Senior Data Scientist – Financial Crime (Onsite DC, TS/SCI)

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

Job summary

Omniscius Consulting in Washington, DC seeks a Data Scientist to support FinCEN programs. You will apply advanced data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning to large-scale financial data to detect financial crime patterns.

The role requires hands-on Python/R, AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Lambda), SQL, and experience with BSA/AML domains. You will collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into analytical solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of overall professional experience.
• 4–5+ years as a Data Scientist.
• Strong statistical modeling and ML experience.
• Hands-on Python and R programming.
• Experience with Python data science tools (Jupyter Notebook, PySpark, Pandas).
• Strong SQL skills for large datasets.
• Experience with AWS cloud-native services (S3, RDS, OpenSearch, Lambda).
• Experience with large-scale structured and unstructured data.
• Knowledge of BSA/AML data.
• Ability translate requirements into models and analyses.
• Excellent technical documentation and communication skills.
• Bachelor's in Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Math, CS, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, validate, and deploy ML models and algorithms on financial data.
• Develop analytics to detect structuring, layering, and suspicious activity.
• EDA, feature engineering, statistics, and model validation.
• Build data science solutions using Python, Jupyter, PySpark, Pandas, and R.
• Use SQL for complex queries over large datasets.
• Work with AWS services (S3, PostgreSQL RDS, OpenSearch, Lambda).
• Collaborate with compliance analysts and investigators to translate requirements.
• Create visualizations and communicate findings to diverse audiences.
• Document data pipelines, methodologies, model logic, and findings.
• Participate in peer code reviews and promote reproducible workflows.
• Support ongoing improvement of analytical models for financial crime detection.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

AWS

Jupyter Notebook

PySpark

Pandas

OpenSearch

Data Visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

PostgreSQL RDS

S3

Lambda

Job description

Omniscius Consulting in Washington, DC seeks a Data Scientist to support FinCEN programs. You will apply advanced data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning to large-scale financial data to detect financial crime patterns.

The role requires hands-on Python/R, AWS services (S3, OpenSearch, Lambda), SQL, and experience with BSA/AML domains. You will collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into analytical solutions.