Senior Data Scientist

Overview

MUST BE A US CITIZEN

CLEARANCE LEVEL: TOP SECRET/SCI

POLYGRAPH TYPE: FULL SCOPE

100% ONSITE - WASHINGTON, DC NCR

SALARY IS DEPENDENT UPON THE CANDIDATE’S SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Soft Tech offers competitive BENEFITS in the areas of: MEDICAL, DENTAL, VISION, 401K, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, AND PAID HOLIDAYS

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a Senior Data Scientist for one of our clients. The Senior Data Scientist will join a collaborative team environment where they will provide support toward the successful delivery of the project deliverables. Key to the success of this position is the effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status.

Responsibilities

• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.

• Plans and leads major technology assignments.

• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.

• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.

• May supervise others.

• Collaborate with non- technical, national security investigators and analysts to understand their data science needs, suggest solutions, and complete the work in a timely manner.

• Lead and/or design machine learning (ML), statistical analysis, and data analysis tasks.

• Leverage existing and/or conduct custom Extract Transform Load (ETL) work to aggregate data from multiple repositories and condition the data to provide novel insights.

• Interpret data, identify features and model variables, assess the quality of model outputs, generate alternatives, and conduct remediation.

• Find and design new approaches to handling, analyzing, and using large volumes of data and/or data sets, and explore fundamental issues with data handling, search, and retention.

• Design new software code to improve data search processes, and design, test, and validate the quality of data and data processes.

• Automate routine workflows and data analysis steps to assist with workflow automation.

• Report results of analyses and provide actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

Experience (in place of Education)

• Eight (8) years of relevant experience with a BS in Data Science, Mathematics, Information Science, Statistics, Engineering, Business Analytics, or related degree; OR

• Four (4) years of relevant experience with an MS degree in Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related degree.

Required Experience (years of experience/certification(s)/specialized experience) 

• Demonstrate high level of proficiency in all functional responsibilities and expert knowledge of data science and/or data analytics with:[Required] High proficiency in Python.

About Us

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support. Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.