Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SOSi is a leading technology and services integrator in the defense and government services industry. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and sustain a scalable data ecosystem that enhances interoperability and mission-driven analytics for a DoD customer.

Responsibilities

• The contractor shall design and implement advanced ML models and statistical methods to optimize forecasting, risk assessment, and decision-making processes
• The contractor shall conduct data provenance tracking, ensuring documentation of sources, transformations, and lineage for compliance with governance policies
• The contractor shall submit the Data Provenance & Lineage Report, summarizing transformation workflows, feature engineering processes, and audit compliance
• The contractor shall implement sprint-based Agile methodologies, ensuring rapid development cycles, backlog grooming, and alignment with mission requirements
• The contractor shall provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate Report before each analytics project, detailing expected Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) hours, compute costs, storage consumption, and infrastructure requirements
• The contractor shall conduct quarterly reviews to track cost efficiency, assess system performance, and optimize analytic workflows through the Quarterly Cost & Resource Utilization Report

Skills

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Master's degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or; nine (9) years of equivalent experience in AI/ML model development and deployment
• Personnel must have demonstrated experience in building and validating AI/ML models using Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn, integrating models into production environments, and optimizing performance for real-time analytics
• Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar distributed data processing frameworks is required
• Experience working with geospatial datasets and integrating AI/ML solutions into mission-critical applications
• Possess the knowledge and capability to develop advanced machine learning models and optimize analytic workflows for predictive and prescriptive intelligence
• Proficient in deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, data wrangling, and feature engineering
• Experience with data provenance tracking, model explainability, and bias mitigation in AI/ML applications is required
• Personnel must be able to translate operational challenges into analytic solutions, ensuring integration of structured, unstructured, and geospatial data
• Desirable but not required certifications include Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, or TensorFlow Developer Certification

Benefits

• Full remote flexibility.

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