Data Scientist
Washington, DC

Job Description

Job Description

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

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