Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end batch and streaming data pipelines on GCP. Migrate legacy warehouses to BigQuery/Bigtable/ClickHouse, orchestrate workflows in Airflow, ensure data quality and observability, and partner with ML engineers on feature pipelines, drift monitoring, and retraining.

Customer-facing technical leader who architects, builds, and optimizes large-scale data engineering and lakehouse solutions on Databricks. Supports pre-sales and delivery with POCs, performance/load testing, workload sizing, migrations, observability, and adoption through workshops and community engagement.

Lead enterprise adoption and toolchain integration for business analysis across federated teams. Design enablement curriculum, integrate standards and AI-enabled tooling (Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Nexus, Power BI), build decision-oriented dashboards and leading indicators, drive adoption and governance, surface portfolio trends, and partner with stakeholders to improve delivery predictability and compliance.

Design, build, and automate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, implement data models and ETL, automate deployments, support ML/experimentation, maintain server architecture, and partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics and data-driven tools.

The Senior Data Modeler designs and maintains data models, supports AI-driven practices, and collaborates on data lifecycle processes. Responsibilities include translating business needs into data structures, ensuring data governance, and supporting analytics and AI use cases.

Design and deliver reporting, dashboards, and analytics for higher education advancement and constituent data. Gather requirements, define KPIs, perform SQL-based analysis and data validation, and build actionable Tableau visualizations. Advise clients, run workshops, collaborate with data engineering/CRM teams, document business rules and tests, and support adoption and analytics modernization initiatives within a consulting environment.

Own and architect the semantic layer and metrics/metadata for the data platform (Databricks/GCP). Build AI-ready models, enforce modeling and documentation standards, implement observability/testing for pipelines, enable self-serve analytics, and collaborate across product, clinical, and business teams to translate questions into reliable data solutions.

Lead strategic analytics and partner with senior leadership to drive growth, margin, and retention initiatives. Build interactive reporting (Python/Streamlit, BigQuery-connected Google Sheets), perform deep EDA in Jupyter, model and clean data with SQL and dbt, integrate secure AI-assisted tools and automation, ensure analytical quality, and translate insights into measurable business outcomes.

Collect and analyze competitive intelligence and conduct due diligence and investigations on investment candidates and related entities. Design data collection methods, use research, network analysis and AI/automation tools to produce high-quality reports and actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders, and improve workflow productivity.

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will analyze game telemetry data, translate business needs into insights, and guide technical teams. You will also lead exploratory data analysis and maintain data quality practices.