Data Scientist I — Analytics, ML & Visualization

WOOD Federal Solutions; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 138,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Professional Development

Work-Life Balance

Wellness Programs

Job summary

WOOD Federal Solutions in Fort Meade, Maryland, is seeking a Data Scientist, Level 1, for full-time work with daytime shifts. The role requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Salary ranges from $138,200 to $152,000 per year, with starting pay based on education and experience. Responsibilities include producing data visualizations, collaborating with SMEs to extract information from diverse data formats, and transforming qualitative goals into quantitative features

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, or computer science with four years of analytics experience.
• Master's degree may substitute for two years analytics experience and one year programming with data analysis software (R, Python, SAS, MATLAB).
• In lieu of a Bachelor's Degree, four additional years of analytics experience may substitute for eight years of analytics experience and two years programming.

Responsibilities

• Produce data visualizations that provide insight into dataset structure and meaning.
• Collaborate with SMEs to identify important information and develop scripts that extract this information from various data formats (e.g., SQL tables, structured metadata, network logs).
• Incorporate SME input into feature vectors suitable for analytic development and testing.
• Translate customer qualitative analysis goals into quantitative formulations coded into software prototypes.
• Develop and implement statistical, machine learning, and heuristic techniques to create descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.
• Develop statistical tests to make data-driven recommendations and decisions.

Skills

Data visualization

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Data wrangling

Collaboration with SMEs

Education

Bachelor's degree in statistics / mathematics / OR / engineering / computer science

Master's degree substitution: 2 years analytics + 1 year programming

Alternative: 8 years analytics experience in lieu of Bachelor's

Tools

Python

R

SAS

MATLAB

SQL

Job description

WOOD Federal Solutions in Fort Meade, Maryland, is seeking a Data Scientist, Level 1, for full-time work with daytime shifts. The role requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Salary ranges from $138,200 to $152,000 per year, with starting pay based on education and experience. Responsibilities include producing data visualizations, collaborating with SMEs to extract information from diverse data formats, and transforming qualitative goals into quantitative features