Mission-Driven Data Scientist: Predictive Analytics & ML

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Scientist to deliver predictive models and advanced analytics for government missions in the Washington, DC area. You will build ML solutions for large-scale data environments and perform rigorous exploratory data analysis across structured and unstructured datasets.

On-site work is required with up to 10% travel; active Secret clearance is needed. You will collaborate with government stakeholders to translate mission needs into data-driven solutions and ensure

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis and ML.
• Experience with pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn or similar libraries.
• Experience with large datasets, cleaning, transformation, and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop predictive models and perform advanced analytics for government missions.
• Build, refine, and validate ML solutions supporting large-scale data environments.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluations across datasets.
• Implement end-to-end data science workflows including ingestion, transformation, modeling, visualization.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders to translate mission needs into data-driven solutions.
• Deliver reproducible, well-documented analyses aligned with government standards.
• Support government site analytics environments including cloud-based compute systems.
• Work within cross-functional teams to integrate analytics into broader architectures.

Skills

Python

pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

Tools

Jupyter Notebook

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Scientist to deliver predictive models and advanced analytics for government missions in the Washington, DC area. You will build ML solutions for large-scale data environments and perform rigorous exploratory data analysis across structured and unstructured datasets.

On-site work is required with up to 10% travel; active Secret clearance is needed. You will collaborate with government stakeholders to translate mission needs into data-driven solutions and ensure