Junior Data Scientist

Key Skills

Data Analytics, Data oriented design- DoD, Data science techniques, Databricks, PySpark, Python Programming, QlikView, SPARK Programming

Job Description

Responsibilities

This data scientist will work as part of a team of experienced data scientists, data engineers, and data analysts to support advanced analytics projects for the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) of the Department of Defense. Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate the ability to frame and scale data problems to effectively analyze, visualize and find data solutions.
• Support data analysts and data engineers with the development of robust, scalable data pipelines using big data technologies such as Spark.
• Develop scalable heuristic-based and machine learning-based approaches to entity resolution across complex datasets.
• Support the deployment of the entity resolution algorithms into a production pipeline.
• Support the evaluation, maintenance, and retraining of the entity resolution algorithms in production over time.
• Identify, propose, and assist in the development of future analytics products based on the data pipeline to assist customers in gaining value from the data products.
• Assist the development of junior data scientists through technical mentoring, code review, and other assistance.
• The data scientist will need the ability to work in teams and independently.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, or other related business or quantitative discipline is required.
• Experience working with Python.
• Experience with data science methods related to data architecture, data munging, data and feature engineering, and predictive analytics.
• Superior communication skills, both oral and written
• This position requires the ability to receive a security clearance at the Secret level. You must be a US citizen.

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree or higher.
• Working knowledge of Spark or PySpark
• Experience with Databricks, Qlik, and the Advana analytics platform
• Experience with entity resolution algorithms
• Experience with deploying and maintaining models in production
• Experience scaling models and algorithms to large datasets
• Previous DOD experience.
• Previous experience working with supply chain or maintenance data or processes.
• Active DoD security clearance at the Secret or Top Secret level.