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Data Scientist

Chantilly, VA 20598

Posted: 02/12/2025 Industry: Government Job Number: 52126

Job Description

Kavaliro is seeking a Data Scientist to support a client in Virginia.

Job Description:
Day to day responsibilities include:
  • The Contractor shall perform end-to-end quality assurance of data feeds and data sets.
  • The Contractor shall provide support for data triage and assessment at the Sponsor’s site.
  • The Contractor shall identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems.
  • The Contractor shall attend regular stand-up meetings.
  • The Contractor shall provide input to code reviews.
  • The Contractor shall cross-train on existing collection tools.
  • The Contractor shall support building, monitoring, alerting, and reporting out (e.g. dashboards).
  • The Contractor shall support new use cases.
  • The Contractor shall research and document options for collecting or aggregating data from a variety of web based and internal Sponsor platforms.
  • The Contractor shall evaluate web based platforms’ ability to detect or deny access.
  • The Contractor shall make recommendations on approaches to acquire information.
  • The Contractor shall use appropriate tools and computer programming languages, such as Python scripts, to collect and process data from a variety of sources.
  • The Contractor shall use Sponsor-network APIs to programmatically access data.
  • The Contractor shall create, maintain, and enhance systems in support of data exploitation.
  • The Contractor shall create or improve custom collection scripts written in Python.
  • The Contractor shall create or improve scripts leveraging APIs for collection needs.
  • The Contractor shall automate data clean-up and conditioning of collected data.
  • The Contractor shall automate data management and dissemination steps.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE 
  • Demonstrated experience programming in Python.
  • Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats, including MS Excel
  • Demonstrated experience with a variety of database tools, such as SQL and Presto, and data lakes/S3 data.
  • Demonstrated experience building and demonstrating data visualization tools, and dashboards especially Elasticsearch, Kibana, Tableau, Apache Superset and PowerBI
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex, technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, or written form.
  • Demonstrated experience analyzing questions, formulating requirements, determining suitable analytic approaches, evaluating results, and communicating findings to partners and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated experience translating complex technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, written form.
  • Demonstrated openness to feedback and ability to collaborate well with colleagues to develop customer-tailored products. 

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE
  • Demonstrated experience with AI/ML such as natural language processing in a production environment
  • Demonstrated experience developing and refining statistical models,inferential statistics, and hypothesis testing.
  • Demonstrated experience with data management tools, such as Hadoop, MapReduce, or similar.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting data science using the Apache Zeppelin and Jupyter notebooks platforms and Spark/Pyspark.
  • Demonstrated experience developing MS Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting traditional and commercial targeting efforts .
  • Demonstrated experience programming in the R language
Location:
  • Chantilly, VA
  • This position is onsite and there is no remote availability.

Clearance Requirement:
  • Candidates must have an active TS/SCI security clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph

Kavaliro provides Equal Employment Opportunities to all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Kavaliro is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Kavaliro will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please respond to this posting to connect with a company representative.
 
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