Job Description

GDIT's Early Career Program is designed with you in mind! Our technical internship allows you the opportunity to be a part of a collaborative team that is helping to solve our client's most complex issues. Throughout GDIT's 10-week summer internship program, you will work on innovative projects that touch areas such as software development, data infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, and IT support , and other related areas depending on your background and interest. As an intern, you will have real responsibilities and work alongside experienced and innovative industry professionals. Your internship experience will equip you with best in class skills to take back to the classroom.

GDIT is seeking a Database Associate (Intern) in Bossier City, La

Profile

This individual will work actively with the GDIT TSS team to support our customer missions to discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better services. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our services. The ideal data scientist applicant is someone who strives to make value out of data, by gathering information from various sources, analyzing it for better mission understanding, and builds data models/tools/automation that improves mission processes or provides critical insights/awareness.

Responsibilities

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Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques

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Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.

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Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis

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Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

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Supporting the assessment of data architecture principles and standards with regard to Application and Infrastructure architecture standards

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Helping to assess the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits and opportunities of solutions

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Develop and validate systems architectural blueprint and design for quality, performance, security, user experience, maintenance, operations, redundancy, compliance, data flows, life cycling, dependencies and integration.

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Perform systems data design work that may include logic design, data model formulation, development of data architecture analysis and design, and data systems engineering tasks.

Desired Skills

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Knowledge of data architecture principles, methods, and techniques. Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.

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Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, and regression

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Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, or MatLab and proficiency in using query languages such as Python, SQL, Hive, Pig, or Tensor Flow

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Experience with BI concepts (i.e metadata and master data management, data standardization, data pipeline, and integration of data silos) and data warehousing methodologies (i.e dimension models, data marts, and normalized repositories)

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Must be able to work independently on complex tasks which require analysis and action.

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Possess strong interpersonal skills, relationship management and negotiation skills, strong verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements

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Must be a US Citizen or a Legal Permanent Resident

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Must be currently enrolled at an accredited college or university with at least 1 semester of studies remaining after August 2021.

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HS/GED, 1+ year experience as an undergraduate students pursuing a bachelors in Computer Science and concentration in Data Science/Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence or related

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technical discipline

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The likely salary range for this position is $33,280 - $49,920, this is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary; rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

T elecommuting Options:
Some Telecommuting Allowed

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:
USA LA Bossier City

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.nnGDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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