Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

Analyze sales, marketing, and customer success performance, including pipeline, funnel conversion, campaigns, retention, and revenue drivers. Build and maintain dbt models and marts using Salesforce and modern data-stack tools, while owning data quality and documentation. Contribute to Lighthouse, a BI-as-code platform, and develop AI-assisted analytics workflows. Partner with stakeholders to frame ambiguous questions, deliver recommendations, and communicate progress in two-week sprints.

Analyze healthcare claims and clinical data to build data models, analytical pipelines, predictive and risk-model inputs, dashboards, scorecards, and reusable analytics assets. Translate ambiguous customer and clinical questions into actionable data plans, manage delivery across stakeholders, present findings to customers, maintain quality standards, mentor junior analysts, and contribute to analytics roadmaps, automation, and scalable methodologies.

Design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and integrations for an RCT-driven voter platform. Extend data platform, optimize cost and reliability for election-scale loads, lead cross-system projects, ensure data quality, document systems, and participate in on-call incident response.

The Senior Analyst will support the personalization algorithm by conducting analyses, testing features, managing projects, and collaborating with teams to improve food recommendations for customers.

Own Silver and Gold medallion-layer modeling and semantic layer governance using dbt and SQL. Improve warehouse performance and cost, standardize BI tooling, collaborate with stakeholders to produce trusted metrics, troubleshoot data quality, and evolve analytics platform.

Lead ownership of client billing data and infrastructure for Finance: run reconciliations, investigate billing issues, build BI dashboards, automate workflows with SQL/Snowflake, monitor revenue leakage, and support Billing 2.0 UAT while training Finance on reporting and Looker standards.