Data Scientist Subject Matter Expert

Man Tech is seeking a highly motivated and career-oriented Data Scientist Subject Matter Expert to help lead the development and delivery of high-quality predictive modeling solutions for our CBP customer. This position is currently on a telework schedule. All candidates wishing to be considered must reside within a commutable distance to Northern Virginia.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead and perform hands-on data and threat/intel analysis leading to development of analytics solutions (e.g. predictive models, visual analytics reports), to support CBP users conduct law enforcement mission critical activities.
• Collaborate with mission stakeholders to define, frame, and scope mission challenges where big data interventions may offer important mitigations to project schedules and outcomes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in extracting, cleaning, and transforming CBP transactional and associated data sets within an identified problem space to build predictive models as well as develop appropriate supporting documentation.
• Leverage knowledge of a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques to develop, evaluate, and deploy new predictive analytical models that directly inform mission decisions.
• Utilize and explore variety of statistical/modeling tools and languages to compare and assess best performing Machine Learning results.
• Execute projects including those intended to identify patterns and/or anomalies in large datasets; perform automated text/data classification and categorization as well as entity recognition, resolution and extraction; and named entity matching.
• Brief project management, technical design, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior government stakeholders throughout the model development/ project lifecycle through written as well as in-person reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in developing machine learning models and applying advanced analytics solutions to solve complex business problems
• Experience with programming languages including: R, Python, Scala, Java.
• Proficiency with SQL programming
• Experience constructing and executing queries to extract data in support of EDA and model development
• Proficiency with statistical software packages including: SAS, SPSS Modeler, R, WEKA, or equivalent
• Experience with pattern recognition and extraction, automated classification, and categorization
• Experience with entity resolution (e.g., record linking, named-entity matching, deduplication/ disambiguation)
• Experience with unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques and methods
• Experience performing data mining, analysis, and training set construction

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience/Proficiency in conducting development and integration activities to deploy, assess and update Machine Learning models into applications for end-user use and evaluation.
• Proficiency with Unsupervised Machine Learning methods including Cluster Analysis (e.g., K-means, K-nearest Neighbor, Hierarchical, Deep Belief Networks, Principal Component Analysis), Segmentation, etc.
• Proficiency with Supervised Machine Learning methods including Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Random/Rotation Forests, Categorization/Classification, Neural Nets, Bayesian Networks, etc.
• Experience with pattern recognition and extraction, automated classification, and categorization
• Experience with entity resolution (e.g., record linking, named-entity matching, deduplication/ disambiguation)
• Experience with visualization tools and techniques (e.g., Periscope, Business Objects, D3, ggplot, Tableau, SAS Visual Analytics, PowerBI)
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, HIVE, HDFS, HBase, Map Reduce, Spark, Kafka, Sqoop)
• Master’s Degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science/engineering, or other related technical fields with equivalent practical experience

Education Requirements:

• A PhD and 7 years of relevant experience, a Master’s and 9 years of relevant experience, a Bachelors and 12 years of relevant experience or 18 years of relevant experience is required.

Clearance requirements:

• Selected applicants must be a US Citizen and able to…