Data Scientist — R/Python Visualization for Public Service

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service in Fort Collins, CO is seeking a data analytics professional to join the OPARM team. The role supports planning, analysis, risk management, and strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and visualization.

Applicants must meet the specialized experience or education required for GS-11 or GS-12, including programming, data cleaning, transformation, extraction, and visualization across multiple sources using Python, R, SAS, SQL, and BI tools.

Qualifications

• Experience writing programs in Python, R, SAS or SQL.
• Ability to clean and transform data from multiple sources.
• Experience extracting data from relational databases and networking with multiple sources for visualization.

Skills

Data cleaning

Data extraction

Data transformation

Data visualization

Code review

Education

Graduate education to Ph.D.

Tools

Python

R

SAS

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Qlik

Job description

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service in Fort Collins, CO is seeking a data analytics professional to join the OPARM team. The role supports planning, analysis, risk management, and strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and visualization.

Applicants must meet the specialized experience or education required for GS-11 or GS-12, including programming, data cleaning, transformation, extraction, and visualization across multiple sources using Python, R, SAS, SQL, and BI tools.