Top Remote Data & Analytics Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll optimize data workflows, manage data engineering projects, mentor junior engineers, and ensure robust data solutions meet business needs.

Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, KPIs, and executive insights using SQL, Power BI, and other BI tools. Reconcile operational and financial data, investigate anomalies, ensure reporting quality, and document data models, metadata, governance, and reporting inventories. The role also performs advanced data manipulation, visualization, data storytelling, and analytical recommendations. Fraud and disputes domain knowledge is preferred.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and datasets in Databricks using Python, Spark, and SQL. Supports SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, and data warehousing environments while improving performance, reliability, data quality, and scalability. Integrates enterprise data sources, enables reporting and AI/ML workloads, and partners with business and IT teams to deliver technical data solutions.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and datasets in Databricks using Python, Spark, SQL, and Delta Lake. Supports SQL Server, SSIS, and SSRS environments while improving performance, reliability, data quality, and scalability. Integrates enterprise data sources, applies data warehousing practices, and partners with business users, analysts, and IT teams to deliver reporting, analytics, and AI/ML solutions.

Build scalable Tableau dashboards and reporting systems using operational data from Salesforce, AWS, SQL databases, APIs, and vendor platforms. Analyze large datasets, resolve data-quality issues, identify performance drivers and emerging risks, and translate findings into actionable recommendations. Prepare business-review insights for senior leaders, standardize metrics, improve reporting efficiency, and partner cross-functionally to support customer experience and operational decisions.

Lead business analytics strategy by developing dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, automated reporting, and performance measurement frameworks. Analyze sales and operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, translating findings into actionable recommendations. Partner with Sales, Operations, Finance, IT, and leadership on forecasting, business cases, analytics modernization, governance, and process improvement. Communicate insights through reporting and data storytelling while mentoring analysts and leading cross-functional initiatives.

Lead enterprise and domain data modeling across conceptual, canonical, logical, physical, and business models. Translate business concepts into scalable data structures, facilitate stakeholder workshops, establish business glossaries, and align models with governance, metadata, MDM, analytics, AI, reporting, and data stewardship initiatives. Support engineering teams implementing cloud and lakehouse solutions while serving as a domain architecture lead for durable, flexible modern data platforms.

Designs, develops, deploys, maintains, and optimizes ETL processes and cloud-based system integrations for healthcare data warehousing and business intelligence. Works with DHA and Cerner inpatient and outpatient data, develops database procedures, validates migrations, performs data mapping and modeling, and supports data science and machine learning teams. The role also documents processes, tunes performance, captures client requirements, and manages data transformation initiatives.

Investigates data governance issues using information management tools and data sources, identifies root causes, and partners with data owners, clients, vendors, and architects on resolution. Establishes governance baselines, standards, metrics, audits, and reporting. Defines governance requirements for data elements, integrates governance tests into ETL processes, communicates governance benefits, and drives continuous improvement of data management systems, policies, and processes.

Leads enterprise data architecture across Federal Student Aid’s Common Data Model, CRM platforms, servicer integrations, analytics, and downstream systems. Defines canonical models, systems of record, data contracts, integration patterns, governance, lineage, quality, security, privacy, and lifecycle controls. Develops reference architectures, decision records, modernization roadmaps, and data-flow designs; evaluates architectural tradeoffs; supports leadership reviews; collaborates across engineering, integration, security, analytics, product, and business teams; and mentors technical staff.