Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Own the Finance and Operations data layer, integrating systems into Snowflake and Omni, building reusable data models, dashboards, governed metrics, validation checks, and reconciliation workflows. Partner with Finance, Operations, and Data teams to translate business processes into trusted analytics, improve data quality, automate reporting, and support leadership decision-making.

Analyzes healthcare claims, provider, pharmacy, and enrollment data to identify trends, improve data quality, optimize workflows, reduce costs, and support business decisions. Translates business needs into requirements, develops complex SQL queries, validates data, recommends process improvements, coordinates projects, and serves as a liaison among operations, research and development, IT, and external partners. Also mentors team members and communicates technical findings to nontechnical stakeholders.

Owns and codifies business definitions and calculation methods for legal spend analytics, audits legacy Excel/PowerPoint artifacts, validates analyses (SQL and AI), supports reporting and storytelling for senior law department and C-suite audiences, and helps migrate analyses into modern analytics tooling.

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.

Own and evolve the analytics platform, including data models, pipelines, metric definitions, semantic layers, dashboards, and self-service data products. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable technical solutions. Lead data initiatives, improve ELT reliability and governance, resolve quality issues, mentor teammates, and shape the Analytics team’s technical roadmap. The role requires strong SQL, dbt, modern data-stack experience, business communication, and independent execution in an ambiguous environment.

Owns retention analytics for a new Loyalty & Retention organization, including churn definitions, survival analysis, forecasting, experimentation, acquisition attribution, satisfaction analysis, payment recovery, and save-desk performance. The role builds reporting and predictive models from scratch, partners with BI and actuarial teams, influences cross-functional decisions, and presents retention findings and forecasts to executives.

Designs and governs enterprise data architecture supporting VHA EHR modernization, reporting, analytics, clinical systems, and data integration. Responsibilities include data modeling, governance, metadata and lineage management, APIs, ETL, interoperability, data quality, cloud infrastructure, performance optimization, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also leads architectural enhancements through Agile processes and evaluates emerging data technologies.

Build and operate production-grade data pipelines and models connecting marketing, event, operational, and SaaS data into Databricks. Own data quality, testing, monitoring, lineage, orchestration, attribution, identity resolution, and governed semantic-layer contributions. Partner cross-functionally on privacy-aware data flows, event taxonomies, and reliable Growth data products while improving engineering standards and maintainability.

Leads public financial management data analysis, fund-flow and expenditure reconciliation, fiduciary risk assessment, and verification support in Uganda. Produces dashboards, exception reports, risk flags, and evidence summaries from financial, HRIS, and administrative data. Supervises and trains analysts and verification teams, coordinates with government and project stakeholders, maintains audit trails, and identifies issues requiring targeted field verification.