Top Data Engineer Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable AWS data platforms, pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and orchestration systems. Uses Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, AWS services, modern lakehouse technologies, and CI/CD practices to deliver secure federal data solutions. Responsibilities include platform modernization, performance optimization, AI-enabled data integration, compliance support, technical mentoring, architecture discussions, and cross-functional Agile collaboration.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for defining data architecture strategy, building fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming infrastructure, and managing scalable lakehouse and database systems. The role processes telemetry from millions of connected devices, drives performance tuning and data quality, supports on-call operations, evaluates modern technologies, and mentors engineers. It requires strong expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data platforms, streaming systems, infrastructure as code, and enterprise-scale architecture.

Designs, builds, and maintains batch and near-real-time data pipelines and curated datasets for insurance and annuity reporting, analytics, and business operations. Translates business requirements into integration solutions using SQL and ETL tools, implements data quality and reconciliation controls, optimizes workflows, documents lineage, and supports testing, deployment, monitoring, and issue resolution. Works independently on moderately complex pipelines while escalating architectural decisions to senior engineers or data architects.

Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, implement medallion architecture, support data migrations and legacy SSRS decommissioning, develop Power BI data models, and maintain governance, security, and CI/CD practices. The role also supports migration events and modernizes data infrastructure for advanced analytics and reporting.

Designs and maintains scalable cloud data architectures, pipelines, ETL processes, data warehouses, databases, and data models. Ensures data quality, accuracy, security, availability, and consistency across sources. Develops SQL queries for analytics and reporting, and documents pipelines, schemas, architectures, and models. The role requires expertise with Python, Java, Scala, R, SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, and Snowflake.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Designs and manages scalable data pipelines, contracts, transformation layers, and analytics models. The role focuses on data governance, observability, lineage, configuration validation, and collaboration with product engineering teams. It requires processing large datasets, integrating cloud and on-premises industrial technologies, and implementing streaming and message-queuing solutions, ideally in cybersecurity or industrial environments.

Designs and maintains scalable data architecture, warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data platforms. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, integrity, governance, accessibility, reliability, and performance; supporting customer onboarding and analytics tools; contributing to architecture and engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex data issues; and participating in on-call rotations. The role collaborates with engineering, product, solutions, business intelligence, and other cross-functional teams in healthcare and social care data environments.

Owns SQL Server and Azure data warehouse health, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, security, and performance. Administers Azure infrastructure, access controls, costs, monitoring, and legacy-system decommissioning. Builds internal applications and automations using AI-assisted development, integrating business systems with trusted data platforms. Partners with BI, IT, and operations teams while applying software engineering, governance, security, and compliance practices.

Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.

Build and operate cloud data capabilities, including ingestion pipelines, transformations, data models, curated data products, and data-quality controls. Use Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python to deliver governed data for analytics, applications, automation, and AI workflows. Implement testing, CI/CD, documentation, lineage, access controls, monitoring, incident resolution, and performance optimization. Collaborate with engineering, analytics, governance, security, and business teams in an Agile, product-oriented environment with active AI-assisted development.

Leads the architecture, development, and maintenance of scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT workflows, and ML data infrastructure. Establishes standards for data quality, observability, lineage, governance, security, and modeling. Partners with data scientists, engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders; evaluates technologies, drives technical initiatives, mentors engineers, and supports production-grade APIs and machine learning pipelines.

Design and operate scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and orchestration systems for imaging, biomarker, and healthcare data. Build Databricks and distributed processing workflows, integrate DICOM data into data lakes, and implement validation, observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance. Collaborate with data science, AI, R&D, product, and data management teams to deliver secure, compliant, reliable data for analytics and machine learning.

Develop and maintain Tableau dashboards, business intelligence solutions, and reporting tools. Lead data-cleaning scripts using Databricks, SQL, and Python; support data transformation, workflow automation, and analytics use cases. Partner with clients and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions, present technical concepts, and support consulting, business development, and internal initiatives.

Own and maintain the companys data infrastructure and pipelines. Design, build, and monitor ETL/ELT workflows and data architecture; integrate SaaS sources; enforce data quality, standards, and governance; partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics-ready data and meet data availability SLAs.

Designs and operates an AWS-native lakehouse supporting analytics, reporting, visualization, and AI/ML. Builds batch and streaming ingestion pipelines using Python and PySpark, Apache Iceberg data structures, governance and metadata services, quality controls, security, observability, and CI/CD automation. Optimizes performance, scalability, reliability, and cost while collaborating with cross-functional technical teams and documenting architecture, operations, and secure configurations.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable Databricks/Delta Lake data pipelines and Kimball dimensional models using dbt. Manage governance with Unity Catalog, optimize performance and cost, operationalize ML with MLflow, and coordinate/quality-check offshore vendor engineering. Mentor engineers, uphold standards, and deliver trusted data products that power analytics, reporting, and MLOps workflows.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for foundational data engineering and analytics engineering. Owns multi-year data architecture, production pipelines, dimensional models, and trusted metrics spanning cloud costs, traffic, infrastructure, and AI usage. Designs new datasets integrating cost, utilization, performance, and reliability signals; establishes standards, coaches engineers, aligns stakeholders, and drives adoption across Infrastructure, Finance, Data Science, and Product Engineering.

Designs, develops, and maintains Databricks-based ETL pipelines, data integration solutions, data warehouses, and reporting datasets. Builds batch and streaming architectures using Python, Spark, SQL, and Delta Lake; optimizes performance and costs; migrates legacy SSIS and SQL Server processes; maintains SSRS reports; implements data quality controls; and collaborates with business and technical teams supporting analytics and AI/ML workloads.

Leads and develops the Data Engineering team while remaining hands-on with scalable pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data warehouses, integrations, and infrastructure. Establishes architecture, reliability, quality, and performance standards; guides technical strategy; improves automation and monitoring; and partners with Finance and business stakeholders to translate data needs into practical solutions.

Designs, develops, and maintains Databricks-based ETL pipelines, data lake architectures, datasets, and data warehouses supporting reporting, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Troubleshoots and optimizes Databricks and SSIS processes, maintains SSRS reports, implements data quality controls, migrates legacy systems, and collaborates with business and technical teams. The role also promotes AI-assisted development practices and documents technical procedures.

Build and operate core data infrastructure for edge and hybrid environments, including ingestion, OT/IoT integrations, real-time streaming, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, and scalable query access. The role requires production ownership, reliability practices, customer integration, and collaboration across engineering and customer-facing teams. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience with production data, streaming, or integration systems and proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Build, deploy, and operate production-grade data pipelines and data products for healthcare audiences. Design transformations, data models, and governed views using Python, SQL, Airflow, S3, Snowflake, and EMR. Implement data-quality, monitoring, and privacy-by-design controls for PHI/PII. Partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to onboard sources, support audience discovery, segmentation, activation, measurement, and troubleshoot production issues.

Designs, analyzes, documents, integrates, and migrates complex environmental datasets for AirHub business lines. Responsibilities include analyzing legacy databases, creating logical and physical data models, documenting mappings and business rules, developing migration specifications and API integrations, supporting data governance and testing, and producing technical documentation. The role also requires close collaboration with business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.