Data Scientist

 

 

Candidates need to have excellent communication skills. This will be 5 days working from SSA HQ, so candidates should be local and ready to interview immediately.
Key Required Skills:
•            Strong practical experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Processing, and Information Extraction concepts including Named Entity Recognition, Blocking and Indexing, String Distance Metrics, TF-IDF/Cosine Similarity, Phonetics Encoding, Address Standardization
•            Solid Python, Regex, and SQL experience
•            Excellent Communication skills
Position Description:
•            Develop Analytics Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain advanced data processing and entity resolution pipelines using Python and SQL on enterprise data platforms.
•            Data Hygiene & Management: Clean, transform, and manage large-scale datasets from diverse, complex sources, ensuring absolute data integrity, reliability, and security.
•            Performance Optimization: Optimize complex SQL queries and database operations to ensure efficient data access, processing, and scalability.
•            Engineering Standards: Actively participate in code reviews, enforce version control, and uphold best practices for code quality, reproducibility, and data privacy.
•            End-to-End Delivery: Support data validation, testing, deployment, and post-implementation monitoring in a fast-paced environment.
Skills Requirements:
Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications)
•            Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with experience in NLP, Text Processing, Information Extraction, Python, SQL, Regex and specialized libraries/frameworks.
•            Overall 10+ years’ experience in IT industry
Factors To Help You Shine (Required Skills)
*Selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance*
*Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week*
*Master''s and 10+ years of experience, Bachelor''s and 12+ years of experience or 18+ years in lieu of a degree*
•            Strong practical experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Processing, and Information Extraction including:
o            Practical knowledge of Named Entity Recognition and Address Standardization to extract and clean unstructured text data.
o            Deep understanding of data matching strategies, including Blocking and Indexing, String Distance Metrics, and Phonetic Encoding.
o            Experience applying TD-IDF and Cosine Similarity for text comparisons and information retrieval.
•            Strong Python development skills for building analytics solutions and manipulating data.
•            Advanced SQL proficiency for complex data querying, optimization, and database operations.
•            Practical experience using Regex for advanced text processing, data cleansing, and pattern matching.
•            Familiarity with specialized libraries and frameworks including:
o            Linkage libraries such as Splink / FastLink, Dedupe, or recordlinkage
o            Core Python data science libraries, specifically spaCy for NLP tasks and Scikit-Learn for general machine learning and clustering
•            Familiarity with code reviews, version control, and maintaining data security and reproducibility standards.
•            Excellent communication skills.
How To Stand Out From The Crowd (Desired Skills)
•            Prior experience delivering IT or data initiatives within federal, state, or local government environments
•            Proven ability to operate independently, take ownership of data pipeline architectures, and drive pr…