MANTECH seeks a Data Scientist to join their team to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apply “big data” solutions to promote efficient trade and travel, and ensure the movement of people, capital, and products are legal, safe, and secure, given the volume and complexity of border crossings.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with SQL programming
- Experience constructing and executing queries to extract data in support of EDA and model development
- Experience with unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques and methods
- Experience performing data mining, analysis, and training set construction
- Proficiency with statistical software packages including: SAS, SPSS Modeler, R, WEKA, or equivalent
Responsibilities
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling involving the creation of intervention hypotheses and experiments, assessment of data needs and available sources, determination of optimal analytical approaches, performance of exploratory data analysis, and feature generation (e.g., identification, derivation, aggregation).
- Demonstrate proficiency in extracting, cleaning, and transforming CBP transactional and mission data 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 and methods to define and develop programming algorithms; train, evaluate, and deploy predictive analytics models that directly inform mission decisions.
- 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.
Other
- This is a hybrid position with 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.
- Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain DHS Customs and Border Protection (CBP) suitability.
- The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
