Data Science Consultant (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

As a Data Scientist, you will drive R&D initiatives to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence in support of a defense intelligence mission customer. Your work will center on developing Proofs of Concept (POC) and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) that leverage NLP, generative AI, and agentic AI.

• Design, develop, and apply cutting-edge GenAI and AgenticAI methods to solve complex, real-world problems
• Act as an AI thought leader, including creating whitepapers, presentations, executive briefings, reports, and other materials to support AI solutions and services
• Guide federal clients with high autonomy in AI strategy and development, including understanding agency needs, performing exploratory data analysis, building and validating models, and deploying models into both on-prem and cloud environments
• Act as a subject matter expert to GPS clients and global AI partner ecosystem
• Iterate on and/or create repeatable, reusable processes and scalable data systems that meet technical and deployment challenges
• Maintain and uphold data science best practices on new methodologies, technologies, industry trends, and open source packages
• Work cross-functionally with other scientists & data engineers, federal account manager and leadership to help ensure project delivery and success
• Maintain and uphold data science best practices by staying current with new GenAI/AgenticAI methodologies, technologies, industry trends, and open source packages.

The Team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our AI & Data offering provides a full spectrum of solutions for designing, developing, and operating cutting-edge Data and AI platforms, products, insights, and services. Our offerings help clients innovate, enhance and operate their data, AI, and analytics capabilities, ensuring they can mature and scale effectively.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Active TS/SCI security clearance required
• 3+ years of experience in Python
• 3+ years of experience in executing data science methodologies using common programming/scripting languages
• Ability to work on-site in Tampa, FL 5 days per week

Preferred:

• Prior professional services or consulting experience
• Masters degree in Computer Science or related field
• Displays both breadth and depth of knowledge regarding functional and technical issues in AI and Data Science
• Experience presenting to clients or other decision makers to present and sell ideas to various audiences (technical and non-technical)

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