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Machine Learning Engineer

Herndon

Requires TS/SCI

Description:
The maximum number of FTEs is two (2). Actual FTE bid, labor category, and skill level is at the discretion of the Contractor.

Introduction: The Sponsor’s office leads an effort to bring its enterprise services into compliance with Federal data standards and formats. The Sponsor is seeking analytical support to review, compare, and make recommendations for actions (data cleansing and transformation), as well as support data migration planning and coordination efforts. The Sponsor also seeks to build a skills inventory, which will eventually integrate with other Sponsor’s systems, capturing both position skill requirements and competency levels, as well as personnel skill and competencies. The Sponsor's project manager will manage priorities.

Work Requirements: The Contractor Team shall work closely with systems engineers, database administrators, HR and Talent management, subject matter experts (SMEs), and project managers. The Contractor Team shall perform a gap analysis of the following sub-tasks to include analyzing the current state, creating a baseline, identifying the gaps between what is known and what is needed, and developing an action plan to mitigate the gaps.
a) The Contractor Team shall review the Sponsor’s analysis of data sets.
b) The Contractor Team shall compare data sets against information contained in various HR and Talent Sponsor systems.
c) The Contractor Team shall review and map the Sponsor’s knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) data sets to a variety of data sets pulled from various sources and identify structural differences between the fields in the various data sets.
d) The Contractor Team shall review the Sponsor’s data cleansing status.
e) The Contractor Team shall preview mock cleansing to show previous and desired end states.
The Contractor Team shall establish a repeatable process to periodically “scrape” and collect skills from a collection of Sponsor performance reviews. The Contractor Team shall comply with the Sponsor’s guidance and policies regarding the collection, analysis, and use of personal identifiable Information (PII). The Contractor Team shall create an access-controlled collection of disparate data sources. The Contractor Team shall create an access-controlled database to store collected jobs, competencies, KSAs, and proficiency levels. The portable database will be transferrable to the process owner upon the completion of the implementation. The Contractor Team shall create a data migration plan to export collected skills and competencies into the Sponsor’s systems. The Contractor Team shall scrape, collate, and perform analysis of skill sets from open source, commercially available, and existing Sponsor databases and applications for addition to the skills repository. The Contractor Team shall scrape, gather, and analyze onboarding data to enrich the skill and competencies repository. The Contractor Team shall review and analyze all Sponsor service competency data for addition to the skill and competencies repository. The Contractor Team shall collaborate with other internal Sponsor offices to review, analyze, and update competency data from open source, commercially available, existing Sponsor databases, and applications, in addition to the skill and competencies repository. The Contractor Team shall evaluate the Sponsor's current Chatbot and Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) offerings, and integration methods, and provide a report on opportunities to integrate with the Sponsor's systems. The Contactor Team shall evaluate and assess the Sponsor’s planned system restructuring and its data integration impacts with a new external service provider. The Contractor Team shall work with the Sponsor's team supporting the system restructure to understand data standards required and the impact on the Sponsor’s OPM standardization efforts. The Contractor Team will create a transition guide or Standard Operating Procesdures (SOPs) of activities. The Contractor Team shall create and maintain documentation for a Skills Taxonomy Gap Analysis Report to include an assessment of the current state, proposed baseline of competencies and KSAs, identification of missing data, and an action plan for gap mitigation. The Contractor shall create and maintain documentation of methodologies and tools used to accomplish the Scope of Work (SOW). The Contractor Team shall create and maintain documentation related to system access to database(s), systems used, and databases accessed to perform the work.
The Contractor Team shall create and maintain a list of Internal and External Key Contacts, to include names and contact information.
The Contractor shall create and maintain documentation regarding concerns, risks, and issues regarding data, storage, tools, and access.
The Contractor shall create and maintain documentation regarding the status of deliverables and open actions
Required Skills:
1. Demonstrated experience designing, creating tables, views, relationships, and scripting (SQL) with database systems (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, NOSQL, and/or structured and unstructured data).
2. Demonstrated experience with implementing and using extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools.
3. Demonstrated experience implementing, using, and creating Data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or data services.
4. Demonstrated experience with Python, Java, and Scala programming languages.
5. Demonstrated experience implementing, using, and creating data visualizations.
6. Demonstrated experience implementing, using, or creating ML/AI software, tools, and services.
7. Demonstrated experience using or creating Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based analytic tools and services.
8. Demonstrated experience using and implementing Apache Hadoop.
Desired Skills:
1. Demonstrated experience with using and creating Tableau visualizations.
2. Demonstrated experience with using and creating workspaces in Bluescape.
3. Demonstrated experience working with data services in the Sponsor’s cloud environment.
4. Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor’s HR data and database environment.
5. Demonstrated experience using SharePoint, and adding and integrating content.
6. Demonstrated knowledge of Agile Project Management Methodology.

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