Data Scientist / Risk Modeling Lead

Company Overview:

Over the past 15 years, eTel has delivered essential solutions for the federal government by securing and managing data, providing scalable identity access, modernizing legacy systems, and building high-performance platforms. By integrating new technologies and ensuring reliable operations we help agencies stay prepared for future challenges As a premier technology solutions and services company to the US federal government, eTel possesses longstanding relationships across the federal civilian marketplace. Other customers include the broader Treasury Department, Commerce Department, and State Department.

eTel offers integrated CMMI Level 3 processes, tools, and techniques with innovative, cost-efficient, and secure solutions to address complex challenges. eTel also holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certifications, and offers dedicated subject matter experts (SMEs) and thought leaders that possess a deep understanding of customers' environments and challenges.

Place of Performance: Remote

Citizenship: US Citizen (MUST)

Security Clearance: Must be eligible to possess MBI (IRS Background Investigation) clearance. Active IRS MBI clearance is preferred.

Role Summary:

Leads the data-science and risk-analytics workstream supporting Safeguards' risk-based review selection. Builds and maintains the models, scripts, and dashboards that rank partner agencies by risk and inform which agencies are selected for review.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and operate data fields, code, and scripts that analyze review-finding data and its relationship to Risk Model outputs and Health Score calculations.
• Revise and maintain formulas and macros that provide weighted evaluations of risk factors.
• Perform data aggregation to identify the most "at-risk" agency partners, including manual validation of automated rankings.
• Develop and maintain the Risk Dashboard — findings, risk levels, rankings, remediation status, and historical trends — with clear visualizations for the Risk Team.
• Support the Quarterly Risk Team Meetings and maintain the Risk Support Work Plan.

Core Experience (Required):

• Demonstrated experience applying scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract or extrapolate insights from structured and unstructured data across multiple application domains.
• Demonstrated use of automation and scripting techniques.
• Experience presenting analytic results to management and non-technical personnel.

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, mathematics, engineering, finance, economics, and/or data science from an accredited college or university.

Specialized Skills (Required):

• Tableau
• R programming
• Python 3
• VBA.

Commitment to Diversity -

eTelligent Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, nations origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, and any other characteristic provided in accordance with applicable, federal, state and local laws.