Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Detroit, MI

Designs and operates batch, streaming, and real-time data platforms and pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow, and cloud infrastructure. Owns data lake evolution, data quality, observability, reliability, governance, event instrumentation, schema management, and privacy controls for PII, retention, deletion, and residency. Leads complex initiatives end-to-end, troubleshoots production issues, mentors engineers, and develops AI agent harnesses that enforce data engineering standards and quality gates.

Lead a GTM Analytics team supporting Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Customer Operations. Manage embedded analysts, establish trusted reporting and QA processes, review SQL and dashboards, guide funnel, campaign, sales, support, forecasting, segmentation, attribution, and experimentation analysis, and deliver executive recommendations. Partner with GTM leaders and data engineers, coach analysts, and develop self-service analytics, automation, governed dashboards, metric documentation, and AI-assisted workflows.

Owns RTB House’s performance media measurement strategy across products. Responsibilities include defining measurement taxonomies, evaluating attribution, incrementality, MMM, and MTA methodologies, managing third-party measurement partners, developing testing playbooks, piloting identity and measurement approaches, translating insights into market-facing messaging, and training commercial teams. The role requires hands-on performance media buying or oversight experience and strong ability to communicate measurement concepts, limitations, and results to technical, executive, and commercial audiences.

Leads a team of five experienced analysts and data scientists while personally owning strategic analytics across ecommerce, health, supply chain, inventory, fulfillment, and merchandising. Partners with executives, establishes KPI and reporting standards, prioritizes the analytics roadmap, and delivers actionable business insights. The role also advances AI-native, self-service analytics capabilities, strengthens data governance and quality, and builds a high-performing analytics culture.

Designs and manages scalable data pipelines, contracts, transformation layers, and analytics models. The role focuses on data governance, observability, lineage, configuration validation, and collaboration with product engineering teams. It requires processing large datasets, integrating cloud and on-premises industrial technologies, and implementing streaming and message-queuing solutions, ideally in cybersecurity or industrial environments.

Serve as the primary technical escalation point for managed services data and analytics clients. Troubleshoot and enhance Power BI, Fabric, Azure, and other analytics environments; gather requirements; translate business needs into scalable solutions; support client onboarding; maintain documentation; mentor support staff; and partner with client success and consulting teams. The role also contributes to continuous improvement, training, knowledge sharing, and AI-enabled productivity initiatives.

Leads and develops a data engineering team supporting People Analytics and AI-assisted workforce analytics. Designs scalable data models, pipelines, semantic layers, testing frameworks, and governance practices. Remains hands-on with production code, reviews, and technical problem-solving while partnering with People Analytics, business, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Establishes engineering standards across Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, CI/CD, data quality, observability, privacy, and security.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Build and lead Ashley’s consumer insights capability, including research roadmaps, custom qualitative and quantitative studies, insights repositories, prioritization processes, and executive-ready storytelling. Translate consumer, retail, marketplace, feedback, and business data into actionable recommendations for product, marketing, merchandising, pricing, and growth decisions. Influence cross-functional stakeholders, develop AI-enabled synthesis workflows, and manage one direct report while operating resourcefully with imperfect data.

Own end-to-end product analytics: define questions and success metrics, run A/B tests, build dashboards and reusable SQL/Python analyses, investigate performance changes, and collaborate with Product, ML, and Data teams to inform product decisions.