Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ALEX – Alternative Experts, LLC is an ISO 9001:2015-certified Women Owned Small Business that provides core services to help government clients achieve mission-critical objectives. The company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support criminal investigations involving financial fraud or abuse through fraud identification, advanced data analysis, predictive modeling, and collaboration with investigators and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining fraud identification methods and communicating results to relevant stakeholders
- Data cleaning to ensure validity, completeness, and consistency
- Developing repeatable methods to efficiently analyze large datasets
- Working closely with criminal investigators to determine appropriate analytical strategies
- Developing and maintaining both unsupervised and supervised models, including the use of regression, Bayesian, clustering, and ensemble algorithms
- Implementing and tuning test models to determine best fit
Skills
- Five (5) or more years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced AI systems and predictive models, including both supervised and unsupervised models
- Five (5) or more years of hands-on experience in developing analytic rules and models using leading edge analytic tools and best practices
- Five (5) or more years of hands-on experience in developing regression, classification, and other statistical models to identify anomalies, patterns, and predictive variables
- Three (3) or more years of hands-on experience in providing data support for criminal investigations into financial fraud or abuse of government funds
- Three (3) or more years of hands-on experience in manipulating data in Python. (Pandas required.)
- Three (3) or more years of hands-on experience in working in the modern cloud environment (Azure/AWS/GCP). Certifications preferred
- Two (2) or more years of hands-on experience in conducting advanced data analysis in SQL (SQL Server and PostgreSQL)
- Two (2) or more years of hands-on experience in developing and scaling NLP solutions
- Two (2) or more years of hands-on experience in presenting methods and findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders, orally and in written products/visualizations
- Masters, Ph. D., or doctorate-level equivalent degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or a related field; OR 10 years of applied work experience in any of the same fields
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
- Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
- AWS Machine Learning Certification
- Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Comparable cloud-based AI/ML certifications
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