Location: WASHINGTON, DC, United States
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Data Scientist
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Description

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking to acquire highly qualified cross-functional Data Scientists and developers. The Transformation Data Science Services (TDSS) II team will be part of an ecosystem, participating with federal employees, and other contractors, in a team-based Development and Operations (DevOps) approach to deliver business value (the performance measurements, Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) are established in Operational Requirements Document (ORD)) frequently, cost-effectively, responsively, and with high quality.

The TDSS II teams shall provide Data Analytics Services within the DevOps framework; perform analysis of the USCIS Electronic Immigration System (USCIS ELIS) and related data for forecasting and system growth analysis. This analysis is intended to support data-driven decision-making, as well as development of automated dashboards and tools, which provide analytic insight to ELIS program.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Utilize the ELIS roadmap to conduct an exploratory statistical analysis for each ELIS line of business.
• Conduct ELIS data analysis to measure efficiency and effectiveness of new ELIS functionality.
• Apply an analytics-driven approach, including machine learning, to surface unusual patterns or behaviors during case processing.
• Define sensible metrics to build descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models.
• Extract, transform and load (ETL) structured and unstructured data into Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.
• Perform analytics in Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.
• Store methods that are employed for the Statistical Data Analysis and Reporting along with each analysis in GitHub.
• Develop and sustain Program Dashboard with Tableau and open source tools.
• Comply with ELIS DevOps development, testing, and standard operational procedures (SOP).
• Collaborate with other vendors, stakeholders, and government employees to collect data needed to aid decision-making.
• Maintain good configuration and data management methods.
• Use DHS USCIS approved methods and tools.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors with 9+ years of experience in data science or a related field (computer science, statistics, operations research, economics, mathematics, physics, engineering), or Masters with 7+ years, or PhD with 4+ years of experience.
• 9+ years of relevant experience manipulating data from disparate data sources, building machine learning and deep learning models.
• Excellent analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting ability.
• Experience with the data science lifecycle, and the Agile methodology.
• Experience applying data science techniques, including machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling and/or data visualization to solve challenging business problems.
• Experience in one or more programming languages (Python, R, Java, Scala, SAS, JavaScript) and Linux scripting.
• Experience with model development and deployment in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
• Strong technical documentation and presentation skills.
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Experience in Databricks products, or extensive experience in Apache Spark.
• Experience in BI and open-source data visualization tools to create and enhance interactive dashboards.
• Experience providing potential technical solutions to meet business needs and supporting analysis of alternatives for best fit.
• Experience in providing research on emerging technologies to support proof-of-concept (POC) capabilities and identify future solutions for the organization.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able obtain and maintain Public Trust

Overview

Our customer is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation s most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. They are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, our customer has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability