Senior Data Scientist

About this role

Senior Data Scientist

General Information

Requisition # 717

Locations USA-VA-Arlington

Posting Date 06/12/2026

Security Clearance Required - IRS MBI

Remote Type Hybrid

Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

Elder Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Data Scientist to join our team in Arlington, VA. This role is a remote role preferably in the Washington DC area.

As a Data Scientist, you will support the Internal Revenue Service’s mission to improve tax compliance, fraud detection, and risk identification across large, complex tax and financial data environments. You will work directly with government clients, program managers, and technical teams to understand business and compliance challenges, design analytical approaches, and deliver data-driven solutions that inform enforcement, audit prioritization, and fraud prevention efforts.

In this role, you will develop, test, and deploy predictive and statistical models using structured and unstructured data to identify anomalies, non-compliance risk, and potential fraud within tax records and related datasets. You will contribute across the full data science lifecycle, from problem formulation and data exploration through model validation, deployment, and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Prior programming experience, preferably in Python or R, including data exploration, feature engineering, model development, and writing modular, reusable, well-documented code within an iterative development process that includes peer review and collaboration
• Demonstrated experience using Python, SQL, and Databricks for data analysis, modeling, statistical evaluation, and working with Markdown for technical documentation
• Explore, clean, and wrangle large, complex datasets to uncover insights and identify opportunities for data science–drive...