The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is searching for a Supervisory Data Scientist in the Compensation Research and Program Development Group (CRPDG) in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions (OCWC), according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.
According to the job posting, the Supervisory Data Scientist will:
- Plan, organize, and assign work; set and adjust priorities, establish deadlines and lead a team to develop and understand customer’s data needs and work iteratively to develop solutions.
- Research will include advanced scientific, statistical, and predictive techniques (e.g., regression analysis, modeling, statistical or mathematical programming, machine learning, computational linguistics, auto coding, and data visualizations).
- The incumbent leverages analytic, statistical, and programming techniques to collect, estimate, analyze and interpret large or complex data sets to develop data-driven solutions.
