Data Scientist - (Direct Hire - Open to All U.S. Citizens)
Office of National Examinations and Supervision
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
+ Location Negotiable After Selection
Duties
As a Data Scientist, you will:
Run quarterly data collection and quality review process; recommend and implement metrics, reports and assessments that provide ongoing monitoring and challenge of data quality control; complete regular checks of data integrity; and reconcile data with alternative data sources. Create and perform data scrubbing and cleansing specific to business requirements, modeling needs, and analytical tool specifications. Review data quality assessment reports; identify and perform necessary ad-hoc analysis to aid data quality communication efforts with ONES credit unions; participate in quarterly data quality communication effort with credit unions, including performing data analysis on assigned credit unions, drafting written communication on analyzed data quality issues, preparing and performing presentations describing data quality issues; and seeks to convert certain ad-hoc analyses into permanent functionality in the data quality process using Python or R. Refine division level data standards and documents and maintain data processing procedures that comply with enterprise-level policies for privacy, information security, information classification, records retention, and data governance. Identify best practices and tools for the visual communication of complex data analysis products. Assist in the development of programmatic solutions to automate complex analytical tasks, including interaction with a wide variety of financial analysis software packages. Develop and instruct educational programs and classes on data-related topics for staff, other NCUA internal groups, and external non-NCUA groups.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen. Suitable adjudication of background/security investigation is required. A probationary/trial period may be required. Must complete initial online questionnaire. This position is telework eligible. Financial disclosure is required.
Qualifications
Please note: Under the provisions of the Direct-Hire Authority, veterans' preference does not apply. Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and the basic requirements and who are otherwise eligible to apply for this position, may be referred for selection consideration. Traditional rating and ranking of applications does not apply.
Specialized experience is the experience that has equipped you with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.
All applicants applying for the CU-
14 level must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the CU/GS-
13 level obtained in the private or public sector.
Specialized experience for this position is defined as experience:
1. Developing, validating, and maintaining analytical datasets, using data modeling techniques and programming for quantitative analysis; and
2. Developing quantitative analytics and reporting using R and Python; and
3. Automating complex processes to create analytical data systems.
You must meet the qualifications for this position by the closing date of this announcement.
Please note, all experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.
YOUR RESUME MUST provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience and support your responses to the online questionnaire as described in the vacancy announcement. When describing your experience in your resume, please be specific. We will not make assumptions regarding your experience. Please ensure that your resume includes the grade (if you are a current or previous federal employee), month, and year that you began and ended for each position held or that position may not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Full-time employment will be assumed unless otherwise stated on your resume. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating.
Your resume must also support your responses to the online questionnaire. Failure to provide support may result in a lower rating and/or you may be excluded from consideration. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.
Education
In addition to meeting specialized experience requirements, applicants must also meet the following Basic Requirement:
A. Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.
or
B. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in statement A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.
Transcripts are required and must be submitted at the time of application.
All education must be received by an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with an education requirement) therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees received from schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants may verify accreditation at the following website: .
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed outside of the United States must be deemed equivalent to that gained in accredited U.S. education programs to be acceptable for federal employment. A third party equivalency evaluation must be submitted at the time of application for all foreign education to receive consideration.
For special instructions pertaining to foreign education, see , and for a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, visit .
Additional information
SALARY: Pay will be set within the advertised pay range to align with the selectee's skills and experience and the requirements of the position in accordance with NCUA's compensation policy. The salary range shown is NCUA's National Pay Rate (NPR) which includes a locality rate of 16.32% for the Rest of the U.S. (RUS) geographical area. Actual salary will be determined upon the location of the selectee and the applicable locality pay, per the NCUA's CU pay table, will be applied. The locality rates, by location, can be found on the NCUA Careers webpage under the .
SELECTIVE SERVICE: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. You may register or check the status of your registration by visiting the Selective Service website at .
This position is in the bargaining unit.
Effective January 1, 2010, OPM must authorize any employment offers we make to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES (political) employees in the executive branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-career SES employee in the executive branch, you must disclose that to the point of contact listed on this vacancy announcement.
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