Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Makpar is a comprehensive professional and technical solutions provider for the Federal government. The Senior Data Scientist will support the Safeguards risk-based review selection process by maintaining and enhancing risk models and analytics to identify at-risk agency partners.
Responsibilities
- Build enhancements and maintain risk models supporting review selection
- Maintain data fields, code, scripts, formulas, and macros used to analyze review findings and risk model outputs
- Support Health Score calculations and weighted risk factor evaluations
- Aggregate and evaluate data to identify at-risk agency partners
- Manually validate automated risk rankings and data outputs
- Develop and maintain risk dashboards showing findings, risk levels, rankings, remediation status, and historical trends
- Prepare materials for quarterly risk team meetings and support action-item tracking
- Present analytic results to management and non-technical stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, mathematics, engineering, finance, economics, data science, or related discipline
- Demonstrated experience using scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract or extrapolate insights from structured and unstructured data
- Demonstrated experience applying data insights across application domains
- Demonstrated experience using automation and scripting techniques
- Demonstrated experience presenting results to management and non-technical personnel
- Specialized experience with Tableau, R programming, Python 3, and VBA
- Ability to complete IRS suitability / staff-like access requirements
- Experience with risk models, scoring models, health scoring, compliance analytics, or audit analytics
- Experience supporting cybersecurity, GRC, FISMA, NIST, or federal compliance programs
- Experience building dashboards for executive or government stakeholder decision-making
- Experience validating automated outputs against manual review or SME judgment
- Experience with Excel macros, data quality controls, and traceability of formulas
Benefits
- A great benefits package
- Excellent training and career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedules
- A generous compensation package
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