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

Lead the vision and execution of a scalable, multi-tenant data platform: own ingestion, warehouse, transformation, BI, and AI-on-data layers. Manage and grow a data engineering team, define engineering standards (CI/CD, infra-as-code, testing, lineage), productize integrations, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and GTM for client onboarding and data delivery.

The Data Architect will design scalable data solutions, enforce data standards, lead architecture discussions, and collaborate with stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing platforms, ensuring data compliance, optimizing pipelines, and guiding teams toward data-driven solutions.

Build reliable data models and semantic layer for AI-powered analyses. Support Product, Finance, and Customer Success with SQL-based analytics, BI dashboards, and stakeholder storytelling. Standardize data team processes, prioritize work, and collaborate across company to enable data-informed decisions.

Design and advance enterprise data and BI architecture: optimize OLTP/OLAP models, establish modeling/integration/governance standards, lead POCs, mentor teams, enable AI/ML, and guide cross-functional implementation from concept to production.

Perform geospatial wildfire hazard and risk modeling using fire behavior software and GIS. Calibrate fuelscapes and vegetation/canopy fuel layers, support nationwide risk assessments, translate fire workflows into software user stories, and collaborate with developers to test and deploy Wildfire Risk datasets.

Support GiveWell research by quality-checking and updating cost-effectiveness models, conducting desk research, summarizing grantee monitoring and evaluation, writing clear public summaries, and performing ad-hoc high-impact projects and project-management support for research investigations.

Design and maintain company-wide dashboards, define KPI frameworks, implement tracking and data governance, write advanced SQL, partner with product and engineering, build predictive/AI-ready data layers, automate reporting, and present insights to leadership to drive operational and financial improvements.

Lead definition and evolution of cloud data architecture and analytics platform using a lakehouse approach. Design secure, scalable AWS data platforms, medallion data layers, data modeling standards, ETL/ELT and streaming pipelines, governance, observability, and AI/ML enablement. Drive tool selection, cross-team architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and enforce data security, compliance, and operational excellence across the organization.

Serve as primary DBA SME bridging on-premises SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric. Design hybrid database architectures, implement cloud-based SQL services, establish Data Operations processes and SLAs, manage data integration, security controls, performance tuning, monitoring, and disaster recovery to support analytics and AI workloads.

The role oversees analytical characterization and comparability studies for biologics, ensuring regulatory compliance and leadership in product development.