Data Scientist / Data Analyst - U.S. Government Agency

S. and internationally to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world. At Dexis, you will experience a corporate culture of inclusiveness, respect, fairness, and trust.

You will be given the means and mentorship needed to succeed, and your creativity will be rewarded. S. Government Agency by providing advanced data science, data analytics, statistical analysis, dashboard development, visualization, fraud-risk analysis, and investigative analytical support.

This role supports audits, inspections, evaluations, investigations, and other oversight activities through the analysis of structured and unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources. The position plays a key role in supporting oversight and investigative functions by developing defensible, repeatable, and mission-relevant analytical products.

Requirements

, process improvement initiatives, and analytical modernization efforts. C. and is contingent upon award.

Responsibilities

Support audit and oversight teams by performing data acquisition, cleaning, normalization, profiling, exploratory analysis, statistical testing, risk scoring, control testing support, exception reporting, dashboard development, and preparation of analytic documentation suitable for inclusion in audit workpapers and reports. Support investigators and related personnel by performing investigative analytics, financial analysis, transaction tracing, relationship and link analysis, event sequencing, timeline development, entity resolution, and preparation of analytical outputs supporting investigative leads, case development, referrals, and prosecution support. Support fraud-risk modeling, hotline and triage analytics, data governance, data quality improvement, process automation, and development of reusable analytical scripts, templates, and dashboards.

Receive, review, and clarify task requests; define analytic objectives, data needs, assumptions, dependencies, and timelines; recommend appropriate analytical methods and levels of effort; and track status, milestones, deliverables, and risks. Collect data from government-furnished systems, exports, files, and approved external sources; validate file completeness, schema consistency, format compatibility, and integrity; and document chain of custody or receipt logs when required. Clean and normalize datasets; perform de-duplication, standardization, field harmonization, and date/time normalization; address missing values, outliers, malformed records, and join-key inconsistencies; and create data dictionaries and metadata summaries where needed.

Merge and reconcile datasets from multiple sources, perform entity resolution and record linkage, and create analysis-ready datasets. Identify high-risk transactions, vendors, awards, payments, disbursements, travel, payroll, grants, loans, contracts, and other program activities; perform trend, variance, outlier, duplicate, gap, and exception analyses; and support fraud risk indicators and internal control assessments. Assist in the development of population analyses and sampling frames, identify relevant universes and stratification criteria, produce exception lists, and support reconciliations and completeness checks.

Analyze financial records, payment streams, invoices, procurement transactions, expense records, and related datasets.