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Senior Data Scientist

GovCIOUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This fully remote Senior Data Scientist role offers a competitive salary and the chance to drive significant impact by modernizing data infrastructure and spearheading AI adoption for the Department of Veterans Affairs. You'll thrive here if you're a skilled data professional with cloud platform experience, eager to build innovative data products and mentor others in a reputable organization. Apply today to leverage your expertise in a role that fosters continuous learning and professional growth.

Quick Overview

Salary
$133k - $169k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
United States
Posted
Yesterday
SQLAWSMLflowMachine LearningNumPySciPyAzureDatabricksGoogle CloudPython

Job Description

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Data Scientist to support the Department of Veterans Affais (VA) data Modernization initiative. This position will be fully remote located within the United States.

Responsibilities

  • Consult with internal clients and build data products / workflows to support critical operations
  • Migrate and modernize clients' workload from legacy environment to the cloud to realize quantifiable improvements
  • Spearhead AI adoption with clients to drive business outcomes
  • Create reference use cases with supporting tutorials, reference code, and training to drive the adoption of cloud tooling for concrete business results
  • Host office hours to upskill clients
  • Develop, train, and deploy machine learning to solve complex business problems

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific/technical discipline,+15 years experience (or commensurate experience).
  • Proficient in Python and advanced SQL for data analysis
  • 2+ years' experience performing work on leading cloud platforms such as Databricks, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience in the end-end data science workflow, from identifying datasets to production, and associated tooling (NumPy, SciPy, MLFlow)
  • Solid understanding of traditional machine learning toolboxes
  • Working knowledge of large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI workflow


  • Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a suitability/public trust clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience
  • 5+ years data scientist experience shipping multiple products in operation
  • 2+ year experience in building visualized insights (dashboards and reports) supporting operational needs
  • Prior experience using R / Stata / SAS
  • Experience of refactoring of R / Stata / SAS codebase to Python
  • Prior experience shipping products leveraging LLMs or AI agents


Posted Salary Range

USD $185,000.00 - USD $205,000.00 /Yr.

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