Senior Data Scientist

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Aptive Resources

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Defense • Logistics • Marketing

Aptive Resources is a management consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, specializing in providing innovative solutions to federal government agencies, particularly in veteran and civilian health sectors. With a strong focus on performance optimization, human capital, and data analytics, Aptive aims to improve the quality and accessibility of health care services for veterans and the general public. The company utilizes technology and human-centered services to bridge divides and enhance public service delivery for multiple agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Defense, and others.

📋 Description

• Lead technical support and advisory services for VHA AI Citizen Developers • Guide the design, development, and deployment of machine learning models and AI-driven solutions within the Veterans Health Administration ecosystem • Apply supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning techniques to build and validate predictive models and analytical pipelines for healthcare-specific use cases • Develop, maintain, and analyze synthetic data models and cohorts that protect Veteran data privacy • Enable model training, testing, and validation activities across VHA programs • Architect and execute data science workflows within cloud-based analytic environments such as AWS GovCloud and Microsoft Azure Government • Ensure scalability, security compliance, and alignment with VA data governance standards • Collaborate with VHA program offices, data engineers, and IT stakeholders to define requirements and interpret analytical results • Translate findings into strategic recommendations supporting AI/ML project objectives • Contribute to documentation, peer review, and continuous improvement of AI/ML methodologies, model performance metrics, and data quality standards • Ensure solutions meet federal regulatory requirements and VA enterprise AI policies • Mentor and guide citizen developers as they build and scale AI solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in data science, applied machine learning, or a closely related quantitative discipline • Demonstrated expertise in healthcare or life sciences data environments • Master's Degree (required) in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field from an accredited institution • Previous experience working with federal agencies, preferably the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or other federal healthcare clients such as CMS, NIH, DoD, or HHS • Familiarity with federal data governance and compliance frameworks • Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Position of Public Trust (Medium Background Investigation) or equivalent federal security clearance as required by the contract • Must be authorized to work in the United States; this position does not offer visa sponsorship • Demonstrated experience developing and analyzing healthcare-specific data models and patient cohorts • Familiarity with clinical data standards such as HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, CPT coding, and EHR-sourced datasets • Active clearance or PIV eligibility preferred • PhD preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Position of Public Trust (Medium Background Investigation) or equivalent federal security clearance as required by the contract • Equal opportunity employment • Talent Community notifications about new job opportunities, company news, and upcoming career events