Senior Data Scientist - Risk Modeling & Dashboards (Gov)

Makpar; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Career development

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Makpar is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support the Safeguards risk-based review selection process. You will maintain and enhance risk models, health score calculations, data fields, scripts, macros, dashboards, and analytics to identify at-risk agency partners and prioritize reviews.

The role requires a strong background in data science, automation, and visualization using Tableau, R, Python 3, and VBA, with the ability to present results to management and non-technical stakeholders and to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting? Actually related discipline such as data science, mathematics, engineering, finance, economics.
• Demonstrated experience using scientific methods to extract insights from structured and unstructured data.
• Demonstrated experience applying data insights across application domains.
• Demonstrated experience using automation and scripting techniques.
• Demonstrated experience presenting results to management and non‑technical personnel.
• Specialized experience with Tableau, R programming, Python 3, and VBA.
• Ability to complete IRS suitability / staff‑like access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build enhancements and maintain risk models supporting review selection.
• Maintain data fields, code, scripts, formulas, and macros used to analyze review findings and risk model outputs.
• Support Health Score calculations and weighted risk factor evaluations.
• Aggregate and evaluate data to identify at-risk agency partners.
• Manually validate automated risk rankings and data outputs.
• Develop and maintain risk dashboards showing findings, risk levels, rankings, remediation status, and historical trends.
• Prepare materials for quarterly risk team meetings and support action-item tracking.
• Present analytic results to management and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Data science fundamentals

Automation scripting

Data visualization

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in related discipline

Tools

Tableau

R

Python 3

VBA

Job description

Makpar is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support the Safeguards risk-based review selection process. You will maintain and enhance risk models, health score calculations, data fields, scripts, macros, dashboards, and analytics to identify at-risk agency partners and prioritize reviews.

The role requires a strong background in data science, automation, and visualization using Tableau, R, Python 3, and VBA, with the ability to present results to management and non-technical stakeholders and to