Top Remote Senior Level Data & Analytics Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads the enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, governance, and evolution. Manages a central data team and enables federated self-service analytics across business functions. Builds AI-ready data pipelines, RAG and Graph RAG architectures, custom data applications, observability, cost optimization, and AIOps capabilities. Requires hands-on expertise with Snowflake, dbt, modern ETL, Python, SQL, CI/CD, and Data Mesh architectures, along with 5+ years leading technical data teams.

Build and maintain Engine X performance dashboards, reporting frameworks, data models, and complex SQL analyses using Snowflake. Track card, booking, rewards, spending, and retention metrics; investigate anomalies; support A/B tests; document metric definitions; and communicate findings to product, finance, and leadership. Collaborate with analytics and data engineering teams to validate pipelines and improve data quality.

Own actuarial models and client-facing reporting measuring cost savings, outcomes, and performance of healthcare prior authorization programs. Analyze authorization and claims data, conduct impact evaluations, reconcile projected and realized results, investigate trends, and present executive-level insights to customers and leadership. Partner with clinical, customer success, data, and actuarial teams while maintaining reproducible, auditable methodology and documentation.

Build and support scalable data platforms and pipelines, leading migrations such as Snowflake to BigQuery and transitioning reporting to Looker. Responsibilities include data architecture, ETL/ELT, API and marketing integrations, data quality, production troubleshooting, warehousing, performance optimization, and platform modernization. The role partners with analytics and business teams, owns projects through production, documents solutions, and provides technical guidance.

Analyze and transform cloud data using SQL, dbt, and Google Cloud; build automated pipelines, data visualizations, validation checks, unit tests, monitoring, and alerts. Partner with engineering teams and enterprise insurance clients to improve data quality, governance, automation, and decision-making. Communicate insights clearly, document technical work, develop insurance domain expertise, and contribute to collaborative reviews and on-call support.

Build scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Build AI-augmented BI dashboards, semantic layers, and AI-ready metadata. Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate SQL and dashboard development, productionize ML outputs into BI, enforce data quality and governance, and present insights to business stakeholders including C-suite.

Own the company’s metric registry and canonical definitions, resolve conflicting metrics, enforce definitions in semantic and catalog systems, and retire redundant reporting assets. Build data quality checks, route failures to accountable owners, and evaluate AI agents against ground truth. Enable trustworthy self-service analytics through governed data. The role requires strong SQL, production ownership of a semantic or metrics layer, data catalog or lineage experience, clear documentation, and cross-functional decision-making.

Own end-to-end data products, including source onboarding, API and file-feed ingestion, orchestration, incremental and idempotent pipelines, Snowflake and dbt Cloud modeling, testing, documentation, alerting, and production reliability. Establish engineering standards, manage secrets and governance, use AI coding tools responsibly, collaborate with vendors and stakeholders, and mentor junior engineers.