Senior Data Scientist - Military veterans preferred

Job Title: Senior Data Scientist

Workplace: Hybrid (preference for candidates located in the National Capital Region - DMV)

Clearance Required: a TS or CBP BI or DHS Suitability clearance adjudicated within the past 4 years

Position Overview:

Conducts quantitative analysis using ops research tools, economics, and other quantitative techniques in the areas of procedural implementations and performance issues. Creates analysis procedures. Assists in the definition of machine learning and data mining strategies. Creates, deploys, maintains, and refines decision management models. Specialist in modeling and simulation functions or operations such as, exercises, plans, coordination, demonstrations, and instruction in the fields such as, environmental, transportation, law enforcement, and security for military and civilian agencies.

Requirements:

• Nine (9) years of relevant experience in applied research, big data analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, computer science, operations research or other closely related other quantitative or mathematical discipline.

• Bachelors in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research or other closely related other quantitative or mathematical discipline. A PhD degree may be substituted for up to three (3) years of relevant experience.

• Three (3) years specialized experience. Specialized experience must include a combination of office and field experience in performing modeling and conducting
  analysis in a law enforcement environment.

• Conduct exploratory data analysis via acquiring, cleaning, and exploiting relevant information from across agency databases in order to detect possible corruption and criminal activity

• Develop queries, including in Structured Query Language (SQL), as needed to access data stored in separate databases

• Apply data science techniques (e.g. machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical modeling)

• Assist in leveraging and enhancing existing ontologies for government use cases

• Manipulate large data sets and use them to identify trends and reach meaningful conclusions to inform strategic decisions

• Measure, improve results, and make adjustments based on feedback, assist with the development of repeatable processes based on proven results

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Expertise using Qlik to embed visualizations into webpages

• Familiarity with Databricks or similar cloud-based distributed database technologies

• Familiarity with PySpark and Python

• Comfortable developing complex SQL queries to extract, transform, and load data

• Experience with analytic techniques such as Anomaly detection, Clustering, and Time-series (e.g., ARIMA)

• Experience implementing NLP concepts including preprocessing (stemming, etc.), TF-IDF, Named Entity Recognition, and LLMs.

Why apply to this position at Elder Research?

1. Competitive Salary and Benefits

2. Important Work / Make a Difference

3. Job Stability: Elder Research is not a typical government contractor, we hire you for a career not just a contract.

4. Remote Work: in an industry of declining remote work opportunities.

5. People-Focused Culture: we prioritize work-life-balance and provide a positive, supportive work environment as well as opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

6. Company Stock Ownership: all employees are provided with shares of the company each year based on company value and profits.

About Elder Research, Inc

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans



Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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