Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Own the end-to-end architecture and roadmap for MyFitnessPal’s product data stack. Coordinate data platform contributions across engineering, analytics, and BI teams; establish data movement, standardization, governance, security, and compliance practices; evaluate and consolidate tools; manage access, licensing, and spend; and drive architecture standards, documentation, and adoption across the organization.

Performs data quality assurance for large datasets by validating imports, updates, transformations, and extracts. Writes SQL test queries, reviews database logic, executes test cases, identifies defects, verifies corrections, and documents testing results. Collaborates with data engineers, business analysts, project managers, and QA professionals to ensure data integrity and compliance with requirements.

Designs and supports enterprise data integrations, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, data models, and transformations across Microsoft platforms. Maintains data quality, governance, security, and reliability while developing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release processes. Troubleshoots integration and deployment issues, manages environments, supports reporting and analytics, and collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions.

Build risk data models, analyze fraud and risk trends, create Tableau dashboards and automated reports, and deliver actionable insights to Risk Operations leaders. The role manages analytics requirements and roadmaps while using SQL, dbt, Dataform, and AI tools to support fraud strategy, compliance monitoring, loss forecasting, and executive reporting.

Leads Gartner research and thought leadership on data management, governance, and AI. Develops actionable insights, analyzes market trends, advises executive clients, delivers presentations, supports sales and conferences, reviews content, improves research processes, and mentors analysts. Requires deep expertise in data and analytics, AI implementation, data security, data value creation, executive communication, research, and strategic analysis. Remote U.S. role with travel up to 25%.

Build and maintain IICS ETL/ELT pipelines, develop Amazon Redshift data models, and use SQL and Python for data transformation and automation. Create Power BI reporting models, implement data quality checks, document pipelines, and collaborate with client stakeholders and engineering teams. The role requires autonomous work, strong communication, and the ability to translate technical solutions into business context, with bonus value for Veeva or life sciences experience.

Own data quality across systems by designing validation rules, reconciliation processes, profiling workflows, and quality controls. Investigate discrepancies to identify root causes, apply statistical methods to detect anomalies, evaluate machine learning model outputs, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Partner with engineering, BI, and business teams to establish data quality standards, metrics, controls, and reporting practices.