Data Scientist

McLean, VA.

The Contractor shall work closely with a team consisting of an IT PM, Software Developer, Data Scientist as well as analysts and Sponsor Industry experts; however, the Sponsor will manage the priorities.

· The Contractor shall work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive solutions.

· The Contractor shall create and maintain data pipeline architecture.

· The Contractor shall create data tools for analytics and the team that assist in building and optimizing vendor vetting solution.

· The Contractor shall assemble data sets that meet functional and non-functional requirements.

· The Contractor shall identify, design, and implement process improvements to automate manual processes, optimize data delivery, and design infrastructure for scalability.

· The Contractor shall build the infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.

· The Contractor shall build analytic tools that use the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into the customer’s vendor vetting system.

· The Contractor shall work with the Sponsor to assess the datasets that align with the customer’s requirements.

· The Contractor shall work with stakeholders and the team to assist with data-related technical issues and support the data infrastructure requirements.

· The Contractor shall assess vendor vetting system requirements in consultation with relevant stakeholders.

· The Contractor shall provide Weekly Status Reports.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

· Demonstrated experience with Linux, Unix, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

· Demonstrated experience with building and optimizing big ‘data’ data pipelines, architectures, and datasets.

· Demonstrated experience with building, testing, and maintaining database pipeline architectures.

· Demonstrated experience with build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.

· Demonstrated experience with manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.

· Demonstrated experience with data warehousing solutions.

· Demonstrated experience in developing data validation methods and data analysis tools.

· Demonstrated experience with compliance, data governance, and security policies.

· Demonstrated experience with working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to include data parsing, transformation, schema analysis, and query/analysis.

· Demonstrated experience with SQL and working with relational databases.

· Demonstrated experience using Python, JavaScript for web/html development.

· Demonstrated experience using big data tools.

· Demonstrated experience with program management framework.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

· Demonstrated experience working on Amazon Web Services environments or other cloud service providers (CSP) environments.

· Demonstrated experience building, instrumenting, and monitoring analytic pipelines.

· Demonstrated experience using Python to deliver operational ML capabilities.

· Demonstrated experience with distributed data and data computing tools.

· Demonstrated experience with the Amazon Web Services infrastructure or other cloud service providers (CSP) infrastructure.

· Demonstrated experience with the data science capabilities native to Amazon Web Services or other cloud service providers (CSP).

· Demonstrated experience working with Linux command line (bash).

· Bachelor or Master’ Degree in an IT discipline

· Certifications:

o Cloudera Certified Professional (CCP) Data Engineer

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.