Data Scientist (US Citizenship REQUIRED)

i3; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

i3, LLC seeks a Data Scientist to support OIG programs with advanced analytics, BI, and predictive modeling. The role focuses on data mining, analytics across disparate systems, and producing actionable insights for audit and investigation teams.

The candidate should bring hands-on experience with Databricks, PySpark, Unity Catalog, and graph databases, plus several years of fraud analytics and data management to drive impactful results.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of hands-on experience developing analytic rules and models.
• Five+ years of data management and advanced analytic techniques.
• Five+ years detecting and preventing fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement.
• Five+ years working in team environments as well as independently.
• Experience using at least two of: R, Python, Power BI, SQL, Tableau, SAS in the last 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science projects to develop BI solutions, data mining, analytics, and predictive models across large datasets.
• Create visualizations (graphs, charts, interactive maps) and written reports to communicate findings to investigators.

Skills

Data analysis

Fraud detection

Model development

Data mining

Visualization

Team collaboration

Tools

Databricks

PySpark

Unity Catalog

Neo4J

Power BI

SQL

Tableau

SAS

R

Python

Job description

Data Scientist - US Citizenship Required

i3, LLC is in search of a Data Scientist to support the mission of the Offices of Inspectors General (OIG). The OIG’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) has established the Pandemic Response Center of Excellence (PACE) contract and analytical platform for the purpose of conducting data analysis and visualization; sharing leading practices; providing tools and services; and providing investigative intelligence.

• Work is remote, but candidate must be based in United States (must be a resident of Maryland, Virginia, DC, NC, FL, TX or AL)
• US Citizenship is required, an active Secret clearance is highly desirable

1. Data Scientist will lead data science projects specific to developing business intelligence solutions that encompass data mining, data analytics, and predictive analysis using vast amounts of data across disparate systems and databases. From the underlying patterns in the data, trends, relationships, and anomalies, results are formulated, interpreted and articulated into audit and investigative actionable decision information which are then communicated orally and through the creation of visualizations (graphs, charts, and interactive mapping), including written reports. Experience in Data Bricks, Pyspark and Unity Catalog is very important. Two or more years of experience in training, evaluating and deploying machine learning models using Databricks, leveraging Pyspark MLlib and unity Catalog for model management and governance with recent experience (in the last 6 months). Also experience using Neo4J is a plus.

Required and preferred experience:

• five (5) or more years of, continuous in time, hands-on experience developing analytic rules and models using leading edge fraud analytic tools and industry best practices.
• five (5) or more years of, continuous in time, hands-on experience of data management and advanced analytic techniques. The experience has to be current within the last 6 months.
• five (5) or more years of, continuous in time, hands-on experience proactively using data sciences to identify, detect and prevent fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. The experience has to be current within the last 6 months.
• five (5) or more years of experience, continuous in time, working in the team environments as well as independent.
• In addition to Databricks, the data scientists shall have experience within the last 12 months using at least (2) other software packages and/or computer programming languages from the following list:

• R
• Python
• Power BI
• SQL
• Tableau
• SAS