Data Scientist

Title: Data Scientist

The Work:  ICF is looking for an enthusiastic Data Scientist to join our team and help put smart data science at the heart of what we do. If you are Data Scientist interested in applying your expertise in text and data analytics in a consulting environment, then this may be the role for you.

Job Location: This position requires that the job be performed in the United States.  If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and also prohibits personal VPN connections. You may be asked to travel once a quarter to an office. Our core work hours are 10am - 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone.

What You Will Do:

• Create Dashboards using AWS QuickSight with both visuals (charts, graphs, etc...) as well as tables for end users to slice and dice data to gain insights to various business processes.
• Demo work in both small and large virtual settings with clients and end users to obtain feedback on enhancing dashboards to meet business requirements.
• Work within a SAFe scaled agile framework, collaborating with other data scientists, data engineers, quality engineers, business analyst and product owner to ensure solutions meet client needs with the highest quality.
• Create and maintain datasets from disparate data sources and provide analysis thereof using SQL and QuickSight.
• Balance technical data architecture and data flows with end user UX best practices.
• Ability to tell stories with data, educate effectively, and instill confidence, motivating stakeholders to act on recommendations.
• Engage with Data Engineering to build out next-level data infrastructure (DBT).
• Participate in code reviews in GitHub and knowledge sharing, specifically when building solutions within a specific business domain that other team members may not work in.
• Partner with customers, product owner, business analyst on gathering requirements or doing mockups of what a potential dashboard solution might look like.
• Collaborate with data scientists and data engineers in the team and across the company.

What You Will Bring With You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5 years’ excellent problem-solving skills and end-to-end quantitative thinking.
• 5 years’ experience in data & analytics projects using data applications to develop insights from large datasets; and handling large datasets.
• 2 years’ experience working with tools like JIRA, GitHub, and Confluence.
• 2 years’ experience with working on cloud platforms in AWS.
• 2 years’ strong understanding of relational database and data warehousing concepts (e.g. OLAP, dimensional modeling.
• 2 years’ experience with one or more statistical software and database management software packages (e.g. R, Python, and SAS).
• 2 years’ experience with one or more analytical and visualization software packages (such as QuickSight, PowerBI, Tableau and GIS software).
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years

What We Would Like You to Bring with You:

• Experience with data linking / advanced data management, combining data from different sources, automation, and deploying data science solutions at scale.
• Experience in data organization, cleaning, treating, etc., a knowledge of version control and reproducibility.

Professional Skills:

• Good leadership and team-working skills.
• Highly effective analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interface effectively at all levels of the business.
• Organized, detailed oriented and able to prioritize and multi-task.

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Working at ICF

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