Overview
On Site
$$55/hr on W2
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 30 day((s))
Skills
Python
SQL
Redshift
Shell Scripting
S3
Lambda
IAM
Power BI
EC2
pyspark
Powershell
Looker
learning
EMR
Athena
Kinesis
RDS
VPC
CloudWatch
SNS
SQS
Machine
CloudFront
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jupyter Notebooks
STATITICS
PROBABILITY
Route53
QuickSight
Job Details
Data Scientist (Skill level 4) for VDOT Professional Services Procurement Office(PSPO); Procurement knowledge / experience strongly preferred.
On-Site Work and Interview.
This Data Scientist position with the Professional Services Procurement Office will be an important member of the VDOT PSPO team. In this role, the Data Scientist collects and analyzes statistics and information from multiple sources to spot trends and to gain maximum insight that can give the company a competitive advantage and communicates informed conclusions and recommendations across an organization's leadership structure. Strategizes and identifies unique opportunities to locate and collect new data, explores and mines data from many angles, and determines what it means. Communicates data findings to both business and IT leaders to influence how an organization approaches and meets business challenges of an evolving customer base and changing marketplace, using strong business acumen. Finds and recommends new uses for existing data sources; designs, modifies, and builds new data processes; and builds large, complex data sets.
In addition to standard knowledge, skills and abilities for a Data Scientist, the successful candidate for this role will have experience and knowledge of procurement, preferably professional services procurement and the data related to this business need as well as procurement related reporting systems and technology.
Skills Specific to this Position:
- Provide expertise to agency on data-driven decision making and strategy.
- Provide expertise in specific areas, such as machine learning, predictive analytics using data and systems related to public procurement.
- Leading research projects, for advanced date mining, developing algorithms, or building data pipelines related to public procurement.
- Programming languages: SQL, Python, PySpark, Shell Scripting, PowerShell
- Data visualization: Tableau Desktop & Server, Power BI, Looker, Jupyter Notebooks
- Other frameworks: git, GitHub, SSH Secure Shell, Putty, XML, JSON, SQL Workbench
Big data platforms: Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Hive, HDFS, MapReduce, Azure Data Lake
- Cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EMR, SNS, IAM, Redshift, CloudWatch, SQS, Route53, CloudFront, Athena, Kinesis, QuickSight, Lambda.
- Statistical tools: Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL
| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | Consultant number of year's Experience, Last year Used | Consultant Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and probability | Required | 7 | ||
| Database management | Required | 7 | ||
| Machine learning and deep learning | Required | 7 | ||
| Data Visualization | Required | 7 | ||
| Cloud Computing | Required | 7 | ||
| Interpersonal Skills | Required | 7 | ||
| Predictive Analytics | Required | 7 | ||
| Data Cleansing and Transformation | Required | 7 | ||
| Cross Functional Collaboration | Required | 7 | ||
| Business Intelligence and Reporting | Required | 7 | ||
| Statistical Modeling | Required | 7 | ||
| Experience utilizing these skills in public sector procurement environment | Required | 7 |
| No. | Question |
|---|---|
| Question1 | Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment? |
| Question2 | Please list candidate's email address. |
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