Senior Data Scientist

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution.

Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose. 

We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind. 

We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Senior Data Scientist for a Full-Time position.

Role Summary

The Senior Data Scientist will serve as a hands-on data engineering and analytics specialist responsible for modernizing decades of structured, semi-structured and document-based USFWS data into secure, traceable and AI-ready datasets.

Responsibilities:

• Build Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion data pipelines.
• Ingest legacy structured and unstructured data.
• Design reproducible and idempotent ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Maintain full record-level lineage.
• Implement PostgreSQL data structures.
• Design DynamoDB/document access patterns.
• Support AWS-based data processing.
• Ingest scanned permits, certificates and related documents.
• Perform OCR and structured-field extraction.
• Track each extracted value to document/page/region.
• Implement field-level confidence measures.
• Route low-confidence extractions to human review.
• Handle PII identification, masking and access control.
• Implement normalization, validation and quarantine processes.
• Produce data-quality scorecards and pipeline documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• 7–10+ years in data engineering/data science.
• Advanced Python and SQL.
• AWS data-platform experience.
• PostgreSQL.
• DynamoDB.
• ETL/ELT and medallion/lakehouse architectures.
• Data lineage and metadata management.
• OCR/document intelligence.
• Structured + semi-structured + document processing.
• Large-scale data-cleaning experience.
• PII/security/data-governance experience.
• Federal data experience desirable.
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Our Profile: 

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed. Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them.  Learn More.

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture!

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