Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead architecture and hands-on engineering to design, scale, and govern a cloud-native lakehouse using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Build batch/streaming pipelines, ensure HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, produce analytics-ready datasets, mentor engineers, and drive platform strategy, governance, and reliability.

Lead design and implementation of the commercial data and systems foundation for launch and growth. Own Salesforce-led commercial systems, integrations, data warehouse, MDM, analytics enablement, governance, and scalable delivery to support commercial operations, reporting, and compliance.

The Senior Data Analyst will deliver analytics solutions, develop KPIs and dashboards, conduct advanced analysis, and mentor junior analysts while collaborating with stakeholders.

Lead the architecture of the Workday Adaptive Planning platform, designing models, integrating systems, and ensuring platform governance while collaborating with stakeholders and optimizing performance.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and tenant-aware APIs to ingest and transform data from varied sources. Work with event-driven and batch architectures, implement authentication and integration patterns, ensure observability/monitoring, optimize data flows for cost and performance, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to onboard and maintain data sources at scale.

Lead market and client-level fundraising data analysis and publish original research and benchmarks. Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to produce ROI cases, client insights, and thought leadership. Present findings publicly at conferences, build repeatable insight frameworks and tools, and translate data into persuasive narratives for advancement leaders.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and models; collaborate with analysts and data scientists to provision prepared datasets; implement data quality, governance and monitoring; recommend technologies; lead root-cause analysis, code reviews and testing; mentor teammates and support production data environments.

Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using Python, Spark, and Airflow; collaborate with AI/ML and Product teams to deliver AI-native data products; identify and resolve ETL bottlenecks; ensure code quality through reviews and tests; own sprint deliverables and contribute to roadmap planning and major epics.

Lead people-analytics strategy for Talent Acquisition and Talent Development. Drive end-to-end analysis of complex workforce problems, deliver evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders, ensure data governance and quality, coach junior analysts, build metrics frameworks, and conduct benchmarking and external research to inform workforce strategy.

Own and improve the dbt modeling and semantic layers, implement CI/CD, tests, observability, and governance; build governed metrics for BI and AI consumption; partner with Data Engineering and Risk to stabilize pipelines and improve data quality and documentation.