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Perform advanced data analysis, modeling, and mining to support the USSOCOM POTFF program's mission. Develop dashboards, automate reporting, and collaborate with program staff to provide actionable insights and research-based decision support.
U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must possess an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance or be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance as required for contract performance. This position is pending upon contract award.
Why Maximus?
⚖️ Flexibility That Fits Your Life – Work/life balance support with flexibility designed to meet your personal and professional needs.
🏥 Robust Health & Insurance Benefits – Choose from a variety of Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription plans, plus a partially funded HSA. You’ll also have access to Life Insurance and discounts on Auto, Home, Renters, and Pet Insurance.
💰 Build Your Financial Future – Take advantage of our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match to help you plan for what's ahead.
🌴 Generous Time Away From Work – Recharge with PTO, paid holidays, extended sick leave, and Short and Long Term Disability coverage.
💙 Wellness Beyond the Workplace – Access resources that support your physical, emotional, and financial well-being through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
👏 Recognition That Matters – Celebrate achievements and recognize colleagues through our employee recognition platform.
🎓 Invest in Your Growth – Continue your education and professional development with Tuition Reimbursement opportunities.
🎁 Employee Discounts & Perks – Enjoy exclusive savings, special offers, and additional employee-only benefits.
🌿 Wellness Programs & Resources – Explore a variety of programs and tools designed to support your overall health and wellness.
📈 Career Development Opportunities – Enhance your skills through training programs, workshops, conferences, and ongoing learning opportunities.
📜 Licensure & Certification Support – Maximus covers the costs associated with renewing required licenses and certifications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with huge data sets.
- Apply data mining, NLP, and machine learning (both supervised and unsupervised) to improve relevance and personalization algorithms.
- Work side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and designers in designing experiments and minimum viable products.
- Discover data sources, get access to them, import them, clean them up, and make them “model-ready."
- Create and refine features from the underlying data.
- Run regular A/B tests, gather data, perform statistical analysis, draw conclusions on the impact of your optimizations and communicate results to peers and leaders.
- Explore new design or technology shifts in order to determine how they might connect with the customer benefits we wish to deliver.
- B.S. or B.A. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field required
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years using major machine learning/deep learning frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow and Keras) and algorithms (e.g., CNN, GAN, LSTM, RNN, XGBOOST).
- 5+ years of data engineering experience with modern big data analytics architectures (Hadoop, SQL, HIVE, Spark, Snowflake, etc.) on major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- 5+ years programming skill in Python, Scala, Julia.
- Working knowledge with modern cloud-based data storage and compute environments (e.g., AWS Sagemaker, Databricks in Azure, AI-platform in GCP, etc.).
- Experience deploying ML models into discovery/production environment to drive insights using MLOps a plus.
- Experience working in an agile delivery model a plus.
- Demonstrated leadership and self-direction. Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical partners.
- PowerBI experience a plus.
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