Senior Specialist, Federal Data Science

Senior Specialist, Federal Data Science

KPMG US McLean, VA

The KPMG Advisory practice is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for individuals to advance their careers and expertise with KPMG. Looking ahead, we anticipate continued evolution and success within the practice, fostering both personal and professional development, thereby creating new pathways for growth. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility, and leading market tools, we help our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Advisory. KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Specialist to join our Federal Advisory practice.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate multi-disciplinary / cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, design / develop machine learning, and data science solutions
• Utilize processes / best practices to plan, lead, and execute delivery of artificial intelligence engagements
• Work with clients to understand business requirements, design solutions utilizing data analytics solutions, and work with data engineers to develop / utilize ETL process to ingest structured / unstructured data
• Leverage a variety of data sources such as social media, internal / external documents, images, video, financial data, and operational data to develop cutting-edge data-driven products
• Perform explanatory data analysis, generate / test working hypotheses, prepare / analyze historical data, and identify data patterns
• Perform machine learning, natural language, and statistical analysis methods
• Contribute to developing dashboards, UI and interactive tools to support clients turn their data into actionable insights / reproducible reports

Qualifications:

• A minimum of three years of technical data science experience; U.S. Federal government consulting experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; Master's degree preferred
• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, R, Java, SQL, and their open-source packages / libraries
• Experience in developing Deep Learning models (e.g. CNN, Recurrent, etc.) and its applications (e.g. - object detection, text recognition, language modeling, etc.) and tools (e.g. - TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Fast.ai, etc.)
• Familiarity with big data open-source tools (e.g. - Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.) and open-source web frameworks / UI Platforms (e.g. - Flask, Shiny, Django, Dash)
• Experience leveraging cloud services in technical data environments or Cloud Certification (AWS Solution Architect, AWS Machine Learning, Google Data Engineering, Azure AI Engineering Associate, etc.) is a plus
• Ability to travel as required to support firm engagements
• Applicant must possess a U.S. Government Secret clearance

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