Junior Data Scientist - Government & Public Services

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. From strategy to execution, this team delivers integrated, end-to-end support and advisory services covering valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, government operations modernization, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. Work alongside clients every step of the way, helping them navigate new challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and provide practical solutions at every stage of their journey—before, during, and after any major transformational projects or transactions.

Work You’ll Do

• Work on complex datasets; apply statistical and data mining techniques for data exploration and preparation.

• Perform data quality analysis, build models, and perform ground-truth comparisons to validate assumptions and outputs.

• Use data visualization to understand distributions and patterns and communicate findings to project leads and stakeholders.

• Write efficient, scalable, near production-ready code over large datasets.

• Maintain strong code documentation practices to enable collaboration and future development.

• Partner with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate business needs into data-driven solutions.

• Contribute to the team’s success through proactive execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Strategy offering architects bold strategies to achieve business and mission goals, enabling growth, competitive advantage, technology modernization, and continuous digital and AI transformation.

The Prism Products portfolio is a group of AI-powered population insight solutions, including HealthPrism, PeoplePrism, Candidate360, and GivePrism, that enable cross-sector clients to better understand and tailor services to the populations they serve.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Strong programming skills in Python (e.g., NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly) and SQL for analysis, wrangling, and database work.
• 2+ years' of advanced analytics and data wrangling.

Preferred:

• Strong fundamentals in statistical and ML algorithms.
• Familiarity with ML model deployment in a cloud environment.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and LLM applications such as RAG.
  Experience working in Google Cloud Platform 
• Strong problem-solving skills with emphasis on product development.

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