Data Scientist Premium I

Job Title:Data Scientist Premium I
Duration: 6 Months - Long Term
Location: Washington, DC 20433

Hybrid Onsite: 4 days per week from Day 1, with a full transition to 100% onsite anticipated soon

Position Overview:
The position requires a quality-focused and detail-oriented Data Scientist with a demonstrated track record of providing solutions for high-priority business goals and strategic management decisions. The incumbent should be a skilled troubleshooter and problem solver with the ability to translate business processes and problem statements into requirements. The incumbent must be able to deliver results within tight timelines.

Essential Job Functions:
" Responsible for creating, and maintaining, conceptual, logical, and physical data models defining business requirements for management and business intelligence purpose
" Extensive experience in mapping data elements for ETL purposes
" Optimize and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects
" Experience in generating physical DDL to deploy to databases
" Analyze data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions
" Guide System Analysts, Engineers, Programmers and others on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces

Educational Qualifications and Experience:
" Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Statistics, Data Science, or Mathematics.
" Experience with modelling tools like Erwin, Visio
" Experience with large datasets and analytics platforms
" Role Specific Experience: relevant technical and business work experience in Digital Technologies
" Extensive experience as a Data Analyst and Data Scientist
" Extensive experience data visualizations tools such as R Shiny, Plotly or D3 or PowerBi
" Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring the artifacts to those methodologies
" Expert skills in statistics, econometrics, and related areas such as geospatial analysis, statistical modelling/forecasting, and/or machine learning
" understanding of econometric and statistical methods

Required Skills/Abilities:
" Knowledge of Python or R is required.
" Strong data analysis skills and ability to suggest improvements for efficiency and effectiveness of solutions based on industry best practices
" Knowledge of data analysis best practices and ability to apply them.
" Advanced knowledge of specific data analytics area, processes, data workflows, standards, and business practices
" Proven conceptual, analytical, and judgmental skills
" Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate well with all levels, technical as well as non-technical stakeholders
" Ability to work directly with clients and management without supervision and to facilitate and navigate discussions with stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritization, and consensus
" Leadership skills and ability to work well with diverse team members, often in multiple locations
" Ability to work with different points-of-view and lead the team to convergence, while always keeping the project objectives in sight
" Strong presentation and facilitation skills
" Excellent personal organization skills and ability to take things to closure without follow-ups

Desired Skills/Abilities (not required but a plus):
" Knowledge of general programming and Stata would be a plus.
" Desirable knowledge of Business Intelligence Reports, PL/SQL and C++ numerical programming, MS Access, Oracle, and reporting tools such as Crystal Reports
" Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools
" Knowledge of ITIL, service, and process management
" Certificates such as IIBA, ITIL Foundation, etc.
" Knowledge and experience in DA implementation on COTS projects
" Experience with implementing information security in DA, Reporting
" Experience in problem solving with strong skills in design and problem formulation; data curation; data acquisition, data cleaning, and data management; data interpretation and analysis; and the presentation and communication of results
" Spatial analysis: Expertise in at least one GIS analysis software, such as QGIS or ArcGIS

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.