Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Build AI-augmented BI dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-ready metadata. Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate SQL and dashboard development, productionize ML outputs into BI, enforce data quality and governance, and present insights to business stakeholders including C-suite.

Own the company’s metric registry and canonical definitions, resolve conflicting metrics, enforce definitions in semantic and catalog systems, and retire redundant reporting assets. Build data quality checks, route failures to accountable owners, and evaluate AI agents against ground truth. Enable trustworthy self-service analytics through governed data. The role requires strong SQL, production ownership of a semantic or metrics layer, data catalog or lineage experience, clear documentation, and cross-functional decision-making.

Own end-to-end data products, including source onboarding, API and file-feed ingestion, orchestration, incremental and idempotent pipelines, Snowflake and dbt Cloud modeling, testing, documentation, alerting, and production reliability. Establish engineering standards, manage secrets and governance, use AI coding tools responsibly, collaborate with vendors and stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, scorecards, KPI solutions, and analytical models that provide business performance insights. Responsibilities include trend and root-cause analysis, forecasting, data validation, stakeholder requirements gathering, reporting automation, process improvement, documentation, and data quality governance. The role partners with cross-functional teams and communicates findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Build and maintain production data pipelines, Airflow DAGs, Snowflake infrastructure, and Data Vault 2.0 models. Ensure data quality, observability, security, governance, reliability, and cost efficiency through automated testing and CI/CD. Lead technical projects end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders, and support SOX-relevant reporting while developing expertise in commercial insurance data and processes.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Lead revenue analytics by developing business cases, dashboards, KPI frameworks, experiments, and automated analytics solutions. Partner with client success, marketplace, merchants, and cross-functional teams to evaluate performance, guide go-to-market decisions, quantify product value, and scale data-driven execution. Serve as the analytics subject matter expert while translating structured and unstructured data into actionable recommendations and compelling stakeholder narratives.

Lead customer listening and Voice of Customer programs, including NPS, CSAT, CES, surveys, and interviews. Analyze qualitative and quantitative customer data to identify drivers, trends, pain points, and opportunities. Present insights to executives and cross-functional teams, facilitate action planning, and drive systemic customer experience improvements. Evaluate AI tools for sentiment analysis, theme extraction, and customer research while helping build a data-driven, customer-centric culture.

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.