Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Lead data architecture for NAVSUP OIS, including database design, data modeling, warehouse strategy, ETL/ELT pipelines, migration, security, retention, backup, recovery, and performance optimization. Coordinate cloud and containerized environments, guide data engineers and DBAs, and support modernization from Oracle to cloud and analytical platforms. The role also provides technical leadership, architecture planning, integration, risk assessment, and policy development for mission-critical systems.

Manages and evolves enterprise data lakes and warehouses, designing scalable AWS-based batch, CDC, and near-real-time ETL/ELT pipelines. Builds data quality, governance, lineage, security, monitoring, and recovery controls; optimizes Spark, Glue, Athena, Redshift, and S3 workloads. Develops reusable Python, SQL, and PySpark frameworks, supports schema evolution and analytical data modeling, and collaborates with business and technical stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions.

Customer-facing technical leader who architects, builds, and optimizes large-scale data engineering and lakehouse solutions on Databricks. Supports pre-sales and delivery with POCs, performance/load testing, workload sizing, migrations, observability, and adoption through workshops and community engagement.

Own the Finance and Operations data layer, integrating systems into Snowflake and Omni, building reusable data models, dashboards, governed metrics, validation checks, and reconciliation workflows. Partner with Finance, Operations, and Data teams to translate business processes into trusted analytics, improve data quality, automate reporting, and support leadership decision-making.

Analyzes healthcare claims, provider, pharmacy, and enrollment data to identify trends, improve data quality, optimize workflows, reduce costs, and support business decisions. Translates business needs into requirements, develops complex SQL queries, validates data, recommends process improvements, coordinates projects, and serves as a liaison among operations, research and development, IT, and external partners. Also mentors team members and communicates technical findings to nontechnical stakeholders.

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.

Develops and manages enterprise business intelligence products, including semantic models, governed definitions, metadata, dashboards, and AI-assisted analytics capabilities. Translates complex business needs into measurable analytic solutions, advises stakeholders, supports adoption and training, and manages product lifecycle, quality, performance, and business impact. Partners with product managers and business leaders to prioritize work, manage risks, communicate value, and guide less experienced team members.

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.

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.