Data Scientist 4 (765167)

Company : Intellyk Inc

Title/Role: Data Scientist 4 
No. of Openings: 1
Start Date: 07/01/2025
End Date: 06/30/2026
Worksite Address: 1401 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 (onsite)
Agency Interview Type: In Person Only
Work Arrangement: Onsite

Complete Description:

This Data Scientist position with the Professional Services Procurement Office will be an important member of the VDOT PSPO team. In this role, the Data Scientist collects and analyzes statistics and information from multiple sources to spot trends and to gain maximum insight that can give the company a competitive advantage and communicates informed conclusions and recommendations across an organization's leadership structure. Strategizes and identifies unique opportunities to locate and collect new data, explores and mines data from many angles, and determines what it means. Communicates data findings to both business and IT leaders to influence how an organization approaches and meets business challenges of an evolving customer base and changing marketplace, using strong business acumen. Finds and recommends new uses for existing data sources; designs, modifies, and builds new data processes; and builds large, complex data sets.

In addition to standard knowledge, skills and abilities for a Data Scientist, the successful candidate for this role will have experience and knowledge of procurement, preferably professional services procurement and the data related to this business need as well as procurement related reporting systems and technology.

Skills Specific to this Position:

• Provide expertise to agency on data-driven decision making and strategy.
• Provide expertise in specific areas, such as machine learning, predictive analytics using data and systems related to public procurement.
• Leading research projects, for advanced date mining, developing algorithms, or building data pipelines related to public procurement.

Tools and Technologies:

• Programming languages: SQL, Python, PySpark, Shell Scripting, PowerShell
• Data visualization: Tableau Desktop & Server, Power BI, Looker, Jupyter Notebooks
• Other frameworks: git, GitHub, SSH Secure Shell, Putty, XML, JSON, SQL Workbench

· Big data platforms: Apache Spark, Spark SQL, Hive, HDFS, MapReduce, Azure Data Lake

• Cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, EMR, SNS, IAM, Redshift, CloudWatch, SQS, Route53, CloudFront, Athena, Kinesis, QuickSight, Lambda.
• Statistical tools: Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL

Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience

Statistics and probability
Required
7
Years

Database management
Required
7
Years

Machine learning and deep learning
Required
7
Years

Data Visualization
Required
7
Years

Cloud Computing
Required
7
Years

Interpersonal Skills
Required
7
Years

Predictive Analytics
Required
7
Years

Data Cleansing and Transformation
Required
7
Years

Cross Functional Collaboration
Required
7
Years

Business Intelligence and Reporting
Required
7
Years

Statistical Modeling
Required
7
Years

Experience utilizing these skills in public sector procurement environment
Required
7
Years

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