In this role you will join IBM Consulting via our world-class Associate Program for university hires. As an Associate Data Scientist at IBM Consulting - Federal you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of clients worldwide. Our clients' technical and business needs are constantly evolving. We're hiring inspired talented individuals who believe no problem is too big to solve.
We focus on your professional development through ongoing learning mentorship development of technical skills and continuous personal growth all grounded in a culture of coaching and career advancement. If you see yourself as someone who never stops learning and who wants to unleash your potential the IBM Consulting Associates Program is for you.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio including Software and Red Hat.
As an IBM Associate Data Scientist within Federal you will work to solve business problems using leading-edge and open-source tools such as Python R and TensorFlow combined with IBM tools and our AI application suites. You will prepare analyze and understand data to deliver insight predict emerging trends and provide recommendations to stakeholders. In your role you may be responsible for:
- Implementing and validating predictive and prescriptive models creating and maintaining statistical models with a focus on big data and incorporating machine learning techniques in your projects
- Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner
- Working in an Agile collaborative environment partnering with other data scientists engineers consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of predicting behaviors
- Communicating with internal and external clients to understand and define business needs and appropriate modeling techniques to provide analytical solutions.
- Evaluating modeling results and communicating the results to technical and non-technical audiences.
These positions are anticipated to start in 2026. We have multiple positions open in the following location:
Washington DC Metro Area
Candidates must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting-Federal
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal security clearance while in IBM Consulting – Federal.
- Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms)
- You're proficient in least one of the statistical programming languages such as R Python Scala SAS SPSS or Matlab
- You have a basic understanding of or experience with predictive/prescriptive modeling skills
- You have strong technical and analytical abilities a knack for driving impact and growth and some experience with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python
- You're great at solving problems by looking at things differently debugging troubleshooting and designing and implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
- You thrive on teamwork and have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- You have a basic understanding of Cloud (AWS Azure etc.)
- Familiarity with constructing usable data sets from multiple structured and unstructured data sources