Senior Specialist, Federal Data Science

KPMG LLP; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG LLP seeks a Senior Specialist to join our Federal Advisory practice in McLean, VA. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to identify business opportunities and design machine learning solutions that translate data into actionable insights for government clients.

You will lead AI engagements, work with data engineers on ETL pipelines, and leverage cloud platforms to deliver data-driven products, dashboards, and reproducible reports. U.S.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of technical data science experience, preferably with U.S. Federal government consulting
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, R, Java, SQL and their open-source packages/libraries
• Experience developing Deep Learning models (CNN, RNN) and applications (object detection, text recognition, language modeling) and tools (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Fast.ai)
• Familiarity with big data open-source tools (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and web frameworks/UI platforms (Flask, Shiny, Django, Dash)
• Experience leveraging cloud services or cloud certifications (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) is a plus
• Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements
• Applicant must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Collaborate multi-disciplinary teams to identify business opportunities and design ML/data science solutions
• Lead delivery of AI engagements following established processes and best practices
• Work with clients to understand business requirements and design data analytics solutions
• Ingest structured/unstructured data via ETL processes with data engineers
• Leverage diverse data sources to develop data-driven products and dashboards
• Perform exploratory data analysis and test hypotheses
• Develop machine learning, NLP, and statistical analyses; build reproducible reports

Skills

Data science

Programming languages (Python, R, Java

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Fast.ai

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Flask

Shiny

Django

Dash

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Specialist to join our Federal Advisory practice.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate multi-disciplinary / cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, design / develop machine learning, and data science solutions
• Utilize processes / best practices to plan, lead, and execute delivery of artificial intelligence engagements
• Work with clients to understand business requirements, design solutions utilizing data analytics solutions, and work with data engineers to develop / utilize ETL process to ingest structured / unstructured data
• Leverage a variety of data sources such as social media, internal / external documents, images, video, financial data, and operational data to develop cutting-edge data-driven products
• Perform explanatory data analysis, generate / test working hypotheses, prepare / analyze historical data, and identify data patterns
• Perform machine learning, natural language, and statistical analysis methods
• Contribute to developing dashboards, UI and interactive tools to support clients turn their data into actionable insights / reproducible reports

Qualifications:

• A minimum of three years of technical data science experience; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; Master's degree preferred
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, R, Java, SQL, and their open-source packages / libraries
• Experience in developing Deep Learning models (e.g. CNN, Recurrent, etc.) and its applications (e.g. - object detection, text recognition, language modeling, etc.) and tools (e.g. - TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Fast.ai, etc.)
• Familiarity with big data open-source tools (e.g. - Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.) and open-source web frameworks / UI Platforms (e.g. - Flask, Shiny, Django, Dash)
• Experience leveraging cloud services in technical data environments or Cloud Certification (AWS Solution Architect, AWS Machine Learning, Google Data Engineering, Azure AI Engineering Associate, etc.) is a plus
• Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements
• Applicant must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance