Data Scientist - Direct Hire Authority

Summary The incumbent serves as a Data Scientist at the Food and Nutrition Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, supporting the agency's fraud analytics portfolio. The Data Scientist serves as a senior technical expert working on complex, data-driven objectives to analyze, evaluate fraud, waste, and abuse prevention initiatives. Responsibilities The incumbent analyzes complex data across contexts to evaluate program performance, policy effectiveness, and impacts. Developing interactive dashboards and presentations for fraud detection, consolidating and validating diverse data sources, and contributing to the synthesis of requirements. Advise on and contribute to the development of data policies to improve program integrity, evaluating regulations and operations through advanced analysis of fraud patterns. Support the integration of governance and quality standards to enhance fraud detection, enforce business rules for data maintenance and identify improvements in dat...