Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale GCP data ecosystems, including PB-scale platforms and AWS-to-GCP migrations. Establish data platform roadmaps, self-service architectures, governance, security, quality, and Infrastructure as Code standards. Architect solutions using GCP data, analytics, AI, streaming, and containerization technologies. Lead cross-functional engineering teams, mentor staff, advise executives, manage technical risks, and communicate the business value of data initiatives.

Manages the enterprise Data Governance and Analytics Center of Excellence, leading staff, governance initiatives, analytics strategy, maturity modeling, budgets, vendors, and planning. Coordinates data quality, stewardship, privacy, acquisition, and release programs while partnering with data scientists, engineers, technology governance teams, and business stakeholders. Develops executive presentations, aligns enterprise definitions and algorithms, establishes standards, and ensures analytics projects and business cases meet organizational objectives and deadlines.

Support managed-service customers by administering production Oracle databases, including monitoring, backup and recovery, maintenance, patching, upgrades, performance troubleshooting, security, and high-availability solutions. Assist with installations, automation, documentation, incident and change management, and availability and capacity reporting. The role is customer-facing and involves supporting Oracle environments across on-premises and cloud platforms while developing Database-as-a-Service capabilities under senior DBA guidance.

Serves as a strategic analytics partner to Marketing, owning funnel, attribution, ROI, account scoring, experimentation, and pipeline analytics. Builds scalable datasets, dashboards, and quality controls while connecting customer, campaign, product usage, CRM, and revenue data. Delivers executive-ready reporting, QBR insights, and recommendations that improve conversion, marketing investment effectiveness, account-based marketing, product adoption, and pipeline growth.

Investigate offline and direct mail channel performance, attribution, vendor data, and measurement methodologies. Build response, lift, allocation, and regression models; manage direct mail testing data pulls and mail merges; create KPI dashboards; and communicate actionable recommendations to marketing stakeholders. The role requires proactively identifying opportunities, validating data and vendor claims, and translating complex analytical findings into business decisions.

Design and lead scalable data engineering solutions across Databricks and Microsoft Azure. Define enterprise data modeling standards, architect pipelines and integrations, establish engineering best practices, troubleshoot complex platform issues, and guide modernization and cloud migration initiatives. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while ensuring data platforms meet security, quality, governance, reliability, performance, and maintainability standards.

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines, ETL infrastructure, data warehouses, and analytics tools. The role assembles complex datasets, automates processes, optimizes data delivery architecture, and supports cross-functional data initiatives. Collaborates with executive, product, data, and design stakeholders to resolve technical issues and improve analytics systems. Requires proficiency in SAS, Python, Java, MATLAB, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Presto, UNIX, and Linux, with JavaScript, R, and basic machine learning preferred.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines, web-scraping systems, and data-collection tools for AI datasets. Maintain analytical databases, optimize queries, troubleshoot pipeline and data-quality issues, manage containerized workloads across Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure, and support CI/CD workflows. The role also involves documenting technical processes, researching improvements, and developing scalable APIs in a fully remote environment.

Design and maintain scalable dbt data models and ELT pipelines in Snowflake. Architect data foundations to power AI and LLM-enabled workflows, operationalize core SaaS metrics, and build reusable data assets for analytics and activation. Partner cross-functionally to embed analytics into workflows and ensure scalable, secure architecture.

Design and maintain scalable dbt data models and ELT pipelines in Snowflake; architect reusable data assets, governance, and SaaS metrics; build AI-enabled data foundations and LLM workflows; integrate analytics into operational tools and partner cross-functionally to productionize AI-driven use cases.