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Data Scientist
Office of the Inspector General · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office whose mission is to promote excellence, integrity, and accountability throughout the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In our dynamic environment, the OIG conducts investigations, audits, evaluations, and inspections to enhance program effectiveness and efficiency and to detect and prevent waste, fraud, and mismanagement in DHS programs and operations.
What You'll Do
- →This announcement is for the DHS-Wide Career Expo in Buffalo, NY.
- →Applying descriptive statistics (e.g., counts, means, medians, standard deviations), inferential techniques (e.g., t-tests, chi-square tests) libraries or functions (e.g. in R or Python), or more advanced techniques (e.g., machine learning models, risk modeling) to address stakeholder questions and identify patterns, anomalies, or relationships in the data.
- →Building and updating dashboards, reports, and visualizations in tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
- →Automating routine manual tasks (e.g., parsing large data files, merging files, recurring data quality checks, scheduled refreshes) to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
- →Participating in discussions with auditors, investigators, inspectors, and other stakeholders to clarify data needs, understand business rules, refine analytical questions and translate stakeholder questions into concrete data tasks.
Requirements
- ✓Basic Requirements: A.
- ✓Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position.
- ✓The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
- ✓Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 89d6bb24-8a06-40b9-af76-b9e39db6dcba
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