Senior Quantitative Analyst Position

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Job Summary

Our firm is looking for an experienced Junior Data Scientist to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection in their efforts to protect the United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for data mining, data preparation, and reporting.
• Prepare and conduct analyses and studies, needs/gaps assessments.
• Applies knowledge to determine the accuracy and reasonableness of the data, recommendations, and solutions proposed.
• Documents and summarizes the results and develops and recommended solutions to the customer's problems.
• Prepares big data, implements data models developed by others, and provides database support for customer solutions.
• Key member of a data science project team, supporting data scientists or other consultants in the performance of assigned tasks.

Requirements

• Four (4) years relevant experience in applied research, big data analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, computer science, operations research or other closely related quantitative or mathematical discipline. At least two (2) years of experience in applied data science research or big data analytics.
• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Operations Research or other closely related scientific or technical discipline. A Master's degree may be substituted for up to two (2) years of relevant experience. A PhD may be substituted for experience.
• Knowledge of data mining methods, databases, data visualization, and machine learning.
• Experience with analytic techniques such as Anomaly detection, Clustering, and Time-series (e.g., ARIMA).
• Experience implementing NLP concepts including preprocessing (stemming, etc.), TF-IDF, Named Entity Recognition, and LLMs.
• Ability to communicate analysis techniques, concepts, and products.
• Ability to develop data-driven analysis and reports based on data visualizations and data models.
• Strong SQL skills, and ability to identify issues with data.
• Experience with Qlik.
• Experience with Tableau.
• Experience with PowerBI tools.
• Familiarity with Databricks or similar cloud-based distributed database technologies.
• Understanding of database and database design.
• Demonstrated experience with cleaning, managing, optimizing performance, and processing large volumes of data.
• Demonstrated experience within an AWS environment (AWS certifications preferred).
• Familiarity with industry best practices for software-hardware optimization when processing large sets of data.
• Ability to travel to and work on site at clients as needed.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Expertise with Qlik.
• Experience with machine learning, with statistical modeling, time-series forecasting and/or geospatial analytics.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark or other parallel storage/computing processes.

Why Apply?

Competitive salary and benefits

Important work: supporting Customs and Border Protection

Job stability: we hire for careers, not contracts

Remote work opportunities

People-focused culture: prioritize work-life balance and provide a positive, supportive work environment

Company stock ownership: all employees provided with shares each year

Our firm specializes in predictive analytics. We pride ourselves on creative, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity.

We believe in continuous learning and community. Each week, our entire company attends a 'Tech Talk' and each office location provides lunch. We have established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies that prioritize a healthy work-life balance.

Equal Opportunity Employer: qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.

Government contractor: many positions require US Citizenship.