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Each day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace. The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of business intelligence support service to promote efficient trade and travel. Further, effective intelligence support and big data solutions help CBP ensure the movement of people, capital, and products is legal, safe, and secure.
In response to this challenge, ManTech, as a trusted mission partner of CBP, seeks a capable, qualified, and versatile Senior Data Scientist to help lead the development and delivery of high-quality predictive modelling solutions. Senior Data Scientists on our team serve as recognized subject matter experts in the application of quantitative methods, machine learning algorithms, and predictive models to address complex national and homeland security challenges. They help our team to leverage large structured and unstructured datasets to develop and operationalize models, tools, and applications that drive optimized decision making. Project tasks include data collection, mining, data and text analytics, clustering analysis, pattern recognition and extraction, automated classification and categorization, and entity resolution to implement and enhance automated risk assessment. The products we develop provide actionable insight with real and immediate impact on the safety and security of the United States, its citizens, visitors, and economy.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling involving the creation of intervention hypotheses and experiments, assessment of data needs and available sources, determination of optimal analytical approaches, performance of exploratory data analysis, and feature generation (e.g., identification, derivation, and aggregation)
- Demonstrate proficiency in extracting, cleaning, and transforming CBP transactional and mission data associated within an identified problem space to build predictive models as well as develop appropriate supporting documentation
- Leverage knowledge of a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques and methods to define and develop programming algorithms; train, evaluate, and deploy predictive analytics models that directly inform mission decisions
- Execute projects including those intended to identify patterns and/or anomalies in large datasets; perform automated text/data classification and categorization as well as entity recognition, resolution and extraction; and named entity matching
Required Qualifications
- Experience performing the full lifecycle of machine learning model development activities; including data engineering, feature development, validation and implementation/assessment
- Experience applying advanced analytics solutions to solve complex business problems
- Experience with programming languages including: R, Python, Scala, Java
- Proficiency with relational databases, using SQL/PLSQL or similar to extract, transform and load data in support of EDA and model development
- Proficiency with statistical software packages including: SAS, SPSS Modeler, R, WEKA, or equivalent
- Experience with unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques and methods
- Experience working with large-scale (e.g., terabyte and petabyte) unstructured and structured data sets and databases
- Experience performing data mining, analysis, and training set construction
- Bachelor’s Degree (required) or Master’s Degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science/engineering, or other related technical fields with equivalent practical experience
Desired Skills:
- Proficiency with Unsupervised Machine Learning methods including Cluster Analysis (e.g., K-means, K-nearest Neighbor, Hierarchical, Deep Belief Networks, Principal Component Analysis), Segmentation, etc.
- Proficiency with Supervised Machine Learning methods including Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Random/Rotation Forests, Categorization/Classification, Neural Nets, Bayesian Networks, etc.
- Experience with pattern recognition and extraction, automated classification, categorization, and entity resolution (e.g., record linking, named-entity matching, deduplication/ disambiguation).
- Experience with visualization tools and techniques (e.g., Periscope, Business Objects, D3, ggplot, Tableau, SAS Visual Analytics, PowerBI)
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, HIVE, HDFS, HBase, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, Sqoop)
- Experience conducting intelligence analysis supporting law enforcement missions
- Active Top Secret Clearance
Clearance:
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) suitability.
Physical Requirements:
The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
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