaming, or integration systems and proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Build and maintain SQL-based marketing analytics infrastructure, data models, dashboards, and reporting. Analyze marketing channels, affiliates, conversion funnels, cohorts, revenue, profitability, and partner performance. Translate complex findings into actionable recommendations for budget allocation and optimization. Ensure data quality, governance, documentation, and metric consistency while partnering cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations, Product, and Technology. The role is a hands-on individual contributor with potential responsibility for mentoring or managing one analyst.

Develops scalable data models, dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that support business decisions. Partners with stakeholders to translate requirements, ensures data accuracy and usability, provides technical guidance to end users, documents architectures and processes, and communicates findings to technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires advanced Spotfire, SQL, and business intelligence experience, plus familiarity with modern data platforms and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads a client’s migration from SQL Server, SSIS, and SSRS to Snowflake and Sigma while maintaining legacy reporting operations. Designs data models, ETL pipelines, reports, dashboards, source-to-target mappings, and migration plans; validates reporting parity and coordinates phased cutovers. The role also provides client-facing technical leadership, troubleshooting, documentation, peer reviews, and ongoing support for banking data and reporting systems.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Lead a small analytics team (staff data scientist + two analysts) to deliver curriculum, product, and program insights. Split time between people management (60-70%) and hands-on analysis (30-40%), advance experimentation and measurement, build AI/LLM-driven agentic workflows, manage sprints and cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and drive analytics that inform curriculum, product, and intervention strategies.

Design and build PerfectServe’s unified cloud data platform, including ingestion pipelines, integrations, data models, metrics, and consumer-facing data layers. Establish architecture, engineering, quality, and testing standards; enable safe extraction from production systems; partner with data users; and mentor data engineers. The role requires substantial cloud data platform experience, deep SQL, warehouse expertise, ELT, change-data-capture, AWS, modeling, orchestration, and data quality skills.