Data Scientist (TS/SCI Poly)
Data and Analytics | Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
McLean, Virginia, United States
Position Summary
Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients’ success. You’ll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
Work You’ll Do
- Develop, implement, and maintain data pipelines to process and analyze large, complex datasets in support of the client mission.
- Apply advanced data science techniques—including supervised and unsupervised machine learning, spatial analysis, and time-series modeling—to extract actionable insights for mission-critical operations.
- Build, test, and optimize analytic methodologies and AI/ML solutions for integration into user-facing technical tools.
- Collaborate directly with client stakeholders and mission operations teams to understand requirements, present findings, and tailor analytic solutions to evolving needs.
- Document code, workflows, and analytic processes following best practices to ensure reproducibility, transparency, and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Prepare and deliver clear, concise technical briefings and presentations to audiences ranging from technical peers to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
- Respond rapidly to high-priority analytic requests, adapting to shifting mission priorities while maintaining high standards of technical rigor and communication.
The Team
Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.
Our AI & Data offering provides a full spectrum of solutions for designing, developing, and operating cutting-edge Data and AI platforms, products, insights, and services. Our offerings help clients innovate, enhance and operate their data, AI, and analytics capabilities, ensuring they can mature and scale effectively.
Qualifications
Required**: **
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Active TS/SCI Polygraph security clearance required
- 3+ years of relevant experience in data engineering and/or analytics roles supporting production data pipelines, reporting, and stakeholder-driven analysis.
- 2+ years of relevant experience of development experience with Python and SQL proficiency to ingest, clean, transform, and validate datasets; build/maintain ETL/ELT workflows; and troubleshoot data anomalies end-to-end.
- 2+ years of relevant experience designing, building, and maintaining dashboards, including creating reliable data sources/models and translating requirements into actionable visual insights.
- Ability to work onsite 100% of the time at the client site secure facility.
Preferred:
- Master's degree preferred.
- Professional Tableau and Python certifications preferred.
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Requisition code: 324739
Job ID 324739