Senior Data Scientist

About Us

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that works across government, partnering with our clients to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans, ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veterans to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that courageously equip Federal agencies with solutions to transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.

Please explore this opportunity to join us as a Senior Data Scientist for our government client in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. 

Responsibilities: 

• Corresponding with a team of engineers to perform data analysis, modeling, and research to understand and interpret data predictions, relationships, and trends 
• Working with end users to help educate them in SQL, Python, and/or R, preferably with Apache Spark 
• Create queries, reports, and technical presentations 
• Identifying patterns in data in complex data sets 
• Comprehension of the latest AI/ML technology trends, developments and best practices to define new process improvement opportunities 
• Ensuring successful completion of work and timeliness of deliverables 
• Providing status updates to senior members of the team and working with management to identify and prioritize business needs. 
• Owns vendor point of contact and vendor partner program responsibilities with one or more vendors relevant to your subject matter expertise. 
• Builds/Implements AI/ML models/agents, etc. of varying types primarily on Azure and/or AWS. This may include supporting AI/ML technologies as well e.g. retrieval augmented generation (RAG). 
• Problem solver willing to consider/create out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems for our clients to meet their business objectives. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, business analytics or related field 
• 7 years of experience in data analysis, data modeling, data profiling, data research, and data management 
• Extensive experience working with data in SQL, Python, and/or R 
• Experience and understanding in a wide variety of AI/ML technologies, open source models, and algorithms. 
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills 
• Desire to dig in, learn and contribute to new challenges regardless of technology boundaries or traditional role definitions. 
• Experience with AI/ML on AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud 
• Experience with frontier generative models available on a myriad of cloud services 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

Desired Skills: 

• Experience with Github 
• Experience with migrating SAS code to Python/R/Spark preferred 
• Knowledge of broad reaching technology concepts including Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) 

eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by your manager. 

Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 5% per year. 

Benefits: 

We offer a highly competitive salary, full healthcare benefits and a flexible leave policy.
 

Equal Employment Opportunity: 

eSimplicity is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.