Kajax Engineering, Inc. is looking to add to its data mining efforts in Clinton, Maryland. Knowledge/Education Requirements: Minimum Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or other mathematical discipline with extensive software development experience). Masters Degree or Ph.D. preferred. Position: Data Mining Engineer (DME) Duties and Responsibilities: Data Mining Engineers (DMEs) should be capable of developing new applications and/or integrating COTS Data Mining solutions for the detection of potential fraud, abuse, and other criminal actions, as well as, in support of counterintelligence data analysis. Must be able to manipulate and analyze Government data sets, in support of all stages of fraud, abuse, and criminal investigations, and in support of counterintelligence data analysis. Must be able to search available data sets from Government and commercial sources, select and then obtain data sources that will improve the yielding of Data Mining tools, analyze all obtained data sets to detect data quality defects. Must be able to utilize available tools to remedy defects and utilize scripting tools to perform custom data cleansing and transformations. The DMEs will perform interactive data analysis using the available tool suite. Must be able to prepare detailed reports, summary charts and graphs, as well as begin able to drill down into the data to identify anomalous features that may be indicative of fraudulent, abusive, or criminal activities. Must be able to identify Data Mining algorithms, specify data sets, and review Data Mining results for criminal indicators. Engineers must be able to work in a team environment with other engineers, analysts and users with AFOSI Data mining Analysts, investigators, and other end-users to establish and document requirements for new Data Mining capabilities. Minimum/General Experience: The DMEs will have five years relevant experience. Relevant experience will include the development of custom applications, particularly those that employ advanced data structures and algorithms. The DMEs will have a track record of successfully exploiting large, dirty, real-world data sets, particularly for fraud, criminal and counterintelligence applications. Each DME will have development or model-building expertise in two or more Data Mining techniques (e.g. Neural Nets, Rule Discovery, Decision Trees). Must have experience using or building data cleansing tools and appreciation of data quality issues and have knowledge of C or C++ in the UNIX environment, Perl, and Java. Also experience developing client applications for MS Windows 95/98, Windows NT (Visual C++ or J++), SQL, Visual Basic, and Delphi, and have a working knowledge of Excel or Lotus spreadsheets with formula and macro development, as well as database development knowledge utilizing Access. Must be familiar with Perl or Awk scripting or other comparable data manipulating, scripting language, as well as knowledge in one or more OLAP analysis tools, such as Business Objects Brio. Should be familiar with RDBMS application development for Sybase/Oracle/Informix and have experience utilizing one or more COTS Data Mining tools (e.g. Clementine, WizWhy, and SGI Mineset) and have knowledge of one or more Data Cleansing tools (e.g. Tillium, SSA), as well as experience with desktop publishing software using Microsoft Office software, including PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and Access using Windows 95/98/NT, but that will migrate to Windows 98/NT. http://www.keicorp.com U.S. citizenship is required for this position. Must be able to meet the requirements to obtain a security clearance. If interested, please forward a resume and cover letter to the following address By MS Word format email (preferred) or US Post: Teresa Ross Kajax Engineering Inc. Email: humanres@keicorp.com 1300 N. 17th Street Apt. #13 | phone: (703) 526-7199 Arlington, VA 22209 | fax: (703) 526-7198
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