Machine Learning Engineer

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to lead an effort to bring its enterprise services into compliance with Federal data standards and formats. We are seeking analytical support to review compare and make recommendations for actions (data cleansing and transformation) as well as support data migration planning and coordination efforts. The right candidate will build a skills inventory which will eventually integrate with other Sponsors systems capturing both position skill requirements and competency levels as well as personnel skill and competencies. The project manager will manage priorities.

The team shall work closely with systems engineers database administrators HR and Talent management subject matter experts (SMEs) and project managers. The team shall perform a gap analysis of the following sub-tasks to include analyzing the current state creating a baseline identifying the gaps between what is known and what is needed and developing an action plan to mitigate the gaps.

a) Review the Sponsors analysis of data sets.

b) Compare data sets against information contained in various HR and Talent Sponsor systems.

c) Review and map the Sponsors knowledge skills and abilities (KSAs) data sets to a variety of data sets pulled from various sources and identify structural differences between the fields in the various data sets.

d) Review the Sponsors data cleansing status.

e) Preview mock cleansing to show previous and desired end states.

Responsibilities:

• Establish a repeatable process to periodically scrape and collect skills from a collection of Sponsor performance reviews.
• Comply with the Sponsors guidance and policies regarding the collection analysis and use of personal identifiable Information (PII).
• Create an access-controlled collection of disparate data sources.
• Create an access-controlled database to store collected jobs competencies KSAs and proficiency levels. The portable database will be transferrable to the process owner upon the completion of the implementation.
• Create a data migration plan to export collected skills and competencies into the Sponsors systems.
• Scrape collate and perform analysis of skill sets from open source commercially available and existing Sponsor databases and applications for addition to the skills repository.
• Scrape gather and analyze onboarding data to enrich the skill and competencies repository.
• Review and analyze all Sponsor service competency data for addition to the skill and competencies repository.
• Collaborate with other internal Sponsor offices to review analyze and update competency data from open source commercially available existing Sponsor databases and applications in addition to the skill and competencies repository.
• Evaluate the Sponsors current Chatbot and Machine Learning (ML) Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings and integration methods and provide a report on opportunities to integrate with the Sponsors systems.
• Evaluate and assess the Sponsors planned system restructuring and its data integration impacts with a new external service provider.
• Work with the Sponsors team supporting the system restructure to understand data standards required and the impact on the Sponsors OPM standardization efforts.
• Create a transition guide or Standard Operating Procesdures (SOPs) of activities.
• Create and maintain documentation for a Skills Taxonomy Gap Analysis Report to include an assessment of the current state proposed baseline of competencies and KSAs identification of missing data and an action plan for gap mitigation.
• Create and maintain documentation of methodologies and tools used to accomplish the Scope of Work (SOW).
• Create and maintain documentation related to system access to database(s) systems used and databases accessed to perform the work.
• Create and maintain a list of Internal and External Key Contacts to include names and contact information.
• Create and maintain documentation regarding concerns risks and issues regarding data storage tools and access.
• Create and maintain documentation regarding the status of deliverables and open actions

Required Skills:

1. Demonstrated experience designing creating tables views relationships and scripting (SQL) with database systems (e.g. Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL SQL NOSQL and/or structured and unstructured data).
2. Demonstrated experience with implementing and using extract transform and load (ETL) tools.
3. Demonstrated experience implementing using and creating Data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or data services.
4. Demonstrated experience with Python Java and Scala programming languages.
5. Demonstrated experience implementing using and creating data visualizations.
6. Demonstrated experience implementing using or creating ML/AI software tools and services.
7. Demonstrated experience using or creating Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based analytic tools and services.
8. Demonstrated experience using and implementing Apache Hadoop.

Desired Skills:

1. Demonstrated experience with using and creating Tableau visualizations.
2. Demonstrated experience with using and creating workspaces in Bluescape.
3. Demonstrated experience working with data services in the Sponsors cloud environment.
4. Demonstrated experience with the Sponsors HR data and database environment.
5. Demonstrated experience using SharePoint and adding and integrating content.
6. Demonstrated knowledge of Agile Project Management Methodology.