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Job Description:

Novetta is currently seeking a Data Scientist to fill an immediate opening located in Honolulu, HI. The selected candidate should have extensive experience in a relative field such as quantitative methods, statistics, or analytic methodologies. This candidate may be required to deploy forward up to 10% of the time into operational areas or other remote sites.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible to support quantitative and qualitative integrated assessments of research questions across entire projects to assess the uncertainties (uncertainty includes work scope gaps, normal estimating, variability/error, and risk events) associated with integrated baseline activities and assists in the implementation of the risk mitigation actions
  • Qualitative simulations may be performed to forecast an accurate and realistic project schedule to anticipate potential areas of high risk and uncertainty
  • Perform advanced risk analysis across all government requirements, organizational missions, and activities
  • Explores data sets and verifies data quality to gain an understanding of relevant data, then identifies differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the machine learning model in an operational environment
  • Identify data sets of machine learning tests and use cases
  • Develops and tunes machine learning model's hyper parameters

Basic Qualifications:

  • 2+ years experience with deep learning frameworks, and extensive experience with programming languages such as Python, R, MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Tableau, Hadoop, Spark, and basic libraries (such as scikit-learn and pandas)
  • 2+ years experience in visualizing and manipulating big data sets, including leaflet, plotly, D3, and ggplot
  • 2+ years experience with Linux / Red Hat platforms, and proficient with OpenCV
  • 2+ years experience with data mining and statistical analysis

Desired Skills:

  • Excellent pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills
  • Streaming device metadata understanding: Understand how to log and capture streaming device metadata
  • Function independently and can present/defend/communicate the results and ideas to key decision makers
  • Modeling familiarity: Ability to understand how to optimize datasets for use in computational models
  • Network & Transport understanding: Should have an awareness of network architecture and ensuring low-latency database hookups and calls
  • Graph Indexing: Ability to develop logical connections between disparate data via indexing in an efficient manner, and building/understanding graph algorithms to maximize value of retained data
  • AWS familiarity: Ability to use and manage AWS instances as well as coding lambda functions (etc) to minimize expenditure while maximizing throughput

Security Clearance Requirements:

  • Active TS/SCI security clearance required
  • Willing to undergo polygraph examination

Eligibility Requirements

US Citizenship required.

Important information

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture Federal Services

Accenture Federal Services is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.An active security clearance or the ability to obtain one may be required for this role. Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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