Data Scientist

Excelacom; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Excelacom in Reston, VA seeks a Consultant-level professional to lead data-driven analytics, ML model development, and AI agent workflows for telecom clients. You will deliver advisory services to senior management and transform business problems into actionable data solutions.

You will quantify business value, design AI agent orchestration, and map solutions to TM Forum-like frameworks while engaging with Directors and VPs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Machine learning or Data Science.
• 3+ years of experience developing ML solutions using Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas and experience integrating LLMs via APIs and building agentic AI workflows.
• Prior consulting experience with a leading strategy firm, consulting practice, or consulting technology firm.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM evaluation/observability techniques.
• Excellent writing, presentation and communications skills.

Responsibilities

• Specialize in data driven, advanced analytics approaches to solving client problems.
• Build reports to advanced machine learning models and AI agent workflows to drive client improvements.
• Deliver advisory services to Senior Management on AI/ML leveraging generative AI and agents.
• Build solutions from problem to data, models, and insights for clients.
• Quantify business value of ML projects and map AI solutions to industry frameworks.
• Prepare proposals and present to clients, coordinating with teams.
• Drive data research to identify opportunities for product roadmap.

Skills

ML

Python

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

Pandas

LLMs via APIs

LangChain

LangGraph

NLP

Anomaly Detection

Education

Master’s degree in Machine learning or Data Science

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Python

TensorFlow

Scikit-learn

Job description

Who We Are

Excelacom is a global consulting and technology solutions firm solving client’s complex business and technology challenges through a mix of consulting expertise, telecom-focused software, and managed services within the communications and media industries.

Reston, VA

Who You Are

At the Consultant-level, you will be expected to independently contribute ideas, recommendations, and solutions toward solving business challenges, construct key components of deliverables/presentations, and contribute to the development of Intellectual Capital (IC) and Marketing Collateral. You will serve as a team leader for individual work streams and acquire a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s expertise, product set, and capabilities. Most importantly, you will embrace our firm’s brand and core values.

Role and Responsibilities

• Specialize in data driven, advanced analytics approaches to solving client problems
• Build everything from basic reports to advanced machine learning models, generative AI applications, and AI agent workflows and algorithms to drive improvements to our client’s operations
• Deliver advisory services to Excelacom Senior Management on how AI/ML, generative AI, and AI agents can be leveraged to enable business improvements
• Build solutions from understanding business problems, to collecting datasets, to analyzing data, to modeling, to validating, to delivering models, and producing insights for our clients
• Ability to quantify the business value of ML projects
• Design and orchestrate AI agent workflows and multi-agent systems, integrating large language models (LLMs) into client operational processes
• Map AI/ML and agentic solutions to industry frameworks (e.g., TM Forum eTOM/ODA) to align delivery with telecom client lifecycle domains
• Prepare solutions and proposals and present to clients
• Responsible for individual projects in order to determine, define, and deploy machine learning and data analytics technologies to meet business objectives
• Proactively research data and identify opportunities to drive the product roadmap
• Leveraging Excelacom’s domestic and international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Machine learning or Data Science
• Project experience using Supervised and Unsupervised ML algorithms, NLP and Text Mining, Anomaly Detection
• 3+ years of experience developing ML solutions using Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas, and experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) via APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) and building agentic AI workflows (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph)
• Prior consulting experience with a leading strategy firm, consulting practice, or consulting technology firm
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM evaluation/observability techniques
• Familiarity with TM Forum frameworks (eTOM, ODA) or telecom operational processes, and responsible AI/governance considerations for client-facing deployments, is a plus
• Excellent writing, presentation and communications skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical personnel
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with Directors, VPs, etc.
• Ability to work in a highly intensive timeline environment with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrate experience eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, business process reviews, and task and workflow analysis.
• Analyze and de-conflict requirements, data and information from multiple data sources and decompose them into detailed requirements.
• Excelacom is currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Compensation and Benefits

For individuals assigned to work in Virginia, Excelacom is required to include a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role. However, final salaries will vary based on several factors, such as candidate’s level, qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. An individual may be hired at the Analyst, Consultant, or Manager level for this role with each level requiring an increasing set of responsibilities. For regular full-time employees, the estimated salary range is from $100,000 to $140,000.

Our competitive salaries are just one component of Excelacom’s total compensation package for our regular full-time employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, ancillary benefits, Life and AD&DD insurance, 401k, and generous paid time off policies.

EEO Statement

Excelacom, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Any decision affecting employment, compensation, promotion, or transfer will be based solely on personal qualifications and merit, regardless of sex, race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability, age, results of genetic testing, service in the military, pregnancy, childbirth or other related medical conditions or any other factor protected under applicable law.