Top Remote Data & Analytics Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead architecture, operation, and continuous improvement of cloud-native, enterprise-scale data platforms (Snowflake, cloud storage, streaming). Translate requirements into roadmaps, design and optimize data warehouses and lakes, automate operations with Python and IaC, mentor engineers, and deliver managed services across multiple client accounts while driving reliability, security, and performance.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and Python transformations. Writes optimized SQL, monitors pipeline reliability, troubleshoots failures, implements data-quality validation, and supports security and governance practices. Collaborates with engineers, analysts, stakeholders, and clients to define data contracts, improve platforms, document lineage, and deliver reliable analytics data.

Build and maintain Rayda’s data warehouse, analytics infrastructure, data models, transformation layers, pipelines, and workflows. Integrate product, billing, and customer interaction data from multiple platforms, improve data quality and governance, and create reliable datasets and analytical models. Enable self-service analytics and collaborate with Product, Growth, Commercial, and leadership teams to uncover usage patterns, churn risks, and expansion opportunities.

Leads and develops an analytics engineering team that builds data pipelines, analytical models, reporting, and scalable data infrastructure. Partners with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Operations to deliver reliable, actionable data. Establishes governance, quality, testing, documentation, and modeling standards while prioritizing analytics projects and communicating with stakeholders.

Supports data cleansing, quality checks, reporting, dashboards, data-source and metadata maintenance, data integrity, and normalization. Translates reporting requirements and analytical results for nontechnical audiences, handles sensitive information securely, and assists end users with reports and dashboards. Works under senior analyst guidance in a federal environment and must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

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.

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.

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.