Top Data Management Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads data strategy and analytics for the Risk/Credit team, translating complex datasets into insights for Credit, Operations, Marketing, Product, and Finance. Responsibilities include automating Python/R workflows, building Tableau dashboards, partnering with Data Engineering on Databricks workflows, conducting strategic analyses, monitoring data quality, presenting recommendations to leadership, and documenting analytical methodologies. The role requires strong SQL, cloud data warehouse, visualization, analytics programming, distributed computing, and version-control expertise.

Own end-to-end analytics delivery for a client POD, translating business priorities into workplans, coordinating cross-functional teams, governing delivery and revenue KPIs, and managing risks through resolution. Perform hands-on data profiling, validation, reconciliation, exploratory analysis, automation, and quality reviews using SQL, Python, Databricks, and Excel. Create executive-ready KPI, revenue, and business-impact narratives, prioritize initiatives, support business cases, and identify opportunities for analytics automation and AI-enabled improvements.

Lead the Data & Analytics Engineering teams, overseeing the end-to-end data platform and AI integration, while managing team growth and partnerships with business stakeholders.

Leads end-to-end data architecture, ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, monitoring, and BI platform operations. Manages Tableau infrastructure, drives project plans and agile sprint delivery, establishes AI-enabled analytics capabilities, and partners with cross-functional stakeholders. Coaches and manages data engineering team members while ensuring data availability, accuracy, security, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Leads and scales a global data engineering and analytics team while remaining hands-on with architecture, pipelines, data quality, dimensional modeling, dashboards, reporting, and customer-facing deliverables. Owns the analytical data platform supporting clinical, operational, product, financial, and customer data. Partners with cross-functional stakeholders, investigates complex data issues, improves platform reliability and security, and mentors engineers.

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.

Manage secure, compliant data environments, including governance policies, data architecture, integration, quality, security controls, audits, and performance optimization. Lead data analysis, reporting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration while mentoring junior staff. The role requires protecting sensitive or classified data, maintaining access controls and encryption, and ensuring compliance with government and organizational standards.

Manage and mentor a data engineering team while leading Snowflake-based platform architecture, enterprise data integrations, governance, observability, and pipeline reliability. Partner with analysts, business leaders, product management, and engineering teams to improve trusted self-service data access. Establish engineering standards, modernize the data stack, optimize costs, and deliver an AI-ready data foundation supporting analytics, reporting, and future AI initiatives.

Lead a small data engineering team partnering with Engagement Marketing to build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality, define marketing metrics, integrate trusted data with ad platforms, and drive the data roadmap to enable measurement and growth.

Lead a team delivering actuarial statistical reporting, regulatory submissions, and analytics. Ensure compliance with bureau requirements, drive automated reporting and UAT for policy/claims systems (Guidewire, Solartis), partner with actuarial, technology, and vendors, and manage stakeholder/regulator interactions while mentoring staff and improving data governance and reporting processes.

Own operational health, governance, and integrity of GTM customer and prospect data across Salesforce, Marketo, Demandbase and integrated systems. Implement data quality programs, manage enrichment and integrations, troubleshoot sync failures, support segmentation and reporting, document standards, and enable scalable automation and AI workflows to support Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Analytics.

Manages reporting and analytics operations, teams, workflows, critical business intelligence reports, and performance metrics. Leads data process improvements, requirements analysis, systems development, testing, reporting projects, and process re-engineering. Uses SQL, data warehouses, QlikView, Tableau, and related tools to support operational, financial, quality, compliance, and strategic decisions. Mentors staff, manages priorities, monitors risks, and partners with business leaders and clients.

Lead a data engineering team building and operating NPR's data warehouse, pipelines, BI, and personalization systems. Responsibilities include people leadership, hiring, cross-functional collaboration, Agile delivery, technical design and code review, automation for developer experience, incident response, and vendor management.

Own the strategy, governance, architecture, modeling, and reporting foundation for People Experience data. Build governed metrics, semantic and consolidated data layers, dashboards, data catalogs, quality monitoring, and operating processes from the ground up. Manage intake, prioritization, access, privacy, enablement, and self-service adoption while partnering with stakeholders on analytics and future AI capabilities. The role combines strategic program leadership with hands-on SQL, data modeling, reporting, and team mentoring.

Lead design and build of a cloud-based data platform; manage and mentor data engineering staff; define engineering standards, data governance, and access controls; partner with stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable data pipelines and platform services for analytics and AI.

Manage CVS Health's data partnerships and monetization strategy, source new partnerships, ensure operational success, and drive data product adoption across analytics teams.

Lead a hands-on data engineering team to build and scale production data pipelines, datasets, and observability for alternative-data products. Drive architecture, data modeling, QA, and AI-ready dataset design while coaching engineers, partnering with product and research, and owning operational excellence across Databricks, Airflow, SQL, and PySpark.

Manage client-facing data and analytics projects: define data strategy, build automation and ETL, develop visualizations and predictive analytics, drive transformation, manage scope/budget, and communicate findings to non-technical stakeholders while leveraging finance knowledge.

The Exposure Data Manager leads analytics to understand exposure patterns, enforces data standards, ensures data quality, and collaborates across departments for effective exposure management.

The Clinical Data Manager oversees the quality and integrity of clinical trial data, ensuring compliance with protocols and regulations while collaborating with various teams.

Lead design, build, and operation of data architecture, pipelines, and semantic layers. Manage sprint planning, DevOps metrics, data quality and monitoring, and MLOps enablement. Partner with stakeholders, coach engineers, track project plans, and ensure data availability, accuracy, and documentation.

Lead and grow a data engineering team; define architecture and standards for ETL/ELT pipelines; hands-on design, code review, and development; ensure production reliability, monitoring, and incident response; partner with product and engineering on data roadmap.

Manage receipt-based data ingestion (OCR, transcription, email, account connections); ensure pipeline stability and data quality; translate business requirements into collection specs; partner with Engineering and Product; manage vendors, forecasting and budgets; produce KPI reporting; and support EU rollout and GDPR-aligned processes.

Lead architecture and operations for the end-to-end data lifecycle: pipeline orchestration, dbt projects, cloud warehouse performance, dimensional modeling, data observability, HIPAA controls, and platform governance. Mentor a distributed data engineering team, partner with Analytics and Finance, and prioritize durable platform capabilities that enable BI, experimentation, and AI use cases.

Lead and scale the enterprise data hub: manage the data warehouse, build reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines, implement governance and data modeling best practices, deliver GTM-ready metrics, enable AI/ML use cases, prioritize the data roadmap, and lead/mentor a data engineering team.