Data Scientist (US Citizenship REQUIRED)

i3 • Washington, DC

14h • Remote

About The Position

i3, LLC is seeking a Data Scientist to support the Offices of Inspectors General (OIG) and the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s Pandemic Response Center of Excellence (PACE). PACE provides data analysis and visualization, shares leading practices, provides tools and services, and supplies investigative intelligence.

The Data Scientist will lead projects developing business intelligence solutions involving data mining, data analytics, and predictive analysis across large volumes of data from disparate systems and databases. The role identifies trends, relationships, patterns, and anomalies, then interprets and communicates actionable information for audits and investigations through oral briefings, written reports, and visualizations such as graphs, charts, and interactive maps.

The work is remote. Candidates must reside in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, or Alabama, and must be U.S. citizens. An active Secret clearance is highly desirable. Recent experience with Databricks, PySpark, and Unity Catalog is important, including training, evaluating, and deploying machine-learning models using Databricks and PySpark MLlib, with Unity Catalog for model management and governance.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• Must reside in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, or Alabama.
• At least five years of continuous, hands-on experience developing analytic rules and models using leading-edge fraud analytic tools and industry best practices.
• At least five years of continuous, hands-on experience in data management and advanced analytic techniques; experience must be current within the last six months.
• At least five years of continuous, hands-on experience proactively using data science to identify, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement; experience must be current within the last six months.
• At least five years of continuous experience working both in team environments and independently.
• At least two years of experience training, evaluating, and deploying machine-learning models using Databricks, PySpark MLlib, and Unity Catalog for model management and governance; this experience must be recent, within the last six months.
• Within the last 12 months, experience using at least two software packages or programming languages, in addition to Databricks, from this list: R, Python, Power BI, SQL, Tableau, or SAS.

Nice To Haves

• An active Secret clearance.
• Experience using Neo4j.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science projects to develop business intelligence solutions.
• Perform data mining, data analytics, and predictive analysis across data from disparate systems and databases.
• Identify patterns, trends, relationships, and anomalies in data and formulate and interpret results into actionable information for audits and investigations.
• Communicate findings orally and through written reports and visualizations, including graphs, charts, and interactive mapping.
• Train, evaluate, and deploy machine-learning models using Databricks and PySpark MLlib, and use Unity Catalog for model management and governance.
• Use data science to identify, detect, and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed