Data Science Manager

Scope of Responsibilities

• Manage the teams of data scientists to execute predictive indicator development and configuration
• Partner with external client teams to understand their business problems and work with them to create data-driven solutions, to be hosted on the Govini Defense Software Application, Ark.ai
• Understand our data assets on a detailed level and train others; you are the data subject matter expert
• Constantly seek out new tools to deliver scope faster with higher quality
• Become an expert in the National Security domain, and speak from a position of authority to internal and external customers as it pertains to leveraging Govini data and analytics
• Hire the best talent and continuously train, coach, and mentor your team members to grow and perform at their highest level
• Apply advanced statistical, AI/ML, and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on indicators and models to help customers proactively manage risks and identify opportunities
• Constantly innovate and never settle for the status quo
• Participate in end-to-end software development, on an agile team in a scrum process, collaborating closely with fellow software, machine learning, data, and QA engineers

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required

• Master's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• Minimum of 5 years of direct, hands-on data science work, including machine learning model development, statistical analysis, indicator development, and related programming languages such as Python and R
• Minimum 2 years of people management, specifically running data science, software/data engineering, or other technical teams
• Experience in a customer-facing data science role as an individual contributor or manager
• SQL mastery
• Experience with Git source control management
• Experience developing and deploying business intelligence (BI) tools and insights to both internal and external customers
• Understanding and appreciation of the product management discipline; ideally, you have worked within a product organization in your past experience
• Strong communication skills, across all levels of the organization
• Experience with developing and maintaining Data Science solutions in AWS environments
• A burning desire to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and grow professionally

• Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience and interest in National Security
• Experience working on agile/scrum teams
• Experience with major NLP frameworks
• Familiarity with big data frameworks (e.g., HDFS, Spark) and AWS

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