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Data Scientist
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
This role requires paramount knowledge based on academic and experiential learning in the area of discipline of Data Science. The Data Scientist serves as a non-supervisory, technical expert in LGY's Business Insight and Data Solutions (BIDS) group ensuring authoritative data is prepared and available to stakeholders in support of data-informed decision making.
What You'll Do
- →Specific duties include: Addressing and integrating governance and administration data and architecture standardization.
- →Uncover and explain actionable insights from data by combining scientific method, math and statistics, specialized programming, advanced analytics, AI, and storytelling to major organizations, high-ranking government officials and key stakeholders within and outside the federal government.
- →Engages proactively with champions in existing boards, working groups, programs and committees on often sensitive enterprise issues, and identifies gaps in enterprise governance and program management processes that detract from efficiency and effectiveness of LGY.
- →Implement data policies that enable the effective management and use of data by planning, designing, and working with multiple groups to implement data policies into IT systems that enable the strategic use of data for decision making.
- →The incumbent will work in a team to undertake data governance and data management efforts.
- →Conducting research and analytical activities using the design of sample frames used to collect data; data quality/validity assessments; variance estimation and inference for sample surveys.
- →Serves as a technical expert with responsibility for the initiation, planning, implementation, controlling, modifying, and executing a variety of complex projects, including tasks such as the formulation of workload estimates for program segments, specification of the methodology to be used, preparation of appropriate specifications and procedures.
- →Provides proactive, well-planned communications of all types and media to program participants and leadership.
- →Analyzing data and results of executed research designs, and statistical and econometric models to ensure accuracy.
- →In particular, the incumbent should be well-versed in research design, modeling and execution of credit underwriting, appraisal and loan servicing policies.
- →Identifying new developments in statistical theory, research design, analytical and data collection techniques or new software and/or technologies that will continually improve a program/organization's analytical capability and ability to make data-driven policy decisions.
- →Promotion Potential: None Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday between 6:00 am - 6:00 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Available, as determined by the agency policy.
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Data Scientist; PD 41669A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements I-9 Acceptable Documents.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education to be credited towards qualifications.
- ✓Provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓All education claimed by applicants will be verified upon appointment.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript to receive credit.
Benefits
- ★Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more.
- ★Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b32114f2-1bd7-4f6e-b81d-13bb7b5f3e15
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