Lead Data Scientist GS-1560-13 (93934)

Redstone Arsenal, ALEngineering and Support Center, Huntsville (HNC)93934
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Announcement Type

TARP - Direct-Hire Authority (DHA)

Position Type

Permanent

USACE Organization

Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville (HNC)

Locations (City, State)

Redstone Arsenal, AL

Position Overview/Duties

Responsibilities/Duties:
•    Leads and train a team of Data Scientists. Provides advice and guidance concerning policies, work methods, and milestones for analytical problem-solving methods. 
•    Ensures the command’s strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, workplans and work products.
•    Analyzes complex data elements and systems, data flows, dependencies and relationships to develop and recommend new methodologies. 
•    Develops processes to manage data sets and identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality. 
•    Extracts relevant information from historical datasets; identifies, creates, and employs the appropriate statistical, algorithmic, mining, forecasting, predictive, and visualization techniques; evaluates information in relation to its impact on decision-making.
•    Assesses data sources to determine types of data available and how to import data into systems and models to reduce or eliminate manual reporting and/or processing requirements.
•    Prepares presentations, writes reports, builds data analytics and visualization products for data-driven solutions and decision making.  
 

Other Conditions and Requirements

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD, Section 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Organization: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Business Management Division, Directorate of Resource Management

Duty Location: U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, 300 Secured Gateway, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35808. Remote work may be authorized for this position.

Minimum Education Requirement: Please refer to the Office of Personnel Management website at the following links for information regarding basic qualification requirements https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/data-science-series-1560/ 

Minimum Experience Requirement: Specialized Experience: Leading teams of people, projects and processes using data science and analytics. Technical expert and application of data science techniques. Utilizes tools such as Microsoft Power Automate, Power BI, Tableau, Python, Structured Query Language (SQL), SAS, Oracle, programming skills, machine learning methods, data architecture, data visualization, modeling and simulations, and business and resource analysis.  

Conditions of Employment/Other Requirements:

  • Applications must be submitted after 12:01 AM (EST) of the posted Job Posting Open Date and before 11:59 PM (EST) of the posted Job Posting Close Date to receive consideration.   
  • Must meet suitability for Federal employment
  • Will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship
  • Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration
  • Will be required to serve a 2-year probationary period if applicable
  • This is a Career Program (CP) 36 position
  • Start Date: On or about 21 October 2024
  • Travel Requirement: 10% Temporary Duty Travel required
  • Telework Eligible: Yes, as determined by agency policy.
  • Incentive: May be authorized subject to budget availability: 
    •    Recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized or
    •    Advanced Annual Leave may be authorized or
    •    Student loan repayment incentive may be authorized

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy: The United States government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service or other non-merit factor

To learn more, please visit the Office of Equal Opportunity (https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/federal-employees-job-applicants).

Qualifications

Candidates will be evaluated IAW OPM Requirements: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/

Reasonable Accommodation

Reasonable accommodation is available to qualified employees with disabilities. You can request a reasonable accommodation at any time during the application process, hiring process or while on the job. Requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.