Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you're an experienced professional or a new graduate, you'll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call "Dewberry at Work," that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Dewberry has an exciting Data Scientist opportunity in our corporate headquarters located in Fairfax, VA to establish a new internal service to provide Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. The Data Scientist will serve as an expert for translating complex data into key strategy insights and valuable actions. The successful candidate will work with stakeholders, users, and a cross-functional team of collaborators to analyze and mine large transaction data sets on a daily basis to review data trends, and to forecast future outcomes. Candidate will use predictive modeling, modeling and simulation, data mining, statistical analysis, forecasting, econometrics and related data science tools and methods. Candidate will extract, prepare, and transform data from a SQL database to acquire daily and historical data and outcomes for analysis. The objective is to provide data-driven decisions to maximize process automation. The candidate will translate complex business problems, apply advanced modeling techniques, and undertake exploratory data analysis on data sets and present analytical insights through the design and delivery of actionable analytic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with our stakeholders to understand business needs and objectives, then design and deploy analytics solutions and models to solve relevant business issues using appropriate data science methods and tool.
• Discover business narratives told by the data and present them to stakeholders, and managers at various levels.
• Create business intelligence, dashboards, visualizations, and/or other advanced analytics reports to adequately tell the business narrative and offer recommendations that are practiced, actionable, and have material impact, in addition to being well-supported by analytical models and data.
• Leverage experience working with many types of data, including unstructured and structured, to support analytics.

Required Skills & Required Experience

Technical Qualifications:

• BS degree in a related scientific or engineering discipline and minimum of 10 years of progressive experience, or any equivalent combination of education, experience, training, and certifications.
• Training and experience in several key analytical topics, including optimization, time series analysis and forecasting, advanced regression techniques, model building, and simulation.
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience working in statistical analysis/data analytics, managing and/or coaching one or more analysts.
• Proven expertise with advanced analytics tools and programming languages such as Power BI, Tableau and SQL, and familiarity with data visualization tools and libraries.
• Hands-on experience with multivariate analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression, decision tree, cluster and factor analysis, time-series forecasting methods, SVM models, and neural nets.
• Must be experienced with data preparation and data munging, creating cohesive analytical datasets from multiple sources.

Strategy Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills to be able to work with clients, and strong ability to communicate analytical findings to client stakeholders.
• Solid project management methodology background, including schedule, scope, issue and risk management experience, change management, strategic planning and analysis.
• Present experience or proficiency with data related projects.
• Proficient analytical, problem solving and quality delivery experience.
• Experience working with MacAfee, Symantec………….
• Experience with AWS cloud development and solutions architecture

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Prior to a final offer of employment, the selected candidate will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry's background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

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