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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** Deloitte T.T.L.
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $113,000 - $188,400
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Data Visualization, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Regression Analysis, Power BI, Tableau (Software), Unstructured Data, Feature Engineering, Model Validation
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://apply.deloitte.com/en_US/careers/Login?jobId=375328

## About the Role

* Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
 * Effective written and verbal communication skills
 * Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
 * Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
 * Ability to lead projects or workstreams
 * Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
 * Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
 * Ability to meet deadlines
 * Ability to provide clear guidance to others, Required:
 * Bachelor's degree
 * Active TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph.
 * 5+ years of experience applying statistical methods-including regression analysis, model calibration, diagnostic testing, and interpretation of results-and developing machine learning models and feature engineering using structured data.
 * Experience building, validating, or maintaining quantitative workforce, staffing, or resource models and programming in Python for statistical analysis, data preparation, and model development.
 * Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
 * Must be able to be on site 100% of the time in Springfield, VA

Preferred:

 * Experience integrating structured and unstructured data from multiple source systems
 * Experience performing feature engineering, model evaluation, and model performance tuning
 * Experience developing data visualizations or dashboards using Tableau or Microsoft Power BI

## Description

Our Deloitte Human Capital team helps organizations create value through people performance. We help clients reimagine work, the workforce, and the workplace across the enterprise, and transform HR functions with artificial intelligence and emerging technology. In today's rapidly changing environment, this role supports efforts that help clients improve workforce access, development, motivation, organization, and culture to enable performance., As a Senior Data Scientist on the Government & Public Services Human Capital team, you will be responsible for:

 * Developing and maintaining human capital analytics models, visualizations, and tools that support insider-threat deterrence, detection, and mitigation.
 * Analyzing, cleaning, and preparing personnel and system data for workforce-focused analytics and anomaly detection.
 * Building and maintaining risk-scoring and analytic tools that identify anomalous events and support detection activities.
 * Applying feature engineering, regression analysis, model calibration, and diagnostic testing to create transparent and explainable analytic outputs.
 * Collecting and analyzing metrics on data-transfer quantities and timelines, system errors, failures, and downtime to support system integrity.