Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, production-grade dbt models, BigQuery schemas, Fivetran integrations, and Looker semantic layers. Partner with clinical, operations, finance, and growth teams to translate business questions into analytics projects focused on acquisition, attribution, conversion, and funnel performance. Establish data quality, governance, documentation, testing, and version-control practices while mentoring analysts and supporting secure, compliant data use.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and roadmap for the company’s data platform. Design reliable large-scale pipelines, establish standards for modeling, testing, observability, and orchestration, and mentor data engineers. Partner with engineering, product, analytics, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure investments. Lead incident root-cause analysis, evaluate data technologies, and support scalable analytics, machine learning, and real-time processing capabilities.

Analyzes complex business processes, data requirements, and information systems supporting the Defense Logistics Agency. Applies DoD Business Enterprise Architecture, data modeling, enterprise architecture, systems integration, and process analysis expertise to improve data quality, interoperability, modernization, and enterprise decision-making. This fully remote role requires Secret clearance and supports AMPS program initiatives.

Own end-to-end data engineering for a business domain, including API and other-source ingestion, dbt models, orchestration, data-quality testing, monitoring, documentation, and performance. Build reliable, AI-ready single sources of truth and ensure data freshness, accuracy, traceability, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and the Director of Data, establish engineering patterns, review work, and mentor other engineers.

Own healthcare analytics data methodology, including episode grouping, provider attribution, cost standardization, quality measures, reference data, pipelines, QA, and production delivery. Translate feature requests into specifications and validated analytics. Reconcile results, establish recurring data-quality coverage, investigate failures, and collaborate with engineering, data science, product, clinical informatics, and customer teams. Advanced SQL and healthcare claims expertise are central to ensuring accurate, defensible customer metrics.

Own analytics for Customer Success and Operations by translating ambiguous business questions into metrics, reports, dashboards, and PRDs. Partner with senior leaders, CSMs, Analytics Engineers, and Operations teams to improve retention, permit turnaround, and organizational scalability. Build self-service dashboards, develop dbt models, document analytics assets, prioritize high-impact requests, and use LLM tools to accelerate SQL, reporting, and data-model development.

Build and maintain Snowflake and dbt data platforms, including ELT pipelines, tested models, orchestration, monitoring, documentation, access controls, and governance. Optimize performance and costs while ensuring reliable, discoverable data for internal dashboards, client products, and AI/ML use cases. Translate ambiguous stakeholder needs into durable solutions and apply strong software engineering practices, including Git, CI/CD, code review, Python, testing, and alerting.

Establish and operationalize Finance data governance across Finance and Technology. Define governance models, business glossaries, data inventories, lineage, quality controls, master-data standards, hierarchies, and reconciliation processes. Support SAP, Snowflake, reporting, planning, and analytics data products; facilitate stakeholder workshops; document requirements; manage governance backlogs; and coach data owners and stewards in an ambiguous enterprise environment.

Build and maintain a regulatory reporting data platform using SQL and dbt, including models, automated validations, data pipelines, and testing. Investigate data issues end to end, validate submissions, support audits and legal data requests, monitor upstream changes, collaborate with product, engineering, compliance, and leadership, and participate in on-call coverage. WOOF WOOF

Administer and optimize production and non-production databases for a large-scale VA data migration. Responsibilities include installation, patching, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, AWS database provisioning, data conversion, validation, troubleshooting, high availability, disaster recovery, and technical documentation. The role collaborates with developers and analysts across on-premises and AWS environments while ensuring database availability, integrity, and security.