Data Scientist / Data Analyst - U.S. Government Agency

About the role

The Data Scientist / Data Analyst will support a U.S. Government Agency by providing advanced data science, data analytics, statistical analysis, dashboard development, visualization, fraud-risk analysis, and investigative analytical support. This role supports audits, inspections, evaluations, investigations, and other oversight activities through the analysis of structured and unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources. The position plays a key role in supporting oversight and investigative functions by developing defensible, repeatable, and mission-relevant analytical products. The Data Scientist / Data Analyst will support audit analytics, investigative analytics, fraud-risk detection and prevention activities, data engineering efforts, reporting requirements, process improvement initiatives, and analytical modernization efforts. This is a full-time role based in Washington, D.C. and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

• Support fraud-risk modeling, hotline and triage analytics, data governance, data quality improvement, process automation, and development of reusable analytical scripts, templates, and dashboards.
• Receive, review, and clarify task requests; define analytic objectives, data needs, assumptions, dependencies, and timelines; recommend appropriate analytical methods and levels of effort; and track status, milestones, deliverables, and risks.
• Collect data from government-furnished systems, exports, files, and approved external sources; validate file completeness, schema consistency, format compatibility, and integrity; and document chain of custody or receipt logs when required.
• Clean and normalize datasets; perform de-duplication, standardization, field harmonization, and date/time normalization; address missing values, outliers, malformed records, and join-key inconsistencies; and create data dictionaries and metadata summaries where needed.
• Merge and reconcile datasets from multiple sources, perform entity resolution and record linkage, and create analysis-ready datasets.
• Identify high-risk transactions, vendors, awards, payments, disbursements, travel, payroll, grants, loans, contracts, and other program activities; perform trend, variance, outlier, duplicate, gap, and exception analyses; and support fraud risk indicators and internal control assessments.
• Assist in the development of population analyses and sampling frames, identify relevant universes and stratification criteria, produce exception lists, and support reconciliations and completeness checks.
• Analyze financial records, payment streams, invoices, procurement transactions, expense records, and related datasets.
• Conduct link analysis among individuals, entities, accounts, devices, vendors, addresses, awards, and transactions; perform entity resolution using identifiers and matching techniques; and create relationship charts and investigative visualizations.
• Apply descriptive and inferential statistical methods; conduct classification, clustering, anomaly detection, forecasting, propensity and risk scoring, and other advanced analytical methods.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, reports, heat maps, trend charts, exception summaries, relationship diagrams, geospatial maps, timeline graphics, executive briefings, and technical appendices.
• Implement quality assurance and governance practices, maintain documentation supporting reproducibility and reviewability, and ensure compliance with applicable security and privacy requirements.
• Provide knowledge transfer, technical documentation, user guides, demonstrations, methodology briefings, and training support to government personnel.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Contractor personnel shall possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, information systems, ac

Additional Information

Dexis is a dynamic professional services firm dedicated to partnering with government and community leaders both in the U.S. and internationally to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world. At Dexis, you will experience a corporate culture of inclusiveness, respect, fairness, and trust. You will be given the means and mentorship needed to succeed, and your creativity will be rewarded.

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