Data Science Consultant

Position Summary

In this age of disruption, organizations need to navigate the future with confidence by tapping into the power of data analytics, robotics, and cognitive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our Strategy & Analytics portfolio helps clients leverage rigorous analytical capabilities and a pragmatic mindset to solve the most complex of problems. By joining our team, you will play a key role in helping to our clients uncover hidden relationships from vast troves of data and transforming the Government and Public Services marketplace.

Work you’ll do

The Data Science Consultant will, as part of several client delivery teams, be responsible for developing, designing, and maintaining cutting-edge AI-based systems, ensuring smooth and engaging user experiences. Additionally, they will participate in a wide variety of Natural Language Processing activities, building Machine Learning Models, AI Algorithms, code and design review.

Responsibilities will include:

• Working with key business stakeholders, IT experts, and subject-matter experts to plan and deliver optimal data solutions.
• Creating, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines as workloads move from development to production for specific use cases to ensure seamless data flow for the use case.
• Design, develop and apply state-of-the-art methods within AI and machine learning models to solve complex problems
• Act as an AI thought leader, including the creation of whitepapers, presentations, executive briefings, reports, and other materials to support AI solutions and services
• Guide federal clients with high autonomy in AI strategy and development, including understanding agency needs, performing exploratory data analysis, building and validating models, and deploying models into both on-prem and cloud environments
• Iterate on and/or create repeatable, reusable processes and scalable data systems that meet technical and deployment challenges
• Maintain and uphold data science best practices on new methodologies, technologies, industry trends, and open source packages
• Work cross-functionally with other scientists & data engineers, federal account manager and leadership to help ensure project delivery and success

The Team

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes—is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of over 15,000+ professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

The GPS Analytics and Cognitive (A&C) offering is responsible for developing advanced analytics products and applying data visualization and statistical programming tools to enterprise data in order to advance and enable the key mission outcomes for our clients. Our team supports all phases of analytic work product development, from the identification of key business questions through data collection and ETL, and from performing analyses and using a wide range of statistical, machine learning, and applied mathematical techniques to delivery insights to decision-makers. Our practitioners give special attention to the interplay between data and the business processes that produce it and the decision-makers that consume insights.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Must have Active Top Secret clearance or above
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Active TS clearance or higher required
• 2+ years of experience with programming languages such as SQL, R, Python
• 2+ years of experience with Machine Learning (ML) and/or Artificial Intelligence (AI) Modeling
• 2+ years of experience with data visualization tools, such as Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, d3.js, or equivalent
• Ability to travel 5-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• 3+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience
• Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
• Knowledge of data mining, machine learning, data visualization and statistical modeling
• Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

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