Data Scientist​/Analyst

Job Description

Position – Data Scientist/Analyst

Location – Silver Spring, MD - must be on site, not a remote position

Salary Range - $120,000-$150,000

As a part of a data analytics and support services team, the Data Analyst will support efforts providing data science, architect, and data analytics support that includes analyzing, verifying, designing, refining, modernizing, and maintaining the data model and component views within various client systems. The contractor team reviews and conducts analysis of the current data models and data logic utilized in the vision registry to identify any gaps that may exist.

The team shall perform a gap analysis that includes a comprehensive and concise mitigation plan to address any gaps found within the data model. The team shall use industry standard methodologies to ensure that the data model, data logic, and the established business rules are accurately presented in the reporting capabilities of the systems. The team is responsible for analyzing and providing recommendations for utilizing big data sets by structuring and analyzing the data in a way that will allow client end users to prepare reports for population health perspective.

• Support the development and implementation of data marts, data structures, functions, data warehouse fact & dimension tables, views, and indexes
• Demonstrated ability to interact with Functional Analysts, Project Managers, ETL developers, and end users regarding data needs
• Support writing complex SQL queries and SQL performance tuning
• Experience working with SOAP and RESTful Web service
• Experience developing web-based solutions using HTML, CSS, Java script, JSON
• Working knowledge of industry W3C and standards, such as RDF, RDFs, OWL, XML
• Utilize advanced business intelligence skills. Proficiency and application experience in data architecture, data visualization, and reporting
• Strong understanding of data structures and modeling
• Experience modeling reporting marts/layers for multiple BI Tools
• Conduct data model reviews with project team members.
• Capture technical metadata through data modeling tools
• Gather analyst requirements, create, organize, and use data stores, create and use indexes, create and use data documents, and optimize the ability to query and retrieve required data
• Support the review and provide input on Business Rules Document(s)
• Document all scripts used for extracting/processing data
• Assist with other duties as assigned

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Bioinformatics, Physics, Operations Research, or related fields (strong mathematical/statistics background with ability to understand algorithms and methods from a mathematical viewpoint and an intuitive viewpoint) preferred
• 6+ years of practical experience preferred
• SQL or Tableau experience preferred
• Must possess and maintain an IT I level certification IAW AR 25-2 and an IAT II certification IAW DoD 8570.01-M and BBP 05-PR-M-0002
• Federal/Military programming or project exposure
• Understanding and experience in a broad range of database competencies
• Experience assessing impacts of legacy systems and addressing data related problems of system integration and compatibility
• Experience defining an overall data architecture as it relates to task goals during the analysis, design, planning phases and implementation of each project
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
• Strong data extraction and processing
• Experience with in the domain of population health

Work may involve sitting or standing for extended periods of time. Position may require typing and reading from a computer screen. Must have sufficient mobility, including but not limited to bending, reaching, and kneeling to complete daily duties in a timely and efficient…