Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stage 4 Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General. The role focuses on developing advanced analytics and machine learning solutions to identify fraud and non-compliance across SBA programs, working closely with investigators and auditors.
Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and expertise to identify trends, patterns, and other insights
- Provide analytics support to audits and investigations
- Utilize algorithms to identify and test potential causal variables and identify sub-populations via cluster-analysis
- Develop and deploy a machine-learning model to aid in fraud detection
- Utilize NLP techniques to ingest, encode, and semantically classify and query large text corpora
- Aid in the development of dashboards or reports to visualize data and storytelling
- Assist in ingestion, transformation, and configuration of data in cloud-based data lake or data warehouse
- Produce network graphs, interactive maps, or other visualizations to convey complex data in support of criminal investigations
- Assist with exploration, structuring, and analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data from SQL and data lake environments
- Create programming and automation techniques to improve task efficiency in tools such as SharePoint, Python, and Power BI
Skills
- Master's degree, Ph.D., or equivalent doctoral-level degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related field; or 10+ years of equivalent applied experience
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced AI systems and predictive machine learning models
- 5+ years of experience developing statistical models, fraud analytics, regression, classification, clustering, and anomaly detection solutions
- 3+ years of experience supporting fraud investigations, audits, or similar analytical programs
- 3+ years of experience programming in Python, including Pandas
- Experience working within cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform
- 2+ years of advanced SQL experience, including SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- 2+ years of experience developing and scaling Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions
- Experience presenting technical findings to both technical and executive audiences through reports, presentations, and data visualizations
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI and other data visualization tools
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation
- Microsoft Azure certifications are preferred
Benefits
- Health benefits
- 401(k)
- W2 role
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