Top Remote Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Data Analyst in Revenue Operations will analyze sales data, build models, and create reports using SQL, Excel, and BI tools to empower business decisions.

Gather and document business and functional requirements, analyze processes, recommend improvements, produce BRDs/FRDs/user stories and process maps, support solution design, UAT, testing and deployment, produce reports/dashboards, monitor project progress, and support change management and stakeholder communication.

Owner of the analytics foundation: design and maintain BigQuery/dbt models, pipelines, and Looker Studio reporting; build AI workflows and web apps on GCP; integrate marketing, e-commerce, and fulfillment data; ensure GCP ops, security, and reliability; use AI-assisted tools daily and collaborate with business and client stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end COGS and gross margin analysis for hardware and software products, model cost-saving scenarios, answer ambiguous executive questions, partner with data engineering/finance/product, build reliable datasets and analytical frameworks, and present recommendations to C-suite stakeholders.

Manage analytical service operations by overseeing a team, designing software for data mining, developing statistical models, and generating insights for marketing outcomes. Provide training and mentorship to direct reports.

Lead the enterprise data platform strategy and architecture, driving Snowflake/dbt-based platform evolution, self-service Data Mesh and medallion models. Build AI-ready pipelines, RAG systems, and observability/cost frameworks while managing a central data team, supporting federated BI, and executing hands-on technical work.

Lead strategic vision and execution of GitLab's data platform and analytics capabilities, focusing on AI-enabled self-service analytics and data governance.

Lead design and optimization of data models and pipelines for compliance and risk; standardize metrics and documentation; build data quality, lineage, and monitoring (including AI agents for automation); manage ETL scheduling, on-call pipeline support, and collaborate with product and non-technical partners to translate business needs into automated, production-ready data solutions.

Lead company-wide data governance and standards, enforce data contracts and schema/version control, manage PII/RBAC and master data, establish data-quality metrics and monitoring, grow and run the governance team, remain hands-on with data profiling and SQL, and use AI to accelerate governance work and modeling.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.