Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Owns and codifies business definitions and calculation methods for legal spend analytics, audits legacy Excel/PowerPoint artifacts, validates analyses (SQL and AI), supports reporting and storytelling for senior law department and C-suite audiences, and helps migrate analyses into modern analytics tooling.

Lead architecture and hands-on engineering to design, scale, and govern a cloud-native lakehouse using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Build batch/streaming pipelines, ensure HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, produce analytics-ready datasets, mentor engineers, and drive platform strategy, governance, and reliability.

Own the architecture and hands-on development of Tala’s shared data and analytics platforms. Build semantic layers, governed business metrics, data models, pipelines, services, tooling, and AI-enabled analytics workflows. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives spanning Product, Engineering, Analytics, Finance, and Accounting; improve governance, reliability, usability, and documentation; resolve architectural bottlenecks; and mentor engineers through technical leadership.

Own and evolve the analytics platform, including data models, pipelines, metric definitions, semantic layers, dashboards, and self-service data products. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable technical solutions. Lead data initiatives, improve ELT reliability and governance, resolve quality issues, mentor teammates, and shape the Analytics team’s technical roadmap. The role requires strong SQL, dbt, modern data-stack experience, business communication, and independent execution in an ambiguous environment.

Leads quantitative and qualitative research, evaluation, and data analysis initiatives supporting California Community College student success, equity, and policy goals. Responsibilities include analyzing complex datasets with Stata, SQL, R, or Atlas.ti; managing projects through planning, implementation, and reporting; producing research reports, policy briefs, presentations, dashboards, and visualizations; translating findings into recommendations; advising stakeholders; and representing the organization at meetings and conferences.

Conduct market research and analysis on ADAS, autonomous driving, electronics, and automotive supply chains in North America. Develop forecasts, build industry relationships, identify technology trends, support sales and business development, present insights to stakeholders and clients, and contribute to industry reports and publications.

Owns retention analytics for a new Loyalty & Retention organization, including churn definitions, survival analysis, forecasting, experimentation, acquisition attribution, satisfaction analysis, payment recovery, and save-desk performance. The role builds reporting and predictive models from scratch, partners with BI and actuarial teams, influences cross-functional decisions, and presents retention findings and forecasts to executives.

Designs and governs enterprise data architecture supporting VHA EHR modernization, reporting, analytics, clinical systems, and data integration. Responsibilities include data modeling, governance, metadata and lineage management, APIs, ETL, interoperability, data quality, cloud infrastructure, performance optimization, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also leads architectural enhancements through Agile processes and evaluates emerging data technologies.

Leads enterprise analytical modeling and semantic architecture, establishes standards for testing, documentation, governance, lineage, observability, and access, and develops reusable governed data products. Partners across Product, Engineering, Finance, Clinical, Research, Marketing, and AI teams; guides architecture reviews, data quality ownership, semantic layer design, and governance adoption. Mentors engineers and drives modernization of analytical environments.

Leads Versapay’s enterprise data strategy, architecture, governance, quality, accessibility, and commercialization. The role unifies transactional and analytical data, establishes semantic models and data catalogs, enables secure AI and agentic capabilities, develops external data products, manages data platform costs, and leads teams across data engineering, analytics, BI, and platform operations. The Senior Director partners with executive, product, engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and compliance stakeholders.