Data Scientist

About the role

TRSS Data Scientist candidates must possess the following minimum qualifications. Please ensure your resume and application clearly demonstrate that you have:

• United States Citizenship (essential to comply with government contract requirements).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance or agency work suitability determination, as required by assignment.
• Willingness to work full time, on-site, embedded at US Government offices in the Washington, DC area. (Specific office assignments are subject to change).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technical field (e.g., data science, statistics, computer science, mathematics, physical/biological sciences, or geographic information systems (GIS), etc.).
• At least 3 years of relevant experience. Relevant experience can include some combination of:
• Large Data Management: querying, extracting, cleaning, verifying, resolving, and maintaining data.
• Large Data Analysis: statistical methods, graph networks, anomaly detection, spatial analysis, pattern-of-life, sentiment analysis.
• Large Data Modeling: risk modeling, community detection, classification, computer vision, and general application of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models.
• Large Data Storytelling: explaining insights and methodology to a non-technical audience, dashboards, plots & visualizations, direct experience with customers.
• Programming: Candidates must have practical experience writing, editing, customizing, and executing code written in Python.
• SQL proficiency: Candidates must have experience using SQL for data extraction, pipelining, or exploration.
• Master’s Degree in a related field can substitute two (2) years of experience.
• PhD (or equivalent) in a related field can substitute four (4) years of experience.
• Ability to handle sensitive, confidential, or regulated data in accordance with applicable policies and requirements.
• Ability to interface directly with customers at all levels and be a representative of TRSS.
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team. Teams may include other Data Scientists or be cross-disciplinary and include Subject Matter Expert Analysts and/or Data Engineers.
• Ability to interpret customer requests and/or problem statements into clear project plans, develop project goals and methods, and to deliver actionable results within required timeframes.

About You

Preference will be given to candidates who possess the minimum qualifications and the following preferred qualifications. Please ensure your resume and application clearly demonstrate that you have:

• Current/Active government work suitability or security clearance.
• Experience working with law enforcement agencies.
• Programming skills in multiple languages other than Python (Python is a minimum requirement) including R, Java, or SQL.
• Experience with software development, including managing collaborative codebases, version control, linting/testing, containerization, and interacting with REST APIs.