Senior Data Scientist: NLP & Large-Scale Data Pipelines

TechPerm Incorporated; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TechPerm Incorporated in Maryland is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to tackle large-scale, high-volume datasets in the federal space. You will build data pipelines, improve data quality, and optimize SQL-driven analytics workflows to support critical national services.

The role requires deep NLP expertise (NER, TF-IDF, blocking/indexing), strong Python/SQL skills, and a proven ability to communicate across teams. On-site work five days a week in Woodlawn, MD is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience.
• Hands-on experience with NLP, text processing, Python, SQL, Regex, and relevant libraries.

Responsibilities

• Design Advanced Analytics Solutions: Build and refine large-scale data pipelines, entity-resolution systems, and analytical workflows using Python and SQL across enterprise-grade data platforms.
• Elevate Data Quality: Clean, standardize, and manage massive datasets from diverse and complex sources, ensuring unmatched accuracy, consistency, and security.
• Drive Performance: Optimize high-complexity SQL and data operations to support rapid processing and scalable analytics workloads.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Participate in code reviews, enforce version control best practices, and uphold rigorous standards for privacy, reproducibility, and maintainability.
• Deliver End-to-End Solutions: Support validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Skills

NLP & text processing

Python

Regex

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Science, or related field

10+ years IT experience (relevant)

Tools

spaCy

Scikit-Learn

Linkage frameworks (Splink, FastLink, Dedupe, recordlinkage)

Job description

TechPerm Incorporated in Maryland is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to tackle large-scale, high-volume datasets in the federal space. You will build data pipelines, improve data quality, and optimize SQL-driven analytics workflows to support critical national services.

The role requires deep NLP expertise (NER, TF-IDF, blocking/indexing), strong Python/SQL skills, and a proven ability to communicate across teams. On-site work five days a week in Woodlawn, MD is expected.