Top Remote Data & Analytics Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Develops scalable data models, dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that support business decisions. Partners with stakeholders to translate requirements, ensures data accuracy and usability, provides technical guidance to end users, documents architectures and processes, and communicates findings to technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires advanced Spotfire, SQL, and business intelligence experience, plus familiarity with modern data platforms and AI-assisted development tools.

Design, build, maintain, and optimize Spark and Scala ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS for terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets. Work across S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and monitoring systems, resolve production data-quality and performance issues, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, and support on-call operations. Use generative AI to improve pipeline development, monitoring, and engineering productivity.

Execute and coordinate market research projects from questionnaire setup through fieldwork monitoring. Program, test, and manage surveys on the Appinio platform; ensure data quality; resolve fieldwork issues; and support analysis and reporting. Collaborate with Research Consultants, Account Management, and Product teams, including integrating AI into research workflows. Manage multiple projects with strong attention to detail, organization, and ownership.

Build analytical frameworks, measurement methodologies, and decision support to drive enterprise decisions across marketing, loyalty, pricing, menu, media, and operations. Mine and integrate customer, transaction, digital, and operational data; develop segmentation, predictive models, and dashboards; lead test-and-learn, incrementality, and forecasting efforts; translate analysis into clear business recommendations and scalable decisioning tools.

Lead enterprise data architecture across multiple SaaS products by unifying reporting platforms, data models, and analytics capabilities. Assess current systems, define target-state architecture, establish data governance and quality standards, separate analytical workloads from transactional systems, and develop phased migration roadmaps. Guide database, engineering, and BI teams on cloud platforms, integration, modeling, performance, security, and reliability. Enable trusted cross-product reporting, governed self-service analytics, and data foundations for AI and advanced analytics.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Build and lead complex data integration projects from client onboarding through ongoing platform usage. Analyze and resolve data discrepancies, troubleshoot SIS and SSO integrations, develop internal Retool applications, perform code reviews, prioritize backlogs, manage projects, and mentor teammates. The role requires advanced SQL, development expertise, technical leadership, and collaboration with internal stakeholders, with Ruby on Rails, AWS, Git, and K-12 education experience preferred or desired.

Leads audience research, advertising effectiveness, brand lift studies, and first-party audience analysis. Partners with Sales, Creative Strategy, Media Planning, and leadership to develop actionable insights, sales narratives, measurement strategies, presentations, and client recommendations. Manages research vendors, budgets, contracts, and methodologies while scaling research tools, dashboards, benchmarks, and best practices across the organization.

Lead a Salesforce data engineering team to design, deliver, and support Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations and migrations, data modeling, ETL/transformations, automation, and observability. Manage hiring, performance, and career development; partner with stakeholders; adopt AI/LLM agent tooling to automate workflows and improve data quality; reduce technical debt and document systems and processes.