Data Scientist - SME

Description

The company is a technology firm within global Accenture, serving US federal clients in defense, national security, public safety, civilian work and military health. About 13,000+ people work there.

This role supports mission-critical programs for the Intelligence Community and the wider national security sector. You will act as the technical lead for AI-driven solutions, data exploration and predictive analytics, turning large, complex datasets into intelligence that helps decision-makers at operational and strategic levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and rollout of advanced data science, analytics and machine learning solutions that support mission goals.
• Mine structured and unstructured data for patterns, trends, outliers and insights you can act on.
• Build predictive, classification, forecasting and optimization models for mission and business decisions.
• Use statistics, experiments and advanced analytical methods to tackle hard operational problems.
• Build and ship Generative AI tools, including large language models, prompt engineering and AI-powered analytics.
• Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and knowledge-driven analysis tools.
• Explore, clean and engineer data, then validate models and measure their performance.
• Produce visualizations, dashboards, reports and executive briefings for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work with data engineers, software developers, AI engineers and mission partners to put analytics into operation.
• Keep work compliant with data governance, model governance, Responsible AI principles and internal standards.
• Track model performance, fairness, explainability and accuracy across the whole analytics lifecycle.
• Advise leaders as the trusted subject matter expert on data science and advanced analytics efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, operations research, economics or another quantitative field; relevant experience may be accepted in place of the degree.
• 10+ years in data science, advanced analytics, statistical modeling or machine learning.
• A record of building and deploying predictive analytics and data-driven solutions in production.
• Strong skills in Python, R, SQL and data analysis methods.
• Hands-on work with statistics, forecasting, experiments and hypothesis tests.
• Experience with large, complex datasets drawn from several sources.
• Comfort with ML tooling such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch or similar.
• You have worked with Generative AI, large language models and AI-powered analytics.
• Solid grasp of data exploration, feature engineering, validation and model evaluation.
• Ability to explain complex findings clearly to executives, mission stakeholders and non-technical people.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Conditions

US citizenship and at least an active Top Secret clearance are required.

Base pay is $109,500 to $213,500 USD for roles in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia, as local law requires the company to post ranges for these locations.

Pay varies by office location, role, skill set and experience.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline.

The company works to build a culture where everyone is respected, feels they belong and has equal opportunity.

Benefits

• A broad range of benefits is offered.
• Hands-on experience, certifications and industry training to support your growth.