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Data Scientist
Citizenship and Immigration Services · Posted 17 days ago
About the Role
Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. As a Data Scientist, you will analyze data, build dashboards and models, apply statistical methods, validate data quality, optimize algorithms, and deliver insights that support evidence-based decisions for USCIS/HCT leadership.
What You'll Do
- →The responsibilities described are for the full performance level.
- →At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope performed with less independence, and limited complexity.
- →Support and co-lead the development, refinement, and implementation of data visualization products, including dashboards, graphical displays, and related tools, to ensure information is clear, accurate, verifiable, and responsive to business needs.
- →Collect, analyze, and validate datasets used for data visualization and reporting, identifying discrepancies, inconsistencies, or data quality issues and recommending corrective actions to improve the credibility of analytical products.
- →Research, analyze, compile, and interpret data from multiple sources using statistical software and analytical tools to perform analyses, generate graphics, compile statistics, and provide insights to leadership and stakeholders.
- →Apply critical thinking to research initiatives and data interpretation by evaluating data quality, assumptions, limitations, potential biases, and analytical results to support evidence-based decision-making.
- →Assess algorithmic performance and matching processes by investigating potential errors or biases, supporting validation frameworks, and applying analytical methods to improve data matching, reduce error rates, and report insights to leadership.
- →Evaluate statistical reporting methodologies and apply validation techniques, with oversight, to ensure analytical results are reliable, methodologically defensible, actionable, and aligned with organizational needs.
Requirements
- ✓Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen or U.S.
- ✓Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by U.S.
- ✓Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- ✓This residency requirement states that candidates must have, for three of the last five years immediately prior to applying for this position; (1) resided in the United States; OR (2) worked for the United States Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or Military capacity, OR (3) been a dependent of a U.S.
- ✓Federal or Military employee serving overseas.
- ✓Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.
- ✓COMBINING QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: If you do not qualify based on experience or education alone, you may be able to qualify based on a combination of your experience and education.
- ✓For more information on combining education and experience, visit the following website: General Schedule Qualification Standards.
- ✓Transcript required: If you don't submit a transcript, we will not use your education when deciding if you're qualified for the job.
- ✓For verification purposes, the transcript submitted must include your name and educational institution.
- ✓Basic Education Requirement: You must submit a copy of your college transcript(s) (unofficial is acceptable) to support the basic educational requirement or a list of coursework with hours completed.
- ✓For verification purposes, the transcript submitted must include your name and educational institution.
Benefits
- ★DHS offers competitive salaries and an attractive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and long-term care insurance; retirement plan; Thrift Savings Plan [similar to a 401(k)]; Flexible Spending Account; Employee Assistance Program; personal leave days; and paid federal holidays.
- ★Other benefits may include flexible work schedules; tuition reimbursement; transportation subsidies; uniform allowance; health and wellness programs; and fitness centers.
- ★DHS is committed to employee development and offers a variety of employee training and developmental opportunities.
- ★For more information, go to the DHS Careers website and select "Benefits." Disabled veteran leave will be available to any federal employee hired on or after November 5, 2016, who is a veteran with a service- connected disability rating of 30 percent or more.
Personality Fit
Job ID: cc576742-5bc8-47b5-a3ac-0447ed2efa84
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