Top Senior Data & Analytics Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Manage and optimize mission-critical SQL Server databases hosted on AWS EC2 for a high-availability trading application. Responsibilities include performance tuning, database administration, HA/DR implementation, backup and recovery, security and compliance, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and 24/7 on-call support. Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and architects on database changes, production deployments, documentation, and disaster recovery testing.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Develops scalable data models, dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions that support business decisions. Partners with stakeholders to translate requirements, ensures data accuracy and usability, provides technical guidance to end users, documents architectures and processes, and communicates findings to technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires advanced Spotfire, SQL, and business intelligence experience, plus familiarity with modern data platforms and AI-assisted development tools.

Design, build, maintain, and optimize Spark and Scala ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS for terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets. Work across S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and monitoring systems, resolve production data-quality and performance issues, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, and support on-call operations. Use generative AI to improve pipeline development, monitoring, and engineering productivity.

Develop and modernize enterprise Power BI reports using PBIP, advanced DAX, certified semantic models, Live Connections, and DirectQuery. Reconcile new reports with legacy systems, validate calculations and KPIs, optimize performance, and support UAT and enterprise rollout. Collaborate with architects, engineers, analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders in Agile environments while following Git, Azure DevOps, source-control, governance, and release-management standards.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Lead enterprise data architecture across multiple SaaS products by unifying reporting platforms, data models, and analytics capabilities. Assess current systems, define target-state architecture, establish data governance and quality standards, separate analytical workloads from transactional systems, and develop phased migration roadmaps. Guide database, engineering, and BI teams on cloud platforms, integration, modeling, performance, security, and reliability. Enable trusted cross-product reporting, governed self-service analytics, and data foundations for AI and advanced analytics.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Leads audience research, advertising effectiveness, brand lift studies, and first-party audience analysis. Partners with Sales, Creative Strategy, Media Planning, and leadership to develop actionable insights, sales narratives, measurement strategies, presentations, and client recommendations. Manages research vendors, budgets, contracts, and methodologies while scaling research tools, dashboards, benchmarks, and best practices across the organization.

Lead a Salesforce data engineering team to design, deliver, and support Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations and migrations, data modeling, ETL/transformations, automation, and observability. Manage hiring, performance, and career development; partner with stakeholders; adopt AI/LLM agent tooling to automate workflows and improve data quality; reduce technical debt and document systems and processes.