Senior Data Scientist

Omm IT Solutions • Woodlawn, MD

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a 100% onsite position in Woodlawn, MD. The candidate should be local and ready to work onsite 5 days a week at the Client HQ in Woodlawn, MD. The candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance. Interviews will be scheduled quickly for early next week, with only one round of interviews. The role involves hands-on experience in Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK, spaCy, and LLMs. The candidate will be well-versed in SQL and analyzing trends and transactional data, developing automated data solutions for real-world challenges, and developing, testing, and deploying new techniques for NLP understanding. This includes scalable development and deployment of ML and Generative AI approaches (such as Large Language Models (LLMs)), training and optimizing NLP/LLM models, and creating Python-based pipelines. Experience building cloud-native solutions on AWS is also required. The role involves determining the nature of analytic problems, evaluating options, and offering recommendations for resolution, advising on methods and data needed, and collaborating with data collectors and analysts to identify and close gaps on complex monitoring problems. The position requires providing accurate, timely, complex, and sophisticated data analysis.

Requirements

• Master's and 10+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 12+ years of experience or 18+ years in lieu of a degree
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with industry experience on Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK and spaCy, data science, and AI/ML/LLM engineering.
• Overall 10+ years’ experience in IT industry
• Solid Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK and spaCy.
• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM)
• Evidence of true self-starter and operating independently.
• Fluency in Python Programming, version control and collaboration with GIT, standard Python packages (ex. Pandas, numpy, matplotlib) and ML frameworks
• Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, scikit-learn, NLTK, Azure ML (optional), Amazon Web Services EC2.
• Experience with scalable data engineering frameworks such as Apache Spark and orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, and/or experience with semantic search.
• Expert knowledge in conducting data analysis and applying advanced statistical concepts and ML methods to build, train, test, and evaluate a variety of supervised and unsupervised analytic models.
• Experience with ML model deployment and operations like DevOps, MLOps, LLMOps.
• Experience with NLP and Generative AI libraries like regular expressions (e.g., spaCy, langchain), text annotation tools and semantic frameworks.
• Ability to clean and process large amounts of real-world data.
• Experience retrieving and manipulating data from a variety of data sources included DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop and flat files.
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Experience with database management systems (e.g., PostgresSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL, etc.)
• Excellent analytical skills to identify potential risks and propose effective solutions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and proven communication in written and verbal formats to various audiences to include executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with federal or state governments IT projects.
• Industry experience preferred
• Experience with, or the ability and willingness to learn distributed processing via the Hadoop ecosystem, i.e., Spark, Impala and Hive.
• Experience working in an analytical research environment.
• Experience in parallel processing such as GPU programming with CUDA
• Experience with Mathematica
• Experience using markup languages such as LaTeX, HTML, etc.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing for anomaly detection.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy new techniques for NLP understanding
• Scalable development/deployment of ML and Generative AI approaches (such as Large Language Models (LLMs))
• Train and optimize NLP/LLM models and create Python based pipelines
• Experience building cloud native solutions on AWS
• Determine the nature of analytic problems, evaluate options, and offer recommendations for resolution.
• Advise on the methods and data needed and/or available to evaluate the (intelligence or data) problem.
• Collaborate with data collectors and analysts to identify and close gaps on complex monitoring problems.
• Provide accurate, timely, complex, and sophisticated data analysis.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior