Data Scientist

Equinox Consulting Partners is seeking a Data Scientist for a position with our client in Richmond, VA. The Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics (ODGA) is an exciting new agency under the Secretary of Administration. The agency s primary focus is Data Sharing and Data Governance. The agency manages the Commonwealth Data Trust to facilitate data sharing across the Commonwealth and its partners; and provides administrative support to the Commonwealth Data Commission, Executive Data Board, Data Governance Council, and Data Stewards Group. In addition, the Office of Data Governance and Analytics (ODGA) will provide guidance, support, oversight, and technical assistance to data trust member agencies and Commonwealth organizations in the implementation of data governance, sharing, security, and analytics projects. The successful candidate is comfortable working alone (the only data scientist), good at articulating what they need to get the job done, and someone who is comfortable speaking to leadership to take direction and explain their work/results.

Skills :

• Understand and translate business needs into data models supporting long-term ODGA solutions.
• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models along with corresponding metadata.
• Develop best practices for data standards and coding practices to ensure consistency in data models.
• Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.
• Examine new application design and recommend corrections if required.
• Develop tools for data science staff that enable them to derive actionable insights into business operations and performance measures from data sets.
• Develop successful prototypes and proofs of concept to improve system components and tools and to demonstrate new functions.
• Advise technical staff on data flow, processing issues, and other topics pertinent to the generation of data that meets business requirements.
• Collaborate effectively with partner agencies and business stakeholders in order to address data-related technical issues, clarify business requirements, and resolve conflicts and ambiguities.
• Serve as a data scientist resource to data trust member agencies and Commonwealth organizations regarding machine learning issues.
• Support data quality, integrity, security services in partner agencies as a core value