AI/ML Data Analyst

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with VA stakeholders, data scientists, and engineers to understand data requirements for AI use cases, including veteran claims, medical records, and service histories
• Identify, assess, and prioritize source data sets-whether structured or unstructured-based on quality, completeness, and relevance to targeted outcomes
• Define and document business logic for filtering, transforming, and enriching data sets to support ML training and inference
• Support data mapping, profiling, and lineage documentation to guide the development of ETL pipelines and ensure semantic accuracy
• Collaborate with engineers to validate outputs of data pipelines and troubleshoot anomalies in structured and semi-structured formats
• Perform hands-on exploratory analysis to uncover trends and business insights that inform AI/ML model development
• Help translate policy and regulatory constraints (e.g., PII/PHI, veteran eligibility criteria) into data handling rules

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Public Policy, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, or data-centric product support roles
• Strong understanding of VA/VBA mission areas, especially disability claims processing, medical records, or veteran-facing benefits systems
• Hands-on experience working with data in SQL, Excel, and Python (basic proficiency)
• Proven ability to read and interpret data schemas and structures in relational and/or document-based databases
• Excellent collaboration skills with engineering, science, and business teams in an Agile environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Position of Trust and pass a government background screening

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting AI/ML or GenAI initiatives, especially around training data preparation or model interpretability
• Familiarity with AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena) and basic data pipeline concepts
• Prior experience working with federal health or benefits data, ideally at the VA

Qualifications

• None specified beyond the educational and experience requirements listed in requirements

Benefits & Perks

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental and vision plan options
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid time off including vacation, sick, personal days, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• 15 days of paid leave per year plus 10 paid holidays
• Paid Family Leave providing up to 160 hours in a rolling 12 months
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance