Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines and warehousing architecture from ingestion through analytics and incentive payouts. Lead data platform architecture, dbt modeling, data quality, lineage, observability, performance, and cost management. Partner with engineers and analysts on telematics accuracy and driver incentive reporting. Use AI coding tools daily to develop and review pipelines, SQL, and data models.

Analyzes complex healthcare data to identify trends, develop statistical and machine learning methodologies, and produce actionable insights. Builds dashboards and reports, supports product and business decisions, promotes data literacy, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. The role also ensures analytics practices comply with healthcare privacy, governance, security, and regulatory requirements, including HIPAA.

Convert, map, load, validate, and troubleshoot banking data for client implementations on the Lumin Digital platform. The role manages data conversion projects through launch, collaborates with clients and cross-functional teams, resolves data and system issues, identifies project risks, and improves conversion processes. Responsibilities include testing multiple file formats, ensuring data integrity, supporting vendor transitions and mergers, generating exception reports, and providing technical consultation.

Manages a data engineering team responsible for scalable, reliable data pipelines, infrastructure, and analytics tooling. Provides mentorship, performance management, and technical leadership while coordinating with product, analytics, finance, compliance, engineering, and regulators. Prioritizes cross-functional projects, supports data architecture and governance, ensures performance and reliability, and operates within strict regulatory and audit requirements.

Own the company’s data function by designing and optimizing Snowflake architecture, pipelines, integrations, data models, BI dashboards, metric definitions, governance, and data-quality standards. Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to translate operational needs into trusted data products. Automate recurring reporting, troubleshoot ingestion issues, perform ad hoc analysis, and establish scalable analytics practices as the first dedicated analytics hire.

Owns enterprise workforce intelligence and employee listening strategy. Analyzes employee sentiment, workforce trends, talent, skills, organizational effectiveness, and work data to identify risks and opportunities. Develops dashboards, analytical methodologies, AI-enabled insight products, and self-service resources. Partners with HR leaders and data owners to translate complex quantitative and qualitative findings into actionable recommendations for workforce planning, succession, organization design, automation, and capability decisions.

Supports loyalty and retention analytics through A/B test management, KPI tracking, recurring dashboards, and performance reporting. Monitors churn, winback, cancellation, and loyalty metrics; identifies trends, risks, and opportunities; and translates findings into actionable recommendations. The role also manages loyalty merchandise planning and replenishment, collaborates with Data Science and program owners, coordinates analytics requests, and prepares MBR/QBR materials.

Lead enterprise data architecture across AWS and Databricks Lakehouse: design scalable data models, ensure governance and data quality, mentor teams, evaluate and adopt data technologies (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog), oversee large projects and deliverables, and incorporate generative AI to accelerate data modeling and delivery.

Owns and leads commercial master data management across HCP, HCO, payer, patient, product, and organizational domains. Establishes governance frameworks, stewardship programs, data quality standards, matching and survivorship rules, and trusted golden records. Manages commercial data platforms, integrations, analytics datasets, releases, vendors, and offshore teams. Writes SQL, builds validations and data pipelines, troubleshoots integrations, supports commercial launches, and drives operational improvements across pharmaceutical commercial systems.

Analyzes claims portfolio data to identify trends, forecast losses and reserves, monitor performance, and explain variances. Develops reporting tools, dashboards, and data models while ensuring data integrity and compliance with claims policies. Partners with Claims, Finance, Actuarial, IT, Operations, and external stakeholders to support portfolio reviews, resolve reporting gaps, improve processes, and provide actionable insights for business decisions.