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Senior Data Scientist (Fraud Detection and Investigative Analytics)

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Analytics
Security Clearance
Payments
Regulatory Compliance
Clustering
Ensemble
Collaboration
Data Quality
Dashboard
Leadership
Data Engineering
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Power BI
Reporting
Data Science
Machine Learning (ML)
Computer Science
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Regression Analysis
Statistical Models
Finance
Python
Pandas
Data Analysis
SQL
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Natural Language Processing
Presentations
Cloud Computing
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
Management
PPP
Network Analysis
Fraud
Analytical Skill
Online Training

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Senior Data Scientist (Fraud Detection and Investigative Analytics)

Location: Herndon, VA (Remote Work)

Must have an Public Trust Clearance

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Review, maintain, and extend all existing loan fraud indicators developed by TSD, and provide authoritative expertise on analytic method selection.
Design, develop, test, calibrate, and implement advanced statistical and machine learning models targeting financial fraud, improper payments, and non compliance within SBA programs.
Build and refine both supervised and unsupervised models, including regression, Bayesian, clustering, and ensemble approaches, and tune candidate models to determine best fit.
Perform data quality analysis on source tables to identify abnormalities and inconsistencies, and develop repeatable processes for combining and analyzing large relational, structured, and unstructured sources.
Collaborate directly with criminal investigators to determine and execute analytic strategies supporting loan fraud cases, adapting analysis as case needs shift and proactively surfacing data quality issues.
Adhere closely to the federal rules of criminal procedure governing protected information, including Rule 6(e).
Develop case leads for SBA OIG investigations from model outcomes.
Document all methodology, test models, and production models in a form that satisfies criminal evidentiary requirements.
Build visualizations and dashboards that convey methodological choices, outcomes, and predictive capability, and iterate them on end user feedback.
Deliver findings in multiple registers: data summaries and visualizations for investigative staff, executive summaries for OIG leadership.
Coordinate with the data engineering seat so the architecture supports machine learning efficiently.
Create programming and automation techniques that improve task efficiency using SharePoint, Python, Excel, Power BI, Power Apps, and similar tools.
Identify new business questions that expand the scope of analysis and reporting.

Requirements

Required:

Education

Master's, Ph.D., or doctorate level equivalent degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Alternatively, ten years of applied work experience in any of the same fields.

5+ years Designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced AI systems and predictive models, including both supervised and unsupervised models.
5+ years Developing analytic rules and models using leading edge analytic tools and best practices.
5+ years Developing regression, classification, and other statistical models to identify anomalies, patterns, and predictive variables.
3+ years Providing data support for criminal investigations into financial fraud or abuse of government funds.
3+ years Manipulating data in Python. Pandas is required.
3+ years Working in a modern cloud environment: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform. Certifications preferred.
2+ years Conducting advanced data analysis in SQL, specifically SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
2+ years Developing and scaling natural language processing solutions.
2+ years Presenting methods and findings to technical and non technical stakeholders, both orally and in written products and visualizations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Cloud certification in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
Direct experience with SBA loan programs, including 7(a), 504, EIDL, or PPP, or with comparable federal lending or grant fraud.
Entity resolution, record linkage, or graph and network analysis applied to fraud.
Experience producing analytic products that were used in a criminal referral or prosecution.
Model explainability practice such as SHAP or comparable feature attribution methods.

Benefits

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic Life
Health Saving Account
401K matching
Three weeks of PTO/Sick
11 Paid Holidays
Pre-Approved Online Training

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