Quantitative Modeler

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Our client has been recognized as one of the fastest growing firms in the Washington, DC area. Their Advanced Analytics Practice provides cutting edge consulting to the public sector with an emphasis on projects that make a difference to Homeland Security every day. The group has a risk-based framework and approach, a team of top notch analytics professionals, comprehensive methodologies, and technical resources. The focus of their work combines business intelligence, risk management, and knowledge discovery.

They are seeking an experienced, detail-oriented statistician to join a small independent team supporting a government program office in Alexandria, VA. The successful candidate will be required to be a self-starter with demonstrated experience using SAS and SQL programming with strong experience developing, implementing, and maintaining predictive statistical models using modeling techniques including logistic regression, survival analysis, neural networks, and decision trees. Excellent interpersonal skills, and professionalism and self-awareness; as well as the ability to communicate comfortably with all levels of staff and management are a must. The candidate's primary duty will be the design and implementation of forecast models, decision trees and other statistical models.

Advanced Analytics
The Advanced Analytics team consists of professionals with experience in the areas of risk management, business and operational targeting processes, computational linguistics, machine learning, knowledge discovery, semantic engineering, probabilistic and statistical data mining. Advanced Analytics professionals use these skills to assess, analyze, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of targeting methods, operational control processes, offer recommendations to improve operations, and assist clients with enterprise risk and compliance activities.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and perform data analysis for Advanced Analytics programs utilizing SAS, Enterprise Guide, Data Step and Oracle SQL programming
• Experience planning and managing analytical projects
• Strong Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Prepare and support delivering analytical presentations
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Effectively communicating with internal teams and external clients to deliver analytical solutions and provide leadership through consulting
• Strong analytical skills coupled with business intelligence and database knowledge

• BA/BS degree or advanced degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or related analytical field of study
• 5 plus years professional experience consulting with clients to design and develop statistical models, segmentation schemes and data---driven analyses
• Strong capability to build models and utilize statistical methods including data imputation, time series, logistic regression, survival analysis, neural networks and other modeling techniques
• Expertise to perform exploratory data analysis and implement propensity models
• Create performance metrics and tracking processes to measure the effectiveness of the predictive modeling efforts
• Utilize data mining techniques and information retrieval methods to gather business intelligence
• Coordinate access and perform data transformation to support model development and validation
• Develop and optimize SQL queries to access source data from Oracle, Netezza, data files and other similar formats to facilitate statistical models and perform SAS programming
• Work in a collaborative manner with team members and customers to gather requirements, analyze data and interact with multiple internal data management groups to support data analysis and develop analytical processes for operations
• Strong time management skills and proven ability to work on time---sensitive deliverables
• Prior Federal consulting experience in statistics and related service area preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are critical
• A current Customs and Border Protection or Department of Homeland Security Background Investigation is strongly desired
• Willingness to travel and flexibility to commute to clients in the DC metro area as Needed