Senior Data Scientist (Remote)

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Data Scientist to support the Department of Veterans Affais (VA) data Modernization initiative. This position will be fully remote located within the United States.

• Consult with internal clients and build data products / workflows to support critical operations
• Migrate and modernize clients’ workload from legacy environment to the cloud to realize quantifiable improvements
• Spearhead AI adoption with clients to drive business outcomes
• Create reference use cases with supporting tutorials, reference code, and training to drive the adoption of cloud tooling for concrete business results
• Host office hours to upskill clients 
• Develop, train, and deploy machine learning to solve complex business problems

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree  in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline,+15 years experience (or commensurate experience).
• Proficient in Python and advanced SQL for data analysis
• 2+ years’ experience performing work on leading cloud platforms such as Databricks, Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Experience in the end-end data science workflow, from identifying datasets to production, and associated tooling (NumPy, SciPy, MLFlow)
• Solid understanding of traditional machine learning toolboxes 
• Working knowledge of large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI workflow

• Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a suitability/public trust clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 5+ years data scientist experience shipping multiple products in operation
• 2+ year experience in building visualized insights (dashboards and reports) supporting operational needs
• Prior experience using R / Stata / SAS 
• Experience of refactoring of R / Stata / SAS codebase to Python
• Prior experience shipping products leveraging LLMs or AI agents