Data Scientist

Location: Chantilly, VA

Department: USG

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking Data Scientists with various levels of experience (Junior–Senior and SME Levels) providing Sponsor Support located in Chantilly, VA. The candidate collaborating with internal and external offices to curate and contextualize enterprise level information about Sponsor resources and activities.

• Support data acquisition process and dataset characterization; conduct data investigation and exploratory data analysis; implement models and algorithms; correlate similar data to find actionable results
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
• Integrate wide-ranging business data sets to create reliable and repeatable methodologies
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets using predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences and other business outcomes
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes
• Address complex business and intelligence questions at an enterprise level and translate complex, technical findings into an easily understood narrative
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
• Utilizing critical thinking and analytic judgements and applying programmatic, quantitative, and qualitative methods to identify patterns and relationships in disparate datasets
• Using mathematical, statistical, or other data-driven analysis to address business questions
• Interacting with customers to coordinate requirements and resolve data questions
• Providing analytical judgement and trend analysis based on research and comparisons with past products
• Obtaining structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, synthesizing it, and presenting the results effectively and concisely in written and graphic form to internal and external stakeholders

NOTE: Staffing “Multiple” positions requiring various levels of experience

NOTE: Experience with all listed below is not required, this is representative of multiple positions at various levels

Required Qualifications:

• Active Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in business Analytics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or Information System or 4 years of relevant data analysis experience within the IC or military
• Business analytics, Statistics, Data verification and validation, and Data visualization
• Applying qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods to business analytics problems
• Creating data visualization mockups, prototypes of visualizations, documenting work processes and effectively demonstrating products to technical and non-technical audiences
• Interpreting data models and working with a variety of data sources and structures
• Translating customer requirements into project or system specifications
• Visualization software (Tableau, PowerBI, or similar interactive data software)
• Transforming, manipulating, and combining data using a programming language (Python)
• Using a data preparation tool (Tableau Prep Builder)
• Self-starter with the ability to decompose ambiguous problems into actionable plans
• Working independently or as a member of a team to research, organize, and analyze information

Desired Qualifications:

• Data derived from technical missions, taskings, collection, processing, analysis, or dissemination
• Working with Sponsor business or mission data, Sponsor applications, or Sponsor database structures
• Sponsor’s data handling procedures
• Visualization tools (Jupyter, Visio, SharePoint, or Confluence)
• Using requirements tracking tools (JIRA or Confluence)
• Using Excel and SQL
• Working with version control systems (GitHub, or similar version control systems)
• Scripting languages/frameworks (HTML, SQL, Python, R, Linux (Bash) shell scripting)