The Role
Leads data science and analytics strategy for DHS CBP mission programs. Designs Dataverse data models, pipelines, validation controls, statistical and machine-learning models, and reporting solutions. Performs hands-on Python and SQL analysis, assesses data quality and governance, communicates findings and limitations, establishes reproducible analytical standards, and mentors technical teams. The role also coordinates integrations, responsible AI practices, peer reviews, and operational deployment of analytics.
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Xenith Solutions is a small family focused business where we focus on taking care of our employees and customers equally. We are focused on serving Federal / Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence organizations with superior service. If you want to be a part of a rapidly growing business with an exceptional culture, then you want to be a part of the Xenith Solutions family.
Xenith Solutions is seeking an inspired candidate to join our team in support of a government contract for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Job Description:
Dataverse/Data Science Lead join a multidisciplinary team supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Program Management Office (PMO). This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about applying technical expertise to real-world national security challenges and advancing mission-critical capabilities through research, evaluation, and informed decision-making. This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation (BI) is required; active CBP BI preferred. This position requires 20% travel that may entail remote and rugged areas.
The Data Science Lead must be a hands-on technical leader who combines advanced statistical expertise, strong coding skills, and practical mission awareness. This individual will evaluate data quality, validate assumptions, select appropriate analytical methods, and tackle complex technical challenges while ensuring findings are accurate, defensible, and actionable.
The role also requires strengthening team capabilities through technical mentorship, peer review, and consistent analytical standards. The ideal candidate can communicate complex findings, uncertainty, bias, and limitations clearly to technical, operational, clinical, and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Required Experience in years:
Education Requirements:
Security Requirements:
Preferred Skills:
Xenith Solutions is seeking an inspired candidate to join our team in support of a government contract for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Job Description:
Dataverse/Data Science Lead join a multidisciplinary team supporting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Program Management Office (PMO). This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about applying technical expertise to real-world national security challenges and advancing mission-critical capabilities through research, evaluation, and informed decision-making. This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation (BI) is required; active CBP BI preferred. This position requires 20% travel that may entail remote and rugged areas.
The Data Science Lead must be a hands-on technical leader who combines advanced statistical expertise, strong coding skills, and practical mission awareness. This individual will evaluate data quality, validate assumptions, select appropriate analytical methods, and tackle complex technical challenges while ensuring findings are accurate, defensible, and actionable.
The role also requires strengthening team capabilities through technical mentorship, peer review, and consistent analytical standards. The ideal candidate can communicate complex findings, uncertainty, bias, and limitations clearly to technical, operational, clinical, and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the analytical strategy for complex operational, workflow, technology, and programmatic questions, ensuring analyses are aligned with customer priorities and decision needs.
- Serve as the lead subject-matter expert for Microsoft Dataverse data structures, data management practices, analytical use cases, and integration with reporting, automation, and data-science solutions.
- Assess data readiness for analytical and reporting use cases, including data quality, completeness, sensitivity, lineage, authoritative sources, access considerations, and fitness for intended measures.
- Design and maintain reporting-ready Dataverse data models, tables, relationships, transformations, validation rules, business logic, and analytical pipelines.
- Develop, review, and apply statistical models, machine-learning methods, exploratory analyses, predictive analytics, and AI/large-language-model evaluations, as appropriate.
- Perform hands-on analysis using Python, SQL, Dataverse queries, and related tools; troubleshoot complex data, integration, transformation, reporting, and modeling issues.
- Partner with program, operational, technical, evaluation, and data-governance stakeholders to establish appropriate baselines, denominators, comparisons, outcomes, performance measures, and evidence limitations.
- Translate complex analytical findings into concise, actionable products for technical and nontechnical decision-makers, clearly communicating uncertainty, data-quality issues, assumptions, bias, and causal limitations.
- Lead feature definition, model selection, validation strategies, error analysis, sensitivity testing, bias and fairness assessments, and interpretation for advanced analytics and machine-learning efforts.
- Establish analytical standards and governance practices for reproducibility, peer review, validation, documentation, version control, data-quality checks, and transparent communication of analytical assumptions and limitations.
- Create reusable notebooks, SQL scripts, code patterns, analytical templates, Dataverse configuration standards, data dictionaries, and quality checks to improve consistency and accelerate future work.
- Coach analysts, data scientists, and technical teams on data-management practices, analytical methods, quality assurance, peer review, and responsible use of data and AI-enabled capabilities.
- Coordinate with data engineering, platform, application-development, and Power Platform resources on data-pipeline design, integrations, model handoff, monitoring requirements, performance expectations, security considerations, and maintainability.
- Lead technical reviews of analytical plans, data models, methods, and results to ensure the data, validation approach, assumptions, and interpretation are appropriate for the customer’s decision.
- Partner with data owners and governance stakeholders to improve data definitions, provenance, access patterns, quality expectations, retention practices, and responsible-use controls when recurring analysis identifies systemic data issues.
- Support development of dashboards, reports, and self-service analytical products using approved reporting and visualization tools, ensuring outputs are accurate, documented, and fit for operational use.
- Remain current on applicable data-governance policies, privacy and security requirements, analytical methodologies, Microsoft Dataverse capabilities, and responsible AI practices.
Required Experience in years:
- At least 9 years of progressive experience in applied data science, advanced analytics, statistical analysis, data engineering, or related analytical roles. Experience should include work in federal health, healthcare, regulated-data environments, enterprise modernization, or similarly complex mission-driven organizations.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex analytical efforts from problem definition through data assessment, analysis, validation, interpretation, and communication of results to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strong hands-on experience using Python and SQL to develop, test, validate, and troubleshoot analytical workflows, data transformations, statistical models, and machine-learning solutions.
- Experience designing and assessing data models, data pipelines, data-quality controls, validation logic, data lineage, authoritative data sources, and reporting-ready datasets.
- Experience with one or more advanced analytical methods, including predictive modeling, time-series analysis, causal inference, natural-language processing, machine learning, generative AI, or large language model evaluation.
- Experience with modern data, analytics, and visualization platforms, such as Microsoft Dataverse, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or comparable technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate analytical methods, results, uncertainty, assumptions, bias, data-quality concerns, and limitations clearly to leadership and other decision-makers.
- Experience establishing or applying analytical standards for reproducibility, peer review, documentation, version control, quality assurance, validation, and responsible use of data and AI.
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring analysts or data scientists, leading peer reviews, developing reusable analytical standards or assets, or managing complex analytical workstreams.
Education Requirements:
- Master’s degree or higher in statistics, data science, operations research, public health, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or another related quantitative discipline.
Security Requirements:
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation (BI) is required; active CBP BI preferred.
Preferred Skills:
- Doctoral degree in statistics, data science, operations research, public health, computer science, engineering, economics, epidemiology, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience supporting healthcare, federal health, clinical analytics, public health, operations research, or other domains where data context, quality, and interpretation materially affect operational or programmatic decisions.
- Experience operationalizing analytics or machine-learning solutions through repeatable data pipelines, model monitoring, MLOps practices, model lifecycle management, or collaboration with production engineering and platform teams.
- Experience designing, implementing, or evaluating NLP, generative AI, or large language model solutions, including evaluation methodologies, error analysis, bias or fairness assessment, and responsible-use considerations.
- Experience working with Dataverse and the Microsoft Power Platform, including Dataverse table design, relationships, security roles, integrations, data management, reporting, and Power BI analytics.
- Advanced certifications in cloud machine learning, data science, analytics, data engineering, Databricks, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Power Platform, or comparable technologies.
- Evidence of recognized technical leadership through publications, conference presentations, internal analytical standards, training development, mentoring, peer-review leadership, or leadership of enterprise-scale analytical initiatives.
Skills Required
- At least 9 years of progressive experience in applied data science, advanced analytics, statistical analysis, data engineering, or related analytical roles
- Experience in federal health, healthcare, regulated-data environments, enterprise modernization, or similarly complex mission-driven organizations
- Experience leading complex analytical efforts from problem definition through data assessment, analysis, validation, interpretation, and stakeholder communication
- Strong hands-on experience using Python and SQL for analytical workflows, data transformations, statistical models, and machine-learning solutions
- Experience designing and assessing data models, data pipelines, data-quality controls, validation logic, data lineage, authoritative sources, and reporting-ready datasets
- Experience with advanced analytical methods such as predictive modeling, time-series analysis, causal inference, NLP, machine learning, generative AI, or large-language-model evaluation
- Experience with modern data, analytics, and visualization platforms such as Microsoft Dataverse, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to communicate analytical methods, results, uncertainty, assumptions, bias, data-quality concerns, and limitations to leadership and decision-makers
- Experience establishing or applying standards for reproducibility, peer review, documentation, version control, quality assurance, validation, and responsible data and AI use
- Technical leadership experience mentoring analysts or data scientists, leading peer reviews, developing reusable standards or assets, or managing complex analytical workstreams
- Master's degree or higher in statistics, data science, operations research, public health, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation
- Doctoral degree in a quantitative discipline
- Experience supporting healthcare, federal health, clinical analytics, public health, operations research, or similar data-sensitive domains
- Experience with production data pipelines, model monitoring, MLOps, model lifecycle management, or production engineering collaboration
- Experience designing, implementing, or evaluating NLP, generative AI, or large-language-model solutions
- Experience working with Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform, including table design, relationships, security roles, integrations, reporting, and Power BI analytics
- Advanced certifications in cloud machine learning, data science, analytics, data engineering, Databricks, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Power Platform, or comparable technologies
- Recognized technical leadership through publications, presentations, standards, training, mentoring, peer-review leadership, or enterprise-scale analytical initiatives
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The Company
What We Do
Xenith Solutions LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. We value our employees and provide 100% employee premium paid health insurance, dental and vision care. We also offer our employees unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO). We do not want our employees to worry about caring for themselves or their families as well as ensuring they have ample time off to recharge. Xenith provides comprehensive, timely and relevant Solutions and Business Consulting support to our customers as a key partner. Our leadership brings over a century of combined experience in Defense and Civilian markets. Our employees possess experience in all aspects of solution development from requirements creation, development, test and evaluation, fielding, and sustainment. At the core of our offerings we provide strategy and technology solutions, giving our customers valuable insights and thought leadership on the best application of information technology to drive business objectives. Xenith focuses on solving complex business challenges facing our customers. Our “Success Through Achievement” work ethic means our customer receive quality solutions through our commitment. We pride ourselves on tackling some of the most difficult operational requirements our customers have – ensuring an appropriate match between the mission requirements, financials, schedule, and security.
