About The Position
The Senior Data Scientist will support the Safeguards risk-based review selection process. This role will maintain and enhance risk models, health score calculations, data fields, scripts, macros, dashboards, and analytics used to identify the most at-risk agency partners and support review prioritization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, mathematics, engineering, finance, economics, data science, or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience using scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract or extrapolate insights from structured and unstructured data.
- Demonstrated experience applying data insights across application domains.
- Demonstrated experience using automation and scripting techniques.
- Demonstrated experience presenting results to management and non-technical personnel.
- Specialized experience with Tableau, R programming, Python 3, and VBA.
- Ability to complete IRS suitability / staff-like access requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with risk models, scoring models, health scoring, compliance analytics, or audit analytics.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity, GRC, FISMA, NIST, or federal compliance programs.
- Experience building dashboards for executive or government stakeholder decision-making.
- Experience validating automated outputs against manual review or SME judgment.
- Experience with Excel macros, data quality controls, and traceability of formulas.
Responsibilities
- Build enhancements and maintain risk models supporting review selection.
- Maintain data fields, code, scripts, formulas, and macros used to analyze review findings and risk model outputs.
- Support Health Score calculations and weighted risk factor evaluations.
- Aggregate and evaluate data to identify at-risk agency partners.
- Manually validate automated risk rankings and data outputs.
- Develop and maintain risk dashboards showing findings, risk levels, rankings, remediation status, and historical trends.
- Prepare materials for quarterly risk team meetings and support action-item tracking.
- Present analytic results to management and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Great benefits package
- Excellent training and career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedules
- Generous compensation package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
