Junior Data Scientist

Job Description

Junior Data Scientist

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About the Role at Serco

At Serco, you will join a dynamic and collaborative work environment where team members contribute to innovative, high-impact projects for leading government clients. This role offers opportunities to solve complex challenges, improve processes, and utilize the latest technologies to deliver top-tier products and services. The positions on this contract are located both CONUS and OCONUS (Continental United States and Outside Continental United States) in support of the Army Sustainment Command (ASC).

As a Junior Data Scientist, you will play a key role in supporting the Army Sustainment Command (ASC).

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Perform advanced analysis and analytics to produce algorithms and/or business process recommendations.
• Develop and use data, algorithms, and analyses to identify and apply mechanisms to overcome impediments to materiel readiness and exploit opportunities to improve readiness through feasible, cost-effective software and business process improvements, changes, and interventions.
• Forecast and address complex analytical challenges, identifying challenges and opportunities within systems, developing comprehensive solutions, and incorporating these capabilities into software and workflows.
• Develop analytics and process solution sets, prioritizing efficient methods that are as simple as possible given current state-of-the-art practices, to provide appropriate, economics savings-driven answers.
• Regularly identify and communicate courses of actions required for program and project success, including appropriate reporting processes and applicable metrics to monitor and assess outcomes.
• Proactively identify mechanisms to improve mission performance.
• Use appropriate quantitative analytics techniques, including time series analysis and forecasting, advanced multivariate regression (including Probit and Logit Models), systems dynamics modeling, Bayesian inference procedures, minimax procedures (statistical), subjective probability utilization, expected utility analysis, operational risk analysis, and uncertainty evaluation.
• Use appropriate qualitative analytics techniques, including multi-criteria decision analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, causal mapping, formal game theory, minimax procedures (game theory), decision architecture, systems architecture analysis, organizational analysis and structural reform, supply chain analysis, and multinational best practices (military and industry) evaluation.
• Utilize logistics and agent-based modeling and simulation.
• Conduct business process analysis and optimization across the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Education, Personnel, Facilities, Policy (DOTMLPF-P) spectrum and beyond.
• Produce formal use cases, software program change requests, and other required documentation for technology insertion into related defense logistics support software.
• Interface and liaise with software program offices and contractors.
• Develop requirements for defense analytics software.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and create products for stakeholder communications and messaging.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• U.S. Citizenship
• An Active Secret Clearance or an interim Secret Clearance.
• A Bachelor’s degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, or other related business or quantitative discipline.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working directly on a data science team.
• Experience working with tools, including object-oriented programming (Python, Java), computational analysis tools (R, MATLAB), and associated data science libraries (scikit-learn).
• Experience creating meaningful data visualizations and interactive dashboards using platforms such as Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, RShiny, plotly, and d3.js to communicate findings and relate them back to how your insights create business impact.
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Superior communication skills, both oral and written.
• Understanding of data science methods related to data architecture, data munging, data and feature engineering, and predictive analytics.
• Experience with unstructured text and natural language processing.
• Experience using tools or languages like R, Python, SAS, or MATLAB, Anaconda, IBM Blue, and Oracle Big Data to analyze large data sets and develop automated analytics in making sense of data.
• Experience using machine learning, data mining, statistical networks, natural language processing, text analytics, and graph-based algorithms to analyze massive data sets.
• Experience developing software to generate reports and visualizations that summarize data sets and provide data-driven insights.
• Experience developing and implementing statistical, machine learning, and heuristic techniques to create descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, as well as developing statistical tests to make data-driven recommendations and decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Linking analytic and data visualization products to database connections.

Company Overview: Serco Inc.

Serco Inc. is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. With over 9,000 employees across 100+ sites in North America, Serco strives to make an impact daily in areas such as Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation. They help clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing customer satisfaction. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state, provincial, and local governments, and commercial clients. Serco is a place where you can count on making an impact because every contribution matters.

Serco is an equal opportunity employer, evaluating qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Total Rewards and Benefits

Serco’s Total Rewards package includes competitive pay, performance-based incentives, and benefits designed to promote well-being and work-life balance. Eligible employees gain access to a wide range of benefits. Program availability may vary based on factors such as contract type, location, hire date, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Benefits for full-time employees include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Robust vacation and sick leave benefits, and flexible work arrangements where permitted by role or contract
• 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages that can be purchased, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Employee Assistance Plan

For more details on Serco benefits, please visit: https://careers.serco-na.com/us/en/what-we-offer and https://careers.serco-na.com/us/en/about-us.

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position can be found at the top of the original posting. This range is a general guideline representing a good faith estimate across all experience levels. The actual base salary will be determined by various factors, including the scope of the role, relevant experience, job-related knowledge, education and training, key skills, and geographic market considerations. For roles available in multiple states, the range may vary to reflect differences in local labor markets. In addition to base salary, eligible positions may include other forms of compensation such as annual bonuses or long-term incentive opportunities.

Application Process & Important Notes

• If you require an accommodation with the application process, please email: careers@serco-na.com or call the HR Service Desk at 800-628-6458, option 1.
• Serco is unable to accept resumes by email due to EEOC/OFCCP compliance.
• Candidates may be asked to present proof of identity during the selection process (government-issued I.D. with photo, name, and address matching the application information). Serco will not retain/store this information.
• Serco does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies without being a contracted approved vendor.
• The application window for this position is for no more than 60 days. Candidates are encouraged to apply promptly, as the position may close earlier if filled or if application volume exceeds expectations.
• Please submit applications exclusively through Serco’s external (or internal) career site.
• For concerns with job posting compliance, please send an email to: careers@serco-na.com.

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