[ref. x10036516] Chantilly - Data Scientist Tssci Wpoly

Data Scientist

Chantilly, VA

Day to day responsibilities include:

The Contractor shall perform end-to-end quality assurance of data feeds and data sets.

The Contractor shall provide support for data triage and assessment at the Sponsors site.

The Contractor shall identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems.

The Contractor shall attend regular stand-up meetings.

The Contractor shall provide input to code reviews.

The Contractor shall cross-train on existing collection tools.

The Contractor shall support building, monitoring, alerting, and reporting out (e.g. dashboards).

The Contractor shall support new use cases.

The Contractor shall research and document options for collecting or aggregating data from a variety of web based and internal Sponsor platforms.

The Contractor shall evaluate web based platforms ability to detect or deny access.

The Contractor shall make recommendations on approaches to acquire information.

The Contractor shall use appropriate tools and computer programming languages, such as Python scripts, to collect and process data from a variety of sources.

The Contractor shall use Sponsor-network APIs to programmatically access data.

The Contractor shall create, maintain, and enhance systems in support of data exploitation.

The Contractor shall create or improve custom collection scripts written in Python.

The Contractor shall create or improve scripts leveraging APIs for collection needs.

The Contractor shall automate data clean-up and conditioning of collected data.

The Contractor shall automate data management and dissemination steps.

Requirements

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

Demonstrated experience programming in Python.

Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats, including MS Excel

Demonstrated experience with a variety of database tools, such as SQL and Presto, and data lakes/S3 data.

Demonstrated experience building and demonstrating data visualization tools, and dashboards especially Elasticsearch, Kibana, Tableau, Apache Superset and PowerBI

Demonstrated ability to translate complex, technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, or written form.

Demonstrated experience analyzing questions, formulating requirements, determining suitable analytic approaches, evaluating results, and communicating findings to partners and stakeholders.

• Demonstrated openness to feedback and ability to collaborate well with colleagues to develop customer-tailored products.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

Demonstrated experience with AI/ML such as natural language processing in a production environment

Demonstrated experience developing and refining statistical models ,inferential statistics, and hypothesis testing.

Demonstrated experience with data management tools, such as Hadoop, MapReduce, or similar.

Demonstrated experience conducting data science using the Apache Zeppelin and Jupyter notebooks platforms and Spark/Pyspark.

Demonstrated experience developing MS Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.

• Demonstrated experience programming in the R language

Benefits

Vacation 5 weeks of accrued paid vacation per year (i.e., 8.33 hours accrued per pay period worked)

Holidays - Paid holidays published annually by the Office of Personnel Management, excluding Inauguration Day

100% paid for Health Benefits* (United Healthcare, Guardian Dental, VSP Vision, MetLife, Life and Disability Insurance and annual $1500 employer HSA contribution on qualified plans) *health benefits kick in the 1st of the month following your start date

6% 401k Contribution (3% paid out during each pay period, the additional 3% will be paid out as a lump sum in Q1 each year)

Training Reimbursement Approved training and education expenses will be reimbursed

Travel Expenses Approved travel expenses will be reimbursed *Note From time to time, the company may change employee benefits.