Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Lincoln, NE

Designs, implements, operates, and optimizes database and data-management systems supporting classified intelligence missions. Responsibilities include data architecture, SQL and NoSQL database administration, query and throughput optimization, ETL pipeline optimization, performance monitoring, capacity planning, documentation, backup and restore, audit logging, and continuity planning. The role requires onsite work in the Washington, DC region, U.S. citizenship, and a final Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility or access.

Design and deliver modern data platforms, scalable and secure ingestion and transformation pipelines, durable data models, streaming systems, and reporting layers. Partner directly with clients and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture, explain tradeoffs, and own delivery outcomes. The role includes production implementation across cloud data platforms, orchestration, governance, real-time technologies, and analytics or AI data consumption.

Own high-impact data products, ingestion pipelines, and granular data feeds end to end. Analyze massive datasets to answer client and stakeholder questions, ensure data accuracy, and derive actionable insights. Improve products and pipelines by developing methodologies, scaling third-party datasets, and creating data modules. The role requires clear communication, attention to detail, methodical problem solving, prioritization, experimentation, and strong ownership. Training includes SQL, PySpark, Python fundamentals, and internal tools.

Analyzes retailer, marketplace, syndicated, and household panel data to identify customer and category growth opportunities for Target’s Self Care business. Develops assortment, pricing, promotion, competitive, seasonal, and omni-channel recommendations for online and in-store growth. Presents insights, collaborates with customer development managers and internal partners, supports go-to-market initiatives, and improves analytical best practices and accuracy.

Manages the enterprise Data Governance and Analytics Center of Excellence, leading staff, governance initiatives, analytics strategy, maturity modeling, budgets, vendors, and planning. Coordinates data quality, stewardship, privacy, acquisition, and release programs while partnering with data scientists, engineers, technology governance teams, and business stakeholders. Develops executive presentations, aligns enterprise definitions and algorithms, establishes standards, and ensures analytics projects and business cases meet organizational objectives and deadlines.

Build and own production data pipelines using Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and Python; implement canonical data models; embed validation, quality checks, lineage, freshness, and alerting; support governed self-service data delivery; migrate workloads; partner with business consumers; participate in on-call and incident reviews; and mentor engineers while maintaining strong testing, CI/CD, documentation, and code-review practices.

Design, build, and lead a scalable, configuration-driven data integration platform. Improve performance, automate monitoring and deployments, provide escalated support, and collaborate across product and engineering to deliver reliable, secure data integrations.

Build and own workforce capacity, forecasting, and scenario models that guide hiring, coverage, account assignments, and organizational design. Maintain executive-ready dashboards and real-time visibility into workforce supply, demand, hiring pipelines, utilization, attrition risks, and workload distribution. Partner with HR, Finance, Revenue Operations, and business leaders to translate complex workforce data into actionable decisions and ensure consistent reporting and assumptions across systems.

Serves as a strategic analytics partner to Marketing, owning funnel, attribution, ROI, account scoring, experimentation, and pipeline analytics. Builds scalable datasets, dashboards, and quality controls while connecting customer, campaign, product usage, CRM, and revenue data. Delivers executive-ready reporting, QBR insights, and recommendations that improve conversion, marketing investment effectiveness, account-based marketing, product adoption, and pipeline growth.

Design and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, analytical dashboards, and reporting tools supporting clinical, research, and operational priorities. Write production-quality Python, R, and SQL; develop data architecture; partner with data scientists to operationalize analytics; integrate AI-enabled workflow improvements; establish engineering standards; and mentor junior team members.