Data Scientist/Business Intelligence Analyst

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.

Our HES team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer.

We are looking for a seasoned Data Scientist/BI Analyst who will be a key driver to make this happen.  We are seeking an analyst who is eager to use their advanced analytical and data transformation techniques, their visualization knowledge, and skills in Looker (or other related BI tools), SQL, and programming to rapidly turn data into insights and to develop practical tools and analyses that can help solve complex business problems, transforming volumes of data into actionable information.

You will be part of a highly skilled and collaborative team that uses human-centered design to implement modern, usable interfaces. The project goal is to achieve better health care, improving population health and lowering cost through enhancements in care. This team is creating a centralized and comprehensive mechanism for tracking and managing the existing and portfolio of systems and to provide a state-of-the-art platform for advanced querying, reporting and analytics.; working on high-impact government projects. We are seeking confident, self-motivated individuals to conduct this valuable work in a fully remote capacity within the USA. This position is open to a mid-level to principal professional depending on experience.

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain datasets from disparate data sources and provide analysis thereof using SQL and Looker, data processing may include NLP or Natural Language Processing.
• Ensuring 508 compliance with all AMS application designs and documentation in accordance with commitments to our SOW.
• Utilizing research and user-based approach to propose enhancements to the existing application to increase usability and usage of the application.
• Balance technical data architecture and data flows with end user UX best practices.
• Perform analysis of LEO / plans for natural language processing, prescriptive and descriptive analytics integration into system.
• Manage data visualization life cycles.
• Working in an Agile environment.
• Simplify complex ideas to stakeholders at various levels (e.g. explain technical solutions in a manner that matches the audience).
• Ability to tell stories with data, educate effectively, and instill confidence, motivating stakeholders to act on recommendations.
• Ability to influence business decisions and utilizing data at the leadership level.
• Strategic thinker with ability to provide solutions for business problems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and end-to-end quantitative thinking.
• Engage with Data Engineering to build out next-level data infrastructure.
• Working with the government stakeholders as well as other stakeholders to capture and document requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in technological or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 3+ years’ experience.
• 3 years’ experience working in statistics, programming, and modeling techniques (machine learning, classification, cluster analysis, data mining, databases, and visualization).
• 3 years of experience working with dataset parsing, dataset merging, dataset analysis, dataset synthesis.
• 1 year of experience working with databases (relational, OLAP, and NoSQL).
• Must be a U.S. citizen (required by federal government for the position).
• Candidate must have lived and worked in the United State for 3 of the last 5 years.
• Candidate must reside in the United States and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in the healthcare industry or in a consulting capacity.
• 3+ years of experience with creating visualizations and dashboards.
• Experience with backend SQL Server management.
• Strong understanding of relational database and data warehousing concepts (e.g. OLAP, dimensional modeling.
• Has extensive experience dashboarding (building out from scratch and adding new features).
• Any additional Data Science or Statistical Modeling experience is welcome
• Prior experience working remotely full-time.
• Experience with the following technologies: Jupyter, Spark, Apache Superset or other BI software, AWS cloud computing, Looker, Quicksight, or PowerBi.
• Federal Government contracting work experience.

Professional Skills:

• Intermediate skills with SQL and basic statistics.
• Strong technical communication skills; both written and verbal.
• Ability to understand and articulate the “big picture” and simplify complex ideas.
• Strong problem solving and structuring skills.