Listing Description
As a Data Scientist at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) within the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), within the Office of the Chief Data Officer Directorate, you will play a pivotal role in utilizing your advanced technical expertise to address intricate data-related issues. This will involve crafting inventive solutions with a significant national reach, encompassing the creation and application of bespoke algorithms, methodologies, and strategies for data collection, management, and analysis. Your contributions will be vital in developing highly efficient solutions that bolster essential DHS initiatives.
As an employee in the Developmental Track, you will continually and proactively participate in learning activities to enhance and apply your developing expertise to perform a range of routine tasks, including:
- Building an understanding for and applying knowledge to develop data management standards, policies, and procedures and facilitate and implement effective data mining and warehousing programs for collecting, cleaning, converting and standardizing complex data for analysis.
- Supporting hypothesis testing using statistical processes, and applying quantitative techniques (e.g., descriptive and inferential statistics, sampling, experimental design) to assess the validity of source data and develop strategic insights from large data sets.
- Engaging systems analysts, engineers, and programmers to aid in the design of applications for integrating data from several disparate sources and using different technologies to provide a unified data view.
- Using a variety of tools, including Google Analytics, to monitor web data, log data, and threat data analytics, to provide a managed flow of relevant information based on cybersecurity mission requirements.
- Supporting teams to analyze and define data requirements and specifications for using various tools and methodologies (e.g., Statistical Package for Social Sciences [SPSS], Statistical Analysis System [SAS], R Analytics, Statistics and Data [STATA]) to discover new patterns and behaviors and provide DHS Headquarters (HQ) and/or Component stakeholders actionable recommendations.
- Planning for anticipated changes in enterprise data capacity requirements and effectively allocating storage capacity in the design of new data management systems, technologies, and architectures.
- Providing support for collecting metrics and trending data using enterprise data management systems (e.g., SPLUNK) and cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS).
- Using data visualization tools (e.g., R, Tableau, Flare, Google Visualization Application Programming Interface [API], RGIS) to design charts and exhibit graphic representations for the purposes of providing actionable recommendations to critical leadership officials and stakeholders.
- Learning and using various tools (e.g., SPSS, SAS, R, STATA) and methodologies for analyzing and interpreting complex data to discover new patterns and behaviors and provide usable information to decision makers and other users.
- Building an understanding for the field of data science, mathematics, and statistics to enhance and keep expertise fresh.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen or national.
- You must be 18 years of age.
- Must be registered for the Selective Service (if you are a male).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Must be able to submit to a drug test and receive a negative result.
- Must be able to comply with ethics and standards of conduct requirements, including completing any applicable financial disclosure.
- May be required to serve a 3 year probationary period.
- Telework/Remote work may be available for this position.
Qualifications
- Have 2+ years of cybersecurity work experience
- Are capable of serving as a cybersecurity professional with some experience who applies still-burgeoning technical expertise to perform routine work with significant supervision and clear guidance.
- Examine data with the goal of providing new insight for the purposes of cybersecurity.
- Design and implement custom algorithms, flow processes and layouts for complex, enterprise-scale data sets used for modeling, data analytics, and research purposes.
- Apply understanding of cybersecurity field to inform analytical methodologies and algorithms selected for implementation.
- Design, build, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools for data trend and pattern analysis of cyber data.
- Apply knowledge of statistics and mathematical theory to develop and integrate new and emerging technologies, such as machine learning and deep learning concepts and techniques.
- Communicate insights gained to mission user.
To learn more about DHS Cybersecurity Service career tracks and levels, visit our application portal.
This position is focused on Data Science.
DHS Cybersecurity Service jobs are structured cybersecurity specializations - called technical capabilities. To learn more about technical capabilities, visit our application portal.
Education
Degrees are not required for jobs in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, but DHS is interested in your level of education and the topics you studied. As you submit initial application information, you will be asked questions about your education.
Listing Details
- Salary: $80000 - $105000
- Citizenship: Not Provided
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: Not Provided
- Telework: Not Provided