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Senior Data Scientist - Onsite - Woodlawn, MD in Woodlawn, Maryland at INFO ORIGIN INC

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INFO ORIGIN INC
Woodlawn, Maryland, 21207, United States
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Job Description

Role: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Woodlawn, MD
Work Mode: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Mode: Only Video
Key Required Skills
  • Strong practical experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Processing, and Information Extraction concepts including Named Entity Recognition, Blocking and Indexing, String Distance Metrics, TF-IDF/Cosine Similarity, Phonetics Encoding, Address Standardization
  • Solid Python, Regex, and SQL experience
  • Excellent Communication skills
Position Description
  • Develop Analytics Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain advanced data processing and entity resolution pipelines using Python and SQL on enterprise data platforms.
  • Data Hygiene & Management: Clean, transform, and manage large-scale datasets from diverse, complex sources, ensuring absolute data integrity, reliability, and security.
  • Performance Optimization: Optimize complex SQL queries and database operations to ensure efficient data access, processing, and scalability.
  • Engineering Standards: Actively participate in code reviews, enforce version control, and uphold best practices for code quality, reproducibility, and data privacy.
  • End-to-End Delivery: Support data validation, testing, deployment, and post-implementation monitoring in a fast-paced environment.
Detailed Skills Requirements
  • Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with experience in NLP, Text Processing, Information Extraction, Python, SQL, Regex and specialized libraries/frameworks.
  • Overall 10+ years’ experience in IT industry
  • **Master's and 10+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 12+ years of experience or 18+ years in lieu of a degree**
  • Strong practical experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Processing, and Information Extraction including:
  • Practical knowledge of Named Entity Recognition and Address Standardization to extract and clean unstructured text data.
  • Deep understanding of data matching strategies, including Blocking and Indexing, String Distance Metrics, and Phonetic Encoding.
  • Experience applying TD-IDF and Cosine Similarity for text comparisons and information retrieval.
  • Strong Python development skills for building analytics solutions and manipulating data.
  • Advanced SQL proficiency for complex data querying, optimization, and database operations.
  • Practical experience using Regex for advanced text processing, data cleansing, and pattern matching.
Familiarity with specialized libraries and frameworks including:
  • Linkage libraries such as Splink / FastLink, Dedupe, or recordlinkage
  • Core Python data science libraries, specifically spaCy for NLP tasks and Scikit-Learn for general machine learning and clustering
  • Familiarity with code reviews, version control, and maintaining data security and reproducibility standards.
  • Excellent communication skills.
How To Stand Out From The Crowd (Desired Skills)
  • Prior experience delivering IT or data initiatives within federal, state, or local government environments
  • Proven ability to operate independently, take ownership of data pipeline architectures, and drive projects from data discovery through to post-implementation.
  • Experience retrieving, migrating, and manipulating data from legacy and distributed systems, including PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and Hadoop, as well as unstructured flat files.
  • Experience utilizing Jenkins to automate continuous integration, testing, and deployment (CI/CD) for data validation pipelines.
  • Experience with pipeline automation tools to schedule and monitor complex data cleansing jobs.
  • Strong ability to translate complex algorithmic decisions (such as probabilistic match thresholds) into clear business logic for executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and proven verbal/written communication skills when collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Job Location

Woodlawn, Maryland, 21207, United States

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