Data Analytics - Project Lead

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Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!  

The Work:

• Maintain the quality and compliance of an organization's data assets.
• Design and implement data strategies, ensuring data integrity and enforcing governance policies.
• Establish protocols to handle data, safeguard sensitive information, and optimize data usage within the organization.
• Design and advise on data quality rules and set up effective data compliance policies.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in a role as a data scientist or analyst, ideally in an IT/analyst role
• Experience performing quantitative and analytic abilities to analyze and validate data
• Prior experience and methodological experience in some of the following areas:
  • Relationships and discovery (correlating, enriching and prioritizing data about activity among actors, devices or facilities to enable the discovery of structure, roles, key relationships and targets)
  • Situational awareness (unifying data into a single context, allowing the current situation to be accurately and quickly understood)
  • Systems modeling (building a computational analog of a real-world system – political, military, economic, social or technical – to understand how it operates, what it is capable of, and how it may react to shocks)
  • Business analytics (supporting data-driven decisions about how we can improve business of intelligence)
• Experience working with appropriate analytic methods and methodological tools in two or more of the following areas:
  • Applied mathematics (e.g. probability and statistics, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations, stochastic processes, graph theory)
  • Computer programming (e.g. scripting, data parsing/ETL, artificial intelligence, machine learning, math/statistics packages, natural language processing, software versioning, distributed computing)
  • Visualization (e.g. dashboard creation, network analysis, GIS/geospatial analysis, telemetry analysis
• Working knowledge of research designs, collection methods, capabilities, and tasking process
• Familiarity with project management concepts and principles
• Intellectual curiosity; creativity and innovation to go beyond current tools to deliver the best solution to complex problems
• Ability to leverage multiple data management tools to organize relevant information and make decisions

Bonus points if you have:

• Knowledge of working with federal clients
• Public Trust Clearance

Eligibility Requirements: 

US Citizenship required

 

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Vermont, and the District of Columbia is:$126,300—$243,100 USD   What We Believe As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwaver