Data Scientist, Python and AWS
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Peregrine AdvisorsGovernment data analytics
This is a remote positionFull-TimeMiddle
Salary78,000 - 147,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years of applied data science or statistical modeling experience
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLMachine LearningMicrosoft ExcelPowerPoint
Requirements
- Have 4+ years of applied data science or statistical modeling experience.
- Hold a bachelor's degree.
- Have a strong working command of Python and SQL.
- Have working knowledge of statistics, machine learning, and model validation.
- Be familiar with cloud-based data and analytics services on AWS.
- Be able to carry an analysis from question to defensible, documented answer.
- Be proficient in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Apply statistics and machine learning to real operational data.
- Use version control, reproducible pipelines, tested transformations, and documentation.
- Communicate technical results clearly to the people who depend on them.
- Meet the initial engagement requirement of U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.
- Preferred: hold a master's degree in a relevant field.
- Preferred: have experience with Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3 with Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, or Trino.
- Preferred: have experience applying large language models to analytical work, such as Amazon Bedrock.
- Preferred: have data-visualization craft, including chart design, dashboards, and charting libraries.
- Preferred: have federal information technology experience or familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling.
Responsibilities
- Frame analytical questions with mission owners and turn them into testable designs.
- Build analyses and models in Python and SQL on cloud-native data platforms hosted in AWS.
- Develop forecasting, classification, risk-scoring, and anomaly-detection models suited to the question and data.
- Design model evaluations with baselines, validation designs, error analysis, documented limits, and verifiable results.
- Build analytical features and datasets from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including document-heavy corpora.
- Use Amazon Textract and foundation models through Amazon Bedrock to extract and analyze text.
- Turn one-off notebooks into repeatable, reviewed analytical pipelines.
- Present findings to decision-makers in plain language with clear visualizations.
- Use AI-assisted analysis, language models, and coding assistants across the analytical lifecycle.
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