Data Scientist Consultant with Active Secret Clearance

Our Deloitte Human Capital team helps organizations create value through people performance. We help clients reimagine work, the workforce, and the workplace across the enterprise, and transform HR functions with artificial intelligence and emerging technology. In today’s rapidly changing environment, this role supports efforts that help clients improve workforce access, development, motivation, organization, and culture to enable performance.

Work you'll do

As an Analytics & Insights Engineer II on the team, you will be responsible for:

• Partner with client-aligned and Core Modeling teams to understand incoming data, business questions, and data-pipeline requirements.
• Build, test, and maintain data pipelines that collect, clean, transform, and prepare data for analysis and model development.
• Develop and evaluate statistical, classical regression, and machine learning models supporting workforce forecasting.
• Applying feature engineering, regression analysis, model calibration, and diagnostic testing to create transparent and explainable analytic outputs.
• Capturing and analyzing metrics for data quantities and transfer timelines, system errors, failures, and downtime to support system integrity.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationship
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

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 Insights, Innovation, & Operate offering provides key aspects of our clients’ businesses with technology, data, and deep technical and human capabilities. Innovates and delivers creative, industry-centric solutions that streamline work and accelerate speed-to-value.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Active Secret Clearance 
• 2+ years of experience using Python for statistical analysis and model development, and SQL to query, clean, and prepare data
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred:

• Technical experience with  Python and Machine Learning
• Experience testing artificial intelligence (AI) and data products