Data Scientist
Location: All LocationsOcto, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.
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We are looking for a mid level Data Scientist to support an initiative within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role you will work across our client engagements, providing expertise in cloud computing, such as Azure Cloud including AML, ADF/Azure Cloud, Machine Learning, NLP, Bigg data procession, Depp learning, Azure/Databricks/Data Lake, ADF, Python (data wrangling, joins, cleaning, visualization, statistical learning), Azure SQL, Git, Apache Spark (cluster computing/managing). You will be responsible for solutioning and development of production-ready statistical and machine learning models that leverage healthcare, healthcare operations, and related datasets, as well as contribute to and produce technical and data process documentation.
Us...
We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client's missions.
Program Mission...
This program supports Veterans Affairs' strategic mission of furthering efforts to modernize its data analytics platform and enhance accessibility to enterprise data and reporting tools.
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Desired Experience and Skills...
Years of Experience: 5 years of recent professional experience in data science, data mining, data analysis, business process analysis, and/or healthcare analytics.
Education: .Bachelors degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, or Mathematics (or related field) required. Prefer M.S. and/or Ph.D.
Location: Remote within the United States.
Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.
Octo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.
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