Operational Research/Data Scientist

Unissant; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support DHS ICE LESA STU in Washington, DC. The role focuses on predictive modeling, feature engineering, and model evaluation within a high-accountability government setting.

The candidate will contribute to official reporting workflows, data quality monitoring, and business requirements for analytic solutions in a federal environment.

Qualifications

• Strong predictive modeling, feature engineering, and model evaluation skills.
• Experience supporting official reporting workflows and data quality monitoring.
• Experience in operations research and federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Support ICE/STU official reporting workflows and production of metrics.
• Monitor data quality and ensure accuracy of critical reporting outputs.
• Develop business requirements for analytic initiatives in a high-accountability government setting.

Skills

Predictive modeling

Feature engineering

Model evaluation

OR methods

Federal environment

Tools

IIDS

ENFORCE

Job description

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at .
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team in Washington, DC, in support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Law Enforcement Systems and Analysis (LESA) program within the Statistical Tracking Unit (STU).
The STU is the official statistical reporting unit for ICE, responsible for ensuring accountability, consistency, and efficiency in the statistical reporting of ICE operations. STU supports analysis of key performance metrics, provides ad hoc analysis and reporting for congressional inquiries, interagency requests, litigation, and FOIA, and assesses and improves reporting tools including the ICE Integrated Decision Support System (IIDS) and ENFORCE. The ideal candidate is a data scientist with strong predictive modeling, feature engineering, and model evaluation skills, with particular ability to support official reporting workflows, data quality monitoring, and business requirements development in a high-accountability government environment. In addition, the ideal candidate brings substantial experience in operations research (OR) methods and federal environments and is able to apply OR techniques to enforcement and immigration lifecycle problems.
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