Top Data & Analytics Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, dashboards, and predictive models. Analyze large datasets to generate actionable insights, collaborate with stakeholders, ensure data quality and governance, and document/share analytics best practices to support Marketing, Product, Operations, and Workforce teams.

Develop and maintain ETL solutions, optimize processes, validate data, and support production issues. Collaborate with analysts for efficient data integration.

Lead architecture and execution of Faire's data platform and analytics capabilities. Build and operate scalable, secure ETL/ELT, streaming, storage, compute, orchestration, and data warehousing at petabyte scale. Drive performance, cost, monitoring, governance, and self-serve analytics; influence cross-functional teams and mentor engineers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data platform architecture. Build programmatic pipelines (primarily Python), optimize analytical data models (SQL), integrate sources into Snowflake, use orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster), improve data quality/observability, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

Lead a small analytics team (staff data scientist + two analysts) to deliver curriculum, product, and program insights. Split time between people management (60-70%) and hands-on analysis (30-40%), advance experimentation and measurement, build AI/LLM-driven agentic workflows, manage sprints and cross-functional stakeholder relationships, and drive analytics that inform curriculum, product, and intervention strategies.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations across AWS, Azure, and BigQuery. Normalize, aggregate, and ensure data quality for large web and transactional datasets, leveraging APIs, ETL/orchestration tools, and big-data technologies to support analytics and BI in an e-commerce environment.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines for healthcare claims; implement de-identification and PII-reduction; ensure data quality and observability; integrate data stores and APIs; draft technical designs and documentation; gather product feedback and iterate quickly.

Lead design of end-to-end analytics and data solutions, produce architecture diagrams and technical designs, guide delivery teams, run client discovery and requirements sessions, support pre-sales and proposals, build reusable frameworks, and manage and mentor a delivery team to ensure quality and alignment to architecture.

Design, build, and operate secure, compliant data platforms and pipelines across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government. Lead cloud migrations, implement DataOps CI/CD, manage Microsoft Fabric platform, ensure data quality and governance (NIST 800-171/DFARS/ITAR), and provide Tier 3 support for analytics workloads. Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable lakehouse/warehouse architectures, automate infrastructure with IaC, and maintain compliance and incident runbooks.

Extract, transform, and load data from clients' legacy databases into CentralSquare systems. Write and tune SQL/ETL processes, present and validate converted data with clients, assist testing and go-live conversions, document processes, estimate project scope, and seek guidance from leadership when needed.