Data Scientist – TS/SCI Required

Overview

LMI is seeking a Data Scientist to support our Intelligence Community client.

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers’ unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing advanced data analytics and predictive strategic workforce planning via on-demand, intuitive web-based capabilities and reporting.

• Collaborate with an integrated team of data scientists, data analysts, and HR functional SMEs to understand business processes, develop analytical requirements, identify key data elements, adhere to data protection guidelines, and interpret and communicate analytic results
• Understand and analyze complex and organization-specific datasets.
• Define and develop techniques to integrate, consolidate, and structure data for analytical use. 
• Support the maturation of data quality
• Support the transformation of businesses process through automation
• Build models using ML, rule-based, or traditional statistical methods.
• Transform data and analysis into informative visualizations and interactive dashboards using open-source and commercially available visualization and dashboard tools
• Provide regular detailed reporting to management and customers 
• Advise on the interpretation and use of data analysis products, dashboards, and reports to non-technical customers

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, economics, data analytics, or other related business or quantitative discipline
• 5+ years experience in data or business analytics 
• Experience working with programming languages like SQL, Python, or R 
• Experience developing dashboards using Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, RShiny, plotly, and d3.js
• Experience with data science methods related to data architecture, data munging, data and feature engineering, and predictive analytics.
• Self-starter with the vision to independently identify opportunities for improvement through data analytics. 
• A true team player who maintains a positive attitude in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral
• Proven ability to work with business customers and technical teams 
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously 
• Excellent customer relationship management skills 
• Innovative problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment  
• Ability to work on client site in the NCR in Washington, D.C.; Reston, VA; or College Park, MD
• This position requires an active security clearance at the TS/SCI level with the ability/willingness to receive a polygraph. Current polygraph preferred.

Desired:

• Masters degree or higher
• Advanced knowledge of SQL or Python
• Experience using python libraries to build regression models and decision trees
• Experience with version control software like Git
• Management consulting experience desired 
• Experience working with unstructured text and natural language processing.
• Experience with deploying and maintaining models in production
• Previous experience with people analytics

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