Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Analyze marketing and media data to measure TV and streaming campaign effectiveness, validate data and assumptions, identify actionable insights, and create clear visualizations and client-ready presentations. The analyst will use Excel, BI and data platforms, SQL, and AI tools to accelerate analysis while independently validating results and explaining methodologies, KPIs, and recommendations to internal teams and clients.

Own data partner specification negotiations, data mapping, Ascend platform configuration, and internal QA across multiple implementations. Review file specifications, normalize schemas, validate test files, document data dictionaries, and route non-standard requests to Product or Customer Engineering. Coordinate with delivery and engagement teams on UAT, defects, readiness, and capacity constraints. Develop repeatable QA frameworks, implementation playbooks, procedures, and training materials while ensuring configurations meet quality standards before go-live.

Leads enterprise data strategy, governance, quality, reporting, and information systems for healthcare and PBM business units. Manages development and reporting teams, owns the data roadmap, serves as product owner, and partners with corporate and client IT teams. Oversees data platforms, AWS infrastructure, SQL databases, security assessments, compliance, issue resolution, and strategic data initiatives while promoting data-driven decision-making and standardized data practices.

Collect, clean, validate, and analyze operational data from multiple systems to support customer reporting and performance monitoring. Process SQL-based uploads, maintain accurate datasets, identify trends and anomalies, document reporting procedures, and create standardized workflows, dashboards, and tools. The role also supports process improvement and automation initiatives while collaborating with cross-functional teams and traveling to customer sites.

Design and support ETL, data migration, transformation, import, export, and validation workflows for moving legacy EHR data into athenahealth systems. Build Python and SQL utilities, define source-to-target mappings, support HL7 and FHIR interoperability, validate EHI exports, investigate data quality issues, document processes, and collaborate with product, implementation, operations, sales, and engineering teams in a remote environment.

Leads internal data analysis projects, identifies business opportunities and risks, delivers strategic insights to leadership, manages junior analysts, develops dashboards, and improves data quality across company platforms. The role requires translating quantitative findings for nontechnical audiences and applying healthcare or pharmaceutical dataset experience to strategic decision-making.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Analyze and design enterprise healthcare data solutions using Snowflake and advanced SQL. Perform data profiling, reconciliation, anomaly detection, source-to-target validation, and quality testing across claims, membership, provider, and health plan data. Support data architecture, dimensional modeling, governance, metadata, lineage, cataloging, and MDM initiatives. Prepare data for AI and advanced analytics, translate business requirements into solutions, resolve data issues with stakeholders, and communicate actionable insights while following security and HIPAA requirements.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Snowflake data pipelines and workflows. Ingest, transform, and deliver data from EHRs, claims, APIs, and CRM systems into analytics-ready structures. Optimize Snowflake performance and costs through warehouse sizing, query tuning, data modeling, and security design. Implement orchestration, DevOps, version control, and CI/CD practices while collaborating with client architects and analysts. The role also involves explaining technical tradeoffs, supporting repeatable deployments, adapting to unfamiliar challenges, and mentoring others.

Lead data analysis for product and customer decision-making by defining metrics, measuring adoption, engagement, retention, and customer health, and translating complex data into actionable insights. Partner with product, engineering, customer success, and sales teams; automate and improve data processes; support product strategy and customer reviews; strengthen data governance; and mentor analysts.