Top Data Science Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Develop, validate, and deploy predictive and statistical models on large tax and financial datasets to detect fraud and non-compliance. Perform data exploration, feature engineering, and model evaluation using Python/R, SQL, and Databricks. Collaborate with government clients and cross-functional teams, deliver technical and non-technical briefings, and ensure models are explainable, defensible, and maintainable in secure government environments.

Lead Data Scientist will develop, validate, deploy, and monitor predictive ML models, design scalable data pipelines, perform advanced SQL analysis, partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into production-ready solutions, and contribute to data science best practices and governance.

Lead end-to-end data science projects: acquire and prepare messy datasets, develop and evaluate models tied to business outcomes, operationalize models at scale, run experiments, drive ethics/privacy, partner with customers and teams, and coach cross-disciplinary colleagues.

The Senior Associate Scientist will analyze and visualize data, collaborate on screening strategies, and validate hits for drug discovery using the EMMI platform.

Lead product and program analytics for Microsoft skilling experiences: design learner journey/funnel analyses, define success metrics, run experiments and causal analyses, build proficiency/competency models, shape telemetry and scalable reporting, recommend content and curriculum improvements, and mentor other data scientists to drive product decisions and learning outcomes.

Design and validate clinical and biomarker data pipelines, perform source-to-target mappings (e.g., EHR to data model), extend ontologies and vocabularies, ensure data quality, evaluate informatics tools, and support data architecture and analysis workflows for a regulatory-grade platform.

The Geospatial Scientist leads data management initiatives, oversees data governance, and ensures quality and compliance of geospatial data for DHS.

Build and maintain analytics data models, dashboards, and reports. Use SQL (Postgres, Trino, Iceberg) and dbt to power financial metrics. Perform deep-dive analyses using SQL and Python (Jupyter, Pandas) to answer business questions, operationalize data, and improve reporting and automation.

The Senior Data Scientist will design and deploy machine learning models, analyze complex datasets, develop analytical solutions, and mentor junior team members in a remote environment.

Lead development of digital twin and simulation models for warehouse operations, deploy AI-driven decision systems, build forecasting and optimization models, validate experiments linking operational metrics to financial impact, and partner with engineers, operations, and external AI/academic partners to scale innovations across fulfillment networks.

The Senior Data Scientist will analyze customer data, design experiments, build models, and support data-driven decision-making across product, marketing, and customer experience teams.

The Lead Data Scientist will enhance analytics through predictive modeling and data engineering, focusing on quality, feature generation, and continuous learning.

Develop, implement, and maintain ALM and CCAR/PPNR models for balance sheet forecasting. Build customer behavior, prepayment, and deposit models; monitor performance, perform backtesting and sensitivity analysis; collaborate with Model Risk, Market Risk, Treasury, and validation teams; prepare documentation and materials for governance and senior leadership; support balance sheet optimization and regulatory initiatives.

Lead retention and churn efforts by building survival and lifecycle-state models, classifying churn reasons, creating personalized win-back and next-best-action interventions, optimizing offers/promos, designing uplift experiments, and owning production model lifecycle, monitoring, and MLOps across Product, CRM, Marketing, and Engineering.

The Senior Data Scientist leads data-driven initiatives, optimizing analytics for business decisions, mentoring staff, and ensuring data quality across healthcare projects.

The Principal Data Scientist will design, develop, and deploy machine learning models, innovating methodologies and collaborating across teams to enhance financial decision-making and risk management.

As a Data Scientist at Sardine, you'll design and deploy data-driven solutions to prevent fraud, collaborating with clients and engineering teams to build and optimize machine learning models.

Lead development of foundational marketing ML models (customer intent, next-best-action, marketing mix and attribution). Own model selection, explainability, monitoring, decisioning layers, and translate outputs into actionable recommendations for marketing and product stakeholders while providing technical leadership.

Lead development of Vanta's business analytics function: build scalable product data assets, define measurement frameworks, use AI-assisted analytics, partner with cross-functional teams, and deliver executive-level recommendations to drive product and business decisions.

Design, evaluate, and productionize generative AI/ML solutions (RAG, agents, embeddings, retrieval). Build evaluation frameworks for hallucination detection, benchmark LLMs, optimize prompts/models, create datasets, fine-tune models, and collaborate to deploy and monitor enterprise-scale GenAI systems.

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.

Lead cross-functional teams to identify and implement revenue-driving strategies. Own revenue optimization, develop quantitative analyses (A/B testing, causal impact), improve data pipelines and tracking, embed AI into workflows, and present insights to leadership to scale and recover revenue.

Design and evaluate predictive and generative models, extract insights from disparate clinical and product data, build and partner on data pipelines, run rigorous evaluations and experiments, and deliver time-sensitive ad hoc analyses to product, engineering, and clinical stakeholders.

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll build and deploy ML models for risk and fraud detection, leading technical efforts and collaborating cross-functionally.

Hands-on senior data scientist splitting work between SQL Server data engineering (ETL, pipeline modernization, data quality) and analytics delivery (Power BI semantic models, dashboards, statistical and predictive modeling). Duties include designing migration options, implementing Python-based cleansing and reproducible analytics, building ETL/deployment processes, responding to ad hoc leadership data requests, and documenting systems for stakeholders. Must obtain VA background/PIV and be a U.S. citizen.