Onsite Data Scientist/Power BI Developer

Thompson Gray, Inc. is seeking an Onsite Data Scientist/Power BI Developer for a Department of Defense (DoD) project office integrating resource management data and systems (finance, acquisition, manpower) at Fort Eustis in Newport News, VA.

Job Description: The Onsite DS/Power BI Developer is required in-office at Fort Eustis, VA three days per week (Tu, Wed, Thu). The Onsite DS/PBI Dev is responsible for collaborating with business analysts and IT specialists to build a data analytics environment using Microsoft's Power Platform and Azure cloud tools. The DS/PBI Dev will architect, build and support an environment populated by 50+ data sources, 300+ data tables and 10,000+ data points across 7-8 different lines of business (budgeting/financial, contracts/acquisition, manpower/human resources, etc.). New projects require all phase of requirements gathering and documentation, establishing data connections to new source data (PBI Connectors, APIs, Azure SQL, spreadsheets, etc.), data cleansing and normalization, data modeling and data architecture into a unified, cross-domain, integrated environment. Later phases include building advanced data analytics and dashboards from the normalized data using Power BI. The Data Scientist will work closely with our technical and functional staff and the client user community to establish detailed requirements for data management and visualization.

All potential candidates must be U.S. citizens, with no exceptions.

Responsibilities include:

• Participate in all aspects of the application lifecycle: requirements analysis and definition, data design, data architecture and integration as well as data visualization and advanced analytics
• Produce and support a Microsoft tools cloud-based PaaS data architecture and environment
• Produce data models based on business requirements (star schemas, snowflake schemas, UML diagrams, relational database design, etc.) per the Kimball Group's Dimensional Modeling Techniques, standards of 3NF (third normal form), etc.
• Produce a data analytics platform for data reporting and visualization across multiple integrated lines of business with dynamic and flexible ad-hoc reporting, historical trending, predictive analytics, and others
• Analyze large, complex systems and data to identify semantic gaps, performance bottlenecks, and data errors as well as uncover opportunities to improve efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to derive hierarchical relationships from undocumented, flat data
• Lead efforts to design, implement, and support enterprise scale data analytics

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship
• BS degree in Data Science, Computer Science or related field/equivalent experience
• Knowledge of Data Science and Data Analytics concepts and tools
• Knowledge of Data Management and Data Architecture concepts
• Experience in creation of data models

Desired Skills:

• Experience with DoD and knowledge of DoD standards
• Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
• Demonstrated ability to adequately plan and meet delivery objectives and maintain adequate service levels in a highly dynamic, complex environments

U.S. Citizenship is required. A current DoD security clearance of SECRET or above is highly desired.

Thompson Gray is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Thompson Gray, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants.