Top Senior Data Science Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads advanced data science and machine learning initiatives for healthcare payment integrity, including fraud, waste, and abuse detection, anomaly identification, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, dashboards, and recovery investigations. Provides technical leadership, mentors analysts, integrates production analytical solutions, collaborates with legal and business stakeholders, and presents findings to leadership. Requires healthcare expertise, advanced SQL and programming skills, and knowledge of claims, billing, reimbursement, and program integrity.

Build Boulevard’s Product Intelligence function by developing product data foundations, pipelines, dashboards, experimentation practices, and customer behavior models. Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership to deliver actionable insights, self-serve analytics, and productionized models. Establish scalable processes, instrumentation standards, statistical workflows, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Partner with clients to design healthcare data science solutions, curate multimodal clinical datasets, and conduct statistical, predictive, causal inference, real-world evidence, and AI/ML analyses. Responsibilities include querying EMR and other health data sources, creating statistical analysis plans, managing SQL and analytical programming, ensuring HIPAA-compliant data quality, documenting findings, and presenting results to technical, clinical, and executive audiences.

Build and deploy production-ready data science models, monitor model performance and drift, develop data science metrics and features, and translate analytical findings into actionable guidance. The role partners with stakeholders to frame business questions, optimize data collection, create data assets, identify gaps, and deliver insights supporting pediatric healthcare strategy and patient care.

Lead development of statistical and machine learning models for time-series, geospatial, kinematic, and radar data. Build analytic solutions, training datasets, ETL workflows, forecasting and anomaly-detection models, simulations, visualizations, and performance metrics. Integrate multi-source sensor data, enhance algorithms, document processes, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, mission partners, and stakeholders in an agile environment.

Develop scalable data pipelines, statistical models, machine learning solutions, AI agents, dashboards, and decision-support tools for incentive compensation planning. Analyze large datasets, design quota and compensation models, evaluate business outcomes, ensure governance, and communicate recommendations to Finance, Engineering, product, sales, and executive stakeholders. The role also involves coding, debugging, automation, scenario modeling, and leading cross-functional analytical initiatives.

Senior Data Scientist partnering with Wealth Management and Private Banking to drive acquisition, retention, and AUM growth. Responsibilities include developing and deploying predictive models, preparing and analyzing large datasets, measuring cross-channel marketing campaigns, standardizing KPIs, and translating findings into actionable recommendations. The role requires collaboration with business, marketing, technology, risk, and compliance stakeholders, along with clear communication of insights to nontechnical audiences.

Design and analyze rigorous messaging experiments using A/B testing and causal inference. Build measurement frameworks, data pipelines, dashboards, automated analyses, and scalable data solutions for messaging campaigns. Partner with CRM, Product, Algorithms, and Engineering teams to translate ambiguous business questions into actionable recommendations and experimentation standards. Support messaging strategy across channels, timing, content, targeting, and new business verticals.

Leads and mentors junior developers while designing, modifying, testing, and deploying data solutions in Palantir Foundry. Builds data models and reports from ERP and legacy systems, translates business requirements into technical capabilities, and supports IT modernization. Requires Python, PySpark, cloud architecture, CI/CD, database design, Army domain knowledge, and an active DoD Secret clearance.

Lead design and delivery of scalable ML systems across the full lifecycle for recommendations, demand forecasting, targeting, and personalization. Collaborate with engineers, product, and stakeholders to set architecture, metrics, and production best practices; mentor data scientists; lead experimentation and deploy/monitor models using cloud and MLOps tooling.

Consult as a fractional data scientist for hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Lead data science initiatives: build infrastructure, develop and deploy models, create portfolio dashboards, monitor post-deployment performance, and partner with investment teams to turn data into actionable investment insights. Advise on vendor selection, data quality, technology stacks, KPIs, and governance.

Lead end-to-end data science for customer-embedded, production solutions: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, run experiments, deploy operational models at scale, coach cross-disciplinary teams, and drive strategy, ethics, and privacy discussions.

Build end-to-end data science, machine learning, forecasting, time-series, and AI solutions for supply chain and manufacturing operations. Develop analytical datasets, ETL/ELT workflows, dashboards, APIs, and production models using Python, SQL, cloud platforms, and modern data technologies. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to improve inventory, demand forecasting, delivery, production planning, cost, and operational efficiency. The role owns solutions from problem definition through deployment, monitoring, adoption, and continuous improvement.

Lead end-to-end pricing experimentation and strategy for consumer and business products. Design and analyze A/B tests, build pricing models and production-grade data pipelines, partner cross-functionally, and present actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

Develop statistical and machine learning models for clinical trial enrollment, patient matching, forecasting, and trial management. Monitor model performance and bias, build scalable data pipelines using AWS services and dbt, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and privacy standards. Collaborate with ML engineering, product, and clinical research stakeholders to integrate models into practical healthcare solutions.

Drive product-led growth through rigorous analysis of onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and monetization. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to design experiments, analyze funnels and cohorts, identify behavioral signals, build metrics and dashboards, improve instrumentation, and translate uncertain or incomplete data into actionable product recommendations.

Build and deploy mechanistic, hybrid, and data-driven models for pharmaceutical CMC processes, including drug substance, drug product, packaging, labeling, technology transfer, and manufacturing. Integrate process and experimental data into FAIR data products, analytics, dashboards, and AI-enabled tools. Partner with technical teams and CDMOs to support process understanding, forecasting, risk assessment, regulatory filings, and technology-transfer decisions while owning the digital roadmap and mentoring colleagues.

Lead data science engagements with customers to acquire, clean, analyze, and model data; develop scalable operational models and evaluation methods; coach engineers on best practices; drive solution strategy, ethics, and industry thought leadership; write extensible code and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-based AI solutions.

Own revenue-focused data science from opportunity sizing through production ML. Investigate and measure product changes, build and operate batch and online ML systems for personalization, experimentation, and automation, and partner cross-functionally to integrate models into user-facing products. Establish monitoring, lineage, reproducibility, and security practices; improve data pipelines; mentor data scientists; and define ML development best practices while using AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Design and deploy optimization and machine learning models for allocating scarce parts and resources across competing programs. Responsibilities include formulating MILP and constraint optimization models, forecasting demand and supply risk, building data pipelines, validating outputs, communicating tradeoffs to stakeholders, mentoring junior data scientists, and partnering with software engineers to productionize scalable services.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives that improve student retention, engagement, enrollment, and re-engagement. Build and deploy predictive models, next-best-action logic, and production MLOps workflows using Databricks, MLflow, dbt, and Dagster. Own experimentation, monitoring, performance measurement, cross-functional implementation, vendor coordination, and executive communication. Mentor teammates and drive measurable outcomes across Product, Engineering, CX, and university partners.

Leads the data science platform and machine learning strategy, building data marts, predictive models, MLOps infrastructure, and analytics capabilities. Analyzes healthcare claims, clinical, workflow, and operational data to risk-stratify patients, assess clinical program impact, support dashboards, and improve patient and provider engagement. Collaborates with clinical, operations, finance, product, executive, and technology teams while serving as a trusted analytics expert for a business workstream.

Lead product-focused data science and machine learning initiatives, including exploratory analysis, production model development, evaluation frameworks, generative AI, graph-based machine learning, recommendation systems, and personalization. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to deliver high-impact solutions, influence strategy, and communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders. The hybrid role requires four days per week in the Greater Boston area.

Own and deliver production machine learning workstreams for utility bill extraction, forecasting, and audit/anomaly detection. Build and evaluate models, establish technical approaches for ambiguous problems, write production-grade Python, and partner with engineering on integration and monitoring. The role also involves applying LLMs and agentic workflows, automating team processes, prioritizing investments, and communicating model behavior and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end AI/ML initiatives to improve student retention, engagement, and enrollment. Architect and operate data pipelines, feature stores, and production ML systems; deploy, monitor, and automate models; run experimentation programing and measure business outcomes. Mentor team members and set technical standards across Product, Engineering, and CX.