This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Data Scientist for our Baltimore, MD office.  Be a member of our Planning Advisory Team a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges. This position will be working full-time for our client The Maryland Transit Administration, Office of Performance Management/Office of Customer Experience (OPM/OPX) requiring on-site work in the client’s office in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor 2-3 days per week.

As a Data Scientist, you will work on a scrum team with other embedded  Data Scientists, the Manager of Data Science, and the Manager of Performance Programs and Data Analytics. Your work will fall into two categories: building and maintaining technical artifacts, and building and refining processes and policies. The Data Science Team is currently working to expand its capacity, and you will contribute to that effort by building data pipelines in our Data Lake to support enterprise intelligence products, building data services that drive institutional goals, and conducting various analyses to answer specific questions for stakeholders. You will also help develop internal processes and policies by writing and updating pages in our team handbook, building Github actions and unit tests, and collaborating with team members to solve recurring technical problems.

Your Impact

• Support efficient and effective operations by analyzing data in R and/or Python programming languages and delivering clear answers to specific questions.
• Support the data analyst's Power BI products by designing, building, and modifying data models and data
  pipelines in a manner consistent with the data science team's data governance policy.
• Maintain transparency and minimize technical debt by using Git DevOps platforms to commit code, submit
  merge requests, and track your work using issues and epics in a manner consistent with the data science team's DevOps policy.
• Prioritize performance management projects by working with the Data Analytics team to define enterprise
  objectives, user stories, and data stories.
• Promote teamwork by making meaningful contributions to our team handbook, creating and modifying policies and procedures to enhance productivity.
• Honor the data science team's warranty on artifacts in production by debugging and solving programming and data problems.
• Identify new opportunities to improve MTA customer experience by conducting self-guided exploratory work or as part of assigned tasks.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Data Analysis, Accounting, Finance or related field.
• 1 to 3 years of relevant post education experience working as a data scientist/analyst.
• A passion for improving public transportation through the effective use of data analytics.
• The ability to construct complex queries in SQL involving multiple joins, sub-queries, case when statements, etc.
• R and Python programming skills.
• Ability to problem-solve independently using Google searches, Stack Overflow, Chat GPT, and other similar
  resources.
• Ability to communicate clearly and respectfully to technical and non-technical staff of differing backgrounds and experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with version control such as Git, and cloud-based services such as GitHub.
• Experience working on a scrum team.
• Prior experience within the engineering consulting industry is preferred.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand.  Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.