Lead Data Analyst
St. Louis, MO · HybridJob$124–140K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Bayer seeks a Lead Data Analyst in St. Louis to lead agricultural data analytics and research projects, develop agronomic insights, and improve workflows. The role provides technical leadership for data architecture, models, pipelines, statistical analysis, and business intelligence tools, while advising global teams and mentoring junior colleagues. Telecommuting is permitted from a home office within reasonable commuting distance up to three days per week, with up to 5% U.S. travel.
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Full job description
At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where "Health for all, Hunger for none" is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there. We give people the ownership to shape outcomes, the support to grow through new skills and experiences, and a global community where different perspectives are valued. If you want your work to count and the room to become your best, you'll find it here.
Lead Data Analyst
Lead Data Analyst for St Louis, MO to lead data analytics tasks by defining, prioritizing & setting timelines to deliver agricultural data insights and analytic requests and research projects; define research problems & develop strategic planning for agronomic data analytics projects; understand customer pain points & implement ways to improve workflows; serve as technical lead for architectural decisions; lead the building & implementation of operational models, data pipelines, statistical analyses and business intelligence tools to derive insights from user behavior data and improve business performance; advise global teams on data processes & systems; mentor junior team members on data, analytics and visualization. Requires Master’s in C.S., Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or closely-related quantitative field & 3 yrs experience in an agricultural, geospatial and/or biotechnology environment: conducting data manipulations and analysis of geospatial and/or agronomic datasets; using SQL, PySpark, BigQuery & source APIs to evaluate agronomic, plant biotech and/or geospatial data; conducting exploratory & statistical data analysis to evaluate data trends using Python, including Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib and Seaborn; applying statistical libraries including Scikit-learn, Tensorflow and Keras to geospatial and/or agronomic data; analyzing agronomic and/or geospatial datasets using WKT, Shape and GeoJSON; performing geospatial data manipulation & visualization; developing Tableau, PowerBI and Streamlit dashboards & user interfaces to track customer and internal model delivery among cross-functional product teams; creating & managing continuous integration and deployment of automated data pipelines to develop datasets for operational model ingestion; using Docker, Airflow, S3 and GCS storage to build and support automation workflows ; using Gitlab to store & distribute codebase; building & deploying CI/CD pipelines to automate, build, test and deploy Conda and Poetry packages; and designing experiments & applying data quality checks to identify limitations in data. Will also accept Bachelor’s in said fields & 5 yrs progressive post-Bachelor’s stated experience. Telecommuting permitted from home office location within reasonable commuting distance of St. Louis, MO up to 3 days per week. Up to 5% U.S. travel req’d. Salary Range: Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $124,000.00 to $140,000.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. The offered salary may vary within this range based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. Mail resume to Jill Martin, Bayer CropScience LLC, 800 North Lindbergh Blvd., E2NE, St. Louis, MO 63167 or email resume to [email protected] . Include reference code below with resume.
YOUR APPLICATION
Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Health for all, Hunger for none, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
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Location: United States : Missouri : St. Louis
Division: Enabling Functions
Reference Code: 887732
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Email: [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 5,588 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$124–140K/yr
- Missouri median$80–127K/yr46 salary ranges
- US median$88–131K/yr3,482 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $132K, is 28% above the Missouri median midpoint ($103K) — in the top quarter of Data Analyst salary ranges in Missouri.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 68 open Data Analyst jobs in Missouri and 5,588 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Missouri
- Highmark Health6 open
- Deloitte5 open
- Accenture3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (4,265 postings).
- Education
- 2,322 of the 5,588 open Data Analyst jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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