Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and maintain Databricks data pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold layers. Ingest APIs, logs, billing exports, and reference data; implement attribution logic, governance, data quality monitoring, and cost optimization. Manage Unity Catalog permissions, lineage, refresh schedules, incremental processing, and CI/CD workflows while supporting multi-cloud storage and high-volume caller-identity data.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Design scalable API-based ETL, event-driven and batch processing systems; establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling; and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving complex platform initiatives to completion.

Designs, implements, and optimizes Salesforce Data Cloud solutions. Responsibilities include configuring data streams, integrating Salesforce and legacy data with MuleSoft or ETL tools, mapping data objects, creating identity resolution rules, building calculated insights with SQL, developing customer segments, configuring activation targets, and managing data governance, privacy compliance, system performance, storage, and usage.

Analyze performance marketing and subscription-funnel data, including acquisition efficiency, conversion, retention, churn, and customer lifetime value. Build automated Domo dashboards and governed reporting pipelines from multiple data sources. Investigate data anomalies, analyze A/B tests, define KPIs, and communicate insights to executives. Partner with marketing, product, engineering, finance, agencies, and BI contractors while independently executing analytics projects and improving reporting workflows.

Leads consumer and market insights for Yahoo Ads, partnering with sales and go-to-market teams to develop data-driven narratives, audience profiles, vertical trends, case studies, and client materials. Uses Yahoo first-party data, syndicated research, quantitative and qualitative methods, and generative AI tools to accelerate research. Builds validated analytical templates and self-service resources, collaborates on reporting pipelines and dashboards, and translates complex findings into executive-ready presentations.

Leads and builds Instructure’s decision science function, including hiring, team development, roadmap ownership, experimentation, causal and predictive modeling, executive insights, and data literacy. Partners with product, engineering, marketing, finance, and executives to guide product, pricing, retention, go-to-market, and operational decisions. Establishes analytical standards, supports data infrastructure, and ensures ethical, privacy-conscious use of student data.

Leads end-to-end data architecture, engineering pipelines, semantic-layer development, data quality, monitoring, and platform operations. Manages agile sprint planning, release delivery, DevOps metrics, and cross-functional project plans. Establishes MLOps and machine-learning platform capabilities, mentors data engineers, manages team members, and ensures reliable, well-governed data solutions for business intelligence and reporting.

Leads the design, optimization, and governance of scalable data architectures and pipelines. Ensures data quality, integrity, security, and compliance; mentors junior engineers; conducts audits and validation; and collaborates on data governance. The role requires expertise in SQL, Python, dimensional modeling, Snowflake on Azure, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ETL, and data warehousing, with preferred experience in Airflow, Kafka, healthcare, data lineage, and slowly changing dimensions.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.

Collects and analyzes data from project, financial, maintenance, and field systems; builds KPI dashboards and recurring reports; identifies trends, risks, and opportunities; supports budgeting and forecasting; validates data with project and operations teams; and communicates actionable insights to leadership while improving reporting processes.