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Data Scientist
Office of Personnel Management · Posted 6 days ago
Hybrid District of Columbia, DC $144K – $187K Apply by Jun 19, 2026 Data Science Series INTJINTP DataHealthcare
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As a Data Scientist with the US Office of Personnel Management, Healthcare and Insurance, you will develop and apply statistical models, machine learning methods, risk indicators, anomaly detection, automation, and visual analytics to support oversight, program integrity, fraud/risk detection, and data-driven decisions for federal benefits programs.
What You'll Do
- →Develops statistical, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models to identify trends, anomalies, risks, and relationships in structured and unstructured data.
- →Applies predictive modeling, classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, simulation, optimization, and other quantitative methods.
- →Analyzes program, financial, claims, enrollment, healthcare, insurance, benefits, and operational data to support oversight and program integrity.
- →Develops risk indicators, analytical controls, and data-driven methods to detect improper payments, fraud, waste, abuse, and operational vulnerabilities.
- →Builds automated scripts, reproducible workflows, analytical pipelines, dashboards, and recurring data science products.
- →Uses tools such as Python, R, SAS, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms for data extraction, modeling, automation, visualization, and reporting.
- →Communicates methods, assumptions, limitations, findings, risks, and recommendations to program, compliance, legal, investigative, technical, and leadership stakeholders.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓This position is not eligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit This position has a basic education requirement listed under the Qualifications section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
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