Senior Data Scientist

Job Title : Senior Data Scientist

Location: Woodlawn, MD, need locals, who can attend in person Interview

Visa: Any

Duration: Long term contract, 5+ years

Client: Leidos- SSA

Key Required Skills:

• Solid Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK and SPACy.

• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM)

• Excellent Communication skills

Position Description:

• Hands on experience in Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK, SPACy and LLMs

• Well versed in SQL and analyzing trends and transactional data.

• Understand real world challenges and develop automated data solutions

• Develop, test, and deploy new techniques for NLP understanding

• Scalable development/deployment of ML and Generative AI approaches (such as Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Train and optimize NLP/LLM models and create Python based pipelines

• Experience building cloud native solutions on AWS

• Determine the nature of analytic problems, evaluate options, and offer recommendations for resolution.

• Advise on the methods and data needed and/or available to evaluate the (intelligence or data) problem.

• Collaborate with data collectors and analysts to identify and close gaps on complex monitoring problems.

• Provide accurate, timely, complex, and sophisticated data analysis.

Skills Requirements:

Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with industry experience on Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK and SPACy, data science, and AI/ML/LLM engineering.

• 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**

• Solid Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python, NLP frameworks, SQL, Pandas, NLTK and SPACy.

• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLM)

• Evidence of true self-starter and operating independently.

• Fluency in Python Programming, version control and collaboration with GIT, standard Python packages (ex. Pandas, numpy, matplotlib) and ML frameworks

• Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, scikit-learn, NLTK, Azure ML (optional), Amazon Web Services EC2.

• Experience with scalable data engineering frameworks such as Apache Spark and orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, and/or experience with semantic search.

• Expert knowledge in conducting data analysis and applying advanced statistical concepts and ML methods to build, train, test, and evaluate a variety of supervised and unsupervised analytic models.

• Experience with ML model deployment and operations like DevOps, MLOps, LLMOps.

• Experience with NLP and Generative AI libraries like regular expressions (e.g., spacy, langchain), text annotation tools and semantic frameworks.

• Ability to clean and process large amounts of real-world data.

• Experience retrieving and manipulating data from a variety of data sources included DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop and flat files.

• Excellent Communication skills.

• Experience with database management systems (e.g., PostgresSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL, etc.)

• Excellent analytical skills to identify potential risks and propose effective solutions.

• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and proven communication in written and verbal formats to various audiences to include executive leadership.

How To Stand Out from The Crowd (Desired Skills)

• Prior experience with federal or state governments IT projects.

• Industry experience preferred

• Experience with, or the ability and willingness to learn distributed processing via the Hadoop ecosystem, i.e., Spark, Impala and Hive.

• Experience working in an analytical research environment.

• Experience in parallel processing such as GPU programming with CUDA

• Experience with Mathematica

• Experience using markup languages such as LaTeX, HTML, etc.

• Experience with Natural Language Processing for anomaly detection