Senior Data Scientist

Summary

DAS Services is seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Data Scientist who shall carry out the coordinated organization, direction, and implementation of complex and interrelated projects in support of our clients in our analytics portfolio. The Senior Data Scientist is responsible to day-to-day client management, program deliverables, client relations, and service delivery to support a growing portfolio of analytics programs.

Responsibilities

• The Data Scientist understands unit objectives and develops models to enable mission completion, along with metrics to track model progress and effectiveness
• Analyze algorithms with potential to solve customer problems, and ranks them by success probability
• Explore datasets and verifies data quality to gain an understanding of relevant data, then identifies differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the machine learning model in an operational environment
• Identify and condition datasets for machine learning test uses
• Tune machine learning model hyper-parameters
• Visualize and manipulate big datasets
• Responsible for conducting qualitative event uncertainty and risk analysis, as well as quantification of cost and schedule risk
• Responsible for recommending and implementing risk mitigation actions
• Support quantitative and qualitative integrated assessments of risk across entire projects, and to assess the uncertainties (including work scope gaps, normal estimating, variability error, and risk events) associated with integrated baseline activities and activities and assist in the implementation of the risk mitigation actions
• Identify and prioritize risk events in the integrated baselines
• Perform qualitative analysis to forecast an accurate and realistic project schedule to anticipate potential areas of high risk and uncertainty
• Perform advanced risk analysis and associate risk items to direct impacts on scope/cost/schedule, and operations/intelligence/institutional/organizational missions and activities
• Function independently and can present/defend the risk status to senior management

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Bachelors’ Degree in relevant field, may be substituted for ten (10 ) years total of relevant experience
• Minimum ten (10 ) years of experience of project management experience in the federal space
• Proficient with deep learning frameworks, and has proficiency with Python, R, MS SQL, and basic libraries (such as Scikit-Learn and Pandas)
• Familiar with Linux and proficient with OpenCV
• Experience with managing contract financials, and contract management & CDRLs
• Proven project portfolio, program and project manager experience and sound understanding of the principles and frameworks of successful project management
• Proven experience in providing service, effectively interacting and relationship building with internal and external stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes
• Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgment, assertiveness
• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively interact with senior management from customer/partner companies as well as senior customer officials
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as excellent presentation skills
• Must be able to understand multi-level customer/user expectations and concerns
• Ability to set and manage priorities judiciously
• Keen attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Perform other tasks consistent with the goals and objectives of the department/contract
• Perform other duties as assigned

Desired Skills

• Understanding of Human Resources, employee performance improvement plans, and corrective action policies
• Experience with task-based contracts
• Certified Program of Project Management Professional (PgMP or PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Experience with Microsoft Project

About DAS: Defense Acquisition Support Services is a Women Owned Small Business focused on hiring the very best people in Defense Contracting. As a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) focused organization, we partner with the government to help them achieve Mission Success. Established in 2007, we have remained “People Focused” and understand the secret to organizational success is the team. Our “People Focused” approach enables us to hire, retain, and help our teammates succeed and assist them by providing the very best possible support available to our government customers. 

The DAS Culture: We are “People Focused.” Each team member gets an employee concierge who is charged with helping ensure personal and professional success for our people. We care and try to help people find the right fit so they can find happiness, development, and a rewarding career. We succeed by helping you succeed.

DAS Benefits: We provide real benefits for our team that includes:

• Free Health Care from Aetna
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• 401K
• Employer Paid Group Life
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Professional Development Training