Job description

Overview

Each day U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace. The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of solutions to promote efficient trade and travel. Further, effective solutions help CBP ensure the movement of people, capital, and products is legal, safe, and secure.

In response to this challenge, ManTech, as a trusted mission partner of CBP, seeks capable, qualified, and versatile data scientists to help lead the development and delivery of high-quality predictive modelling solutions. Successful applicants will serve as recognized subject matter experts in the application of quantitative methods, machine learning algorithms, and predictive models to address complex national and homeland security challenges. They will help our team to leverage large structured and unstructured datasets to develop and operationalize models, tools, and applications that drive optimized decision making. Project tasks include data collection, mining, data and text analytics, clustering analysis, pattern recognition and extraction, automated classification and categorization, and entity resolution to implement and enhance automated risk assessment. The products we develop provide actionable insight with real and immediate impact on the safety and security of the United States, its citizens, visitors, and economy.

The strongest applicants will offer multiple years of experience in highly dynamic, threat/risk driven operating environments. They will also have a proven track record of delivering production ready decision support tools and applications employed in the field and by mission-support entities. Further, highly competitive applicants will have a demonstrated capacity to: work closely and collaboratively with mission stakeholders; respond to emergent, mission-driven changes in priorities and expected outcomes; and, apply new and emerging tools and techniques. Within three - six months of joining the project, data scientists will be expected to:

• Perform hands-on data and threat/intel analysis leading to development of analytics solutions (e.g. predictive models, visual analytics reports), to support CBP users conduct law enforcement mission critical activities.
• Collaborate with mission stakeholders to define, frame, and scope mission challenges where big data interventions may offer important mitigations to project schedules and outcomes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in extracting, cleaning, and transforming CBP transactional and associated data sets within an identified problem space to build predictive models as well as develop appropriate supporting documentation.
• Leverage knowledge of a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques to develop, evaluate, and deploy new predictive analytical models that directly inform mission decisions.
• Utilize and explore variety of statistical/modeling tools and languages to compare and assess best performing Machine Learning results.

Job Type: Contract

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Data Scientist: 8 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Confidential (Required)

Work Location: Remote

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