Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Richmond, VA

Designs and builds scalable, reliable, observable batch and streaming data pipelines and models. Partners with stakeholders on data integration, validates data quality, writes tests, participates in code reviews, documents solutions, troubleshoots production issues, and aligns technical work with business needs. The role requires strong programming, database, data modeling, governance, and Databricks knowledge, with preferred experience in Spark, AWS data services, CI/CD, testing, orchestration, and transformation frameworks.

Conduct quantitative research for traders by testing market hypotheses, building and maintaining documented signals, performing event studies and backtests, and validating results against leakage, survivorship bias, transaction costs, and regime dependence. Organize reproducible point-in-time datasets, communicate findings clearly, track signal performance, and use AI tools to accelerate research and coding while verifying outputs.

Leads data quality, stewardship, verification, reporting readiness, user adoption, training, and support for the CIS Data Management platform. Manages a data operations team, establishes workflows and service standards, coordinates cross-functional initiatives, and partners with product and technology teams on testing, releases, system enhancements, and process improvements. The role also oversees Help Desk operations, develops user communities, translates stakeholder feedback into solutions, and promotes consistent data practices across a distributed affiliate network.

Lead cross-functional analytics initiatives across product, marketing, audio development, and business operations. Build data models, dashboards, self-serve reporting tools, and actionable company-wide metrics. Analyze activation funnels, A/B tests, growth KPIs, and product health while optimizing the analytics infrastructure. Partner with executives, engineering, product, marketing, and data engineering teams to improve governance, data adoption, and decision-making.

Develop enterprise Power BI solutions from discovery through adoption. Responsibilities include semantic modeling, advanced DAX and Power Query development, dashboard UX/UI design, governance, performance optimization, stakeholder workshops, client presentations, usability testing, adoption tracking, proposal support, and mentoring junior team members.

Lead the architecture and implementation of complex cloud-based data solutions for customers. Define strategic data roadmaps, support pre-sales engagements as a data engineering subject matter expert, interview and mentor architects and engineers, and oversee data standards and operating procedures. The role requires extensive AWS data architecture experience across traditional and modern data platforms, including big data, machine learning, generative AI, DataOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and Python automation.

The Analytics Architect will design and implement cloud-based analytics solutions, maintain data pipelines, ensure data quality, and collaborate with teams to enhance operational efficiency.

Leads Magellan Health’s enterprise data and analytics strategy, modernization, engineering, governance, business intelligence, and AI/ML enablement. Oversees data platforms, pipelines, quality, lineage, compliance, and reporting while partnering with clinical, operational, and financial stakeholders. Builds and develops a 30+ person organization, manages a $3M–$5M budget, oversees vendors, and presents investment cases to executive leadership. Drives transformation from a low-maturity environment to a governed, insight-driven enterprise data platform.

Manage Advancement data systems, donor and prospect information, fundraising portfolios, reporting, analytics, gift processing, and reconciliation. Maintain donor database integrity, security, and adoption; conduct prospect research and wealth screening; produce dashboards and KPI reports; train staff; and collaborate with Finance and fundraisers to optimize donor engagement and fundraising operations.

Design, build, and optimize enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud data lakes, lakehouse solutions, data models, and semantic layers across AWS and Azure. Ensure data quality, security, performance, reliability, and governance while supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives. Collaborate with product, engineering, IT, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot issues, and improve data architecture and practices.