Data Scientist

Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, or Arlington

Hybrid

Clearance Required: Active Secret or an active TS clearance (must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope)

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools

We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.

Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.

Summary of Position:

Supporting DoD's biosurveillance program and national efforts against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats as a Data Scientist you will be a part of a team that focuses on gathering, interpreting, automating, standardizing, communicating, documenting, and integrating data into a command data model/data mesh network, surveillance architectures, and test detection systems.

This position will be part of our Defense and Intelligence Team serving the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security as well as the IC as our primary customers.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and maintain dashboards according to user requirements

• Collaborate with data engineering and functional resources to build performant applications to support requirements from the procurement, FM and other communities as needed and approved by leaders

• Designs, configures, develops, tests, and supports informatics and data science solutions for a wide array of technical use cases;

• Applies analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance;

• Documents and presents requirements, design alternatives, and findings to team members and external stakeholders

• Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships; and

• Experience with integrated development environments, data integration, data visualization, data mining, and analysis tools.

• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used
by multiple teams.

• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping

Job Specifications/Requirements:

• Experience with ML fields, e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, statistical learning theory;

• Experience in an ML engineer or data scientist role building ML models;

• Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C++ with documentation for reproducibility;

• Experience handling terabyte size datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualization tools, writing SQL, and working with GPUs to develop models; and

• Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences and giving data-driven presentations.

• 5+ years experience developing in Python and SQL; experience with Apache

• 5+ years experience developing dashboards using either Qlik or Tableau

• Minimum 2+ years experience working directly with either contracting or Financial Management
data sources

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Spark and EQL is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 1-3
  years of experience.

About Elder Research, Inc

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.