Data Analyst / CDP Developer

We are looking for a Data Analyst / CDP Developer to join a great organization in Southern California. This Long-term Contract position focuses on transforming customer data into reliable insights, strengthening platform performance, and supporting data-driven decisions across cross-functional teams. The role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical thinking with hands-on development skills in SQL, Python, and cloud-based data environments. You will work onsite four days per week while partnering with technical and business stakeholders to improve data quality, workflow stability, and reporting accuracy.

Responsibilities:

• Examine customer event data and other high-volume datasets to uncover trends, confirm data integrity, and support informed business decisions.

• Develop, refine, and maintain complex queries across distributed data platforms such as Presto, Hive, and NoSQL environments.

• Use Python to streamline data processing, automate recurring tasks, and support platform integrations and operational workflows.

• Partner with engineering, analytics, marketing, and subject matter experts to gather requirements, validate outputs, and align solutions with business needs.

• Monitor and manage scheduled pipelines and workflow orchestration processes, resolving failures and improving overall job reliability.

• Perform investigative analysis to identify anomalies, test assumptions, and troubleshoot issues affecting data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.

• Strengthen data quality practices by implementing validation checks, alerts, and monitoring approaches that improve observability in production environments.

• Create clear documentation for data logic, business rules, workflows, issue resolution, and preventive actions using Confluence or similar tools.

• Apply version control and CI/CD standards to data scripts and related assets while helping maintain consistent development best practices.

• Ensure data handling activities follow privacy, compliance, and governance expectations when working with customer-level and production information.

Requirements * Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Advanced experience writing and optimizing SQL for large-scale data analysis across modern data platforms.

• Strong Python skills for automation, data processing, and workflow support.

• Hands-on experience with cloud technologies and an understanding of data architecture principles in cloud environments.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot pipeline issues, investigate root causes, and support stable production operations.

• Experience with workflow orchestration, monitoring tools, and maintaining data process documentation.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• High attention to detail when working with sensitive customer data, data quality controls, and compliance-focused processes.

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