Data Scientist

About

Join Sky Solutions, LLC, a dynamic Digital Transformation Firm in the Washington D.C. Metro Area specializing in Financial Services and Healthcare sectors. We focus on Digital Process Automation and Low-Code/No-Code Application Development. We are a certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) with Minority Owned certifications, committed to diversity and equal opportunity.

Job Title

Data Scientist

Duration

Long term

Location

Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid)

Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of Woodlawn, MD and be willing to work on-site at least 3 days a week.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the agency in creating a bias mitigation strategy and examine the Agency's race and ethnicity (R/E) data for consistency and completeness.
• Assess each of the identified legacy AI-systems for bias and develop the appropriate mitigation approach.
• Collaborate with the customer to remediate or rebuild the model for compliance.
• Compare the legacy and bias-mitigated models for performance, accuracy, and achievement of business objective.
• Refine and adjust the model until sufficient bias mitigation has been achieved and parity or acceptable performance with the legacy model has been achieved.
• Document findings and methods used, publish code to the repository, and prepare a standard operating procedure for future use cases.
• Present and communicate the intent of AI government policies and Executive Orders.
• Self-starter who can responsibly and independently advance work.
• Work with SSA leadership at all levels and present relevant information.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science.
• Minimum 8 Year(s) of Data Scientist experience.
• Experience with IBM AI Fairness 360 (AIF360).
• Experience with Machine Learning (Client).
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), spaCy and NLTK, as well as language models like BERT and RoBERTa.
• Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NLTK, Azure Client (optional), Amazon Web Services EC2.
• Proven experience analyzing data, including data quality assessment, data governance, and data protection.
• Familiarity with ethical considerations related to AI, such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation.
• Experience with extracting insights from large datasets to determine bias.
• Excellent analytical skills to identify potential risks and propose effective solutions.
• Clear communication skills to convey complex ethical and technical concepts to various partners.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Providing problem solving skills, proven communication in written and verbal formats to various audiences to include executive leadership.
• Demonstrated an understanding of challenges in building production-worthy AI systems.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript and experience with ES6+ features, such as classes, arrow functions.
• Demonstrating intimate understanding of privacy, data, and model governance activities including AI risks, oversight mechanisms, documentation, development processes.
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding AI, including privacy, ethics, liability, and intellectual property laws.
• Proven experience with the full system development lifecycle.
• Displaying an ability to manage senior stakeholders and client needs, including building relationships with clients, approaching client in an organized manner, and delivering clear requests for information, facilitating alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Displaying ability to research and analyze pertinent to the customer and technical matters.
• Demonstrating ability to contribute to a positive working environment by building relationships with team members.
• Collaborating with teams comprised of technical, data science, and business specialists.
• Collaborating with senior leaders and coordinating roll-out and change management for new processes.

Desired Skills

• Master's degree, Advanced Degree in Computer Science, other quantitative discipline.
• Proven experiences in AI ethics, governance, and compliance are a plus.
• Training and/or Certification in AI ethics or related fields is a plus.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with 13+ years of experience.

Equal Opportunity

Sky Solutions, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, valuing diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who share our vision and values.