Senior Data Scientist – Fraud Detection, Investigative Analytics

🕒 July 30

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Node.Digital

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Node. Digital is a digital automation company that specializes in creating innovative digital solutions through automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning. The company focuses on enabling frictionless transactions and enhancing digital engagement with its offerings, which include digital apps, machine learning, cloud native applications, app modernization, and various digital transformation services. Node. Digital is dedicated to solving complex problems for its customers' missions by leveraging digital strategy, DevSecOps, cloud migration, robotic process automation (RPA), chatbots, and chat automation.

📋 Description

• Review, maintain, and extend all existing loan fraud indicators developed by TSD, and provide authoritative expertise on analytic method selection. • Design, develop, test, calibrate, and implement advanced statistical and machine learning models targeting financial fraud, improper payments, and non compliance within SBA programs. • Build and refine both supervised and unsupervised models, including regression, Bayesian, clustering, and ensemble approaches, and tune candidate models to determine best fit. • Perform data quality analysis on source tables to identify abnormalities and inconsistencies, and develop repeatable processes for combining and analyzing large relational, structured, and unstructured sources. • Collaborate directly with criminal investigators to determine and execute analytic strategies supporting loan fraud cases, adapting analysis as case needs shift and proactively surfacing data quality issues. • Adhere closely to the federal rules of criminal procedure governing protected information, including Rule 6(e). • Develop case leads for SBA OIG investigations from model outcomes. • Document all methodology, test models, and production models in a form that satisfies criminal evidentiary requirements. • Build visualizations and dashboards that convey methodological choices, outcomes, and predictive capability, and iterate them on end user feedback. • Deliver findings in multiple registers: data summaries and visualizations for investigative staff, executive summaries for OIG leadership. • Coordinate with the data engineering seat so the architecture supports machine learning efficiently. • Create programming and automation techniques that improve task efficiency using SharePoint, Python, Excel, Power BI, Power Apps, and similar tools. • Identify new business questions that expand the scope of analysis and reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's, Ph.D., or doctorate level equivalent degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or a related field. Alternatively, ten years of applied work experience in any of the same fields. • 5+ years Designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced AI systems and predictive models, including both supervised and unsupervised models. • 5+ years Developing analytic rules and models using leading edge analytic tools and best practices. • 5+ years Developing regression, classification, and other statistical models to identify anomalies, patterns, and predictive variables. • 3+ years Providing data support for criminal investigations into financial fraud or abuse of government funds. • 3+ years Manipulating data in Python. Pandas is required. • 3+ years Working in a modern cloud environment: Azure, AWS, or GCP. Certifications preferred. • 2+ years Conducting advanced data analysis in SQL, specifically SQL Server and PostgreSQL. • 2+ years Developing and scaling natural language processing solutions. • 2+ years Presenting methods and findings to technical and non technical stakeholders, both orally and in written products and visualizations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Basic Life • Health Saving Account • 401K matching • Three weeks of PTO/Sick • 11 Paid Holidays • Pre-Approved Online Training