Biometrics SME

Company: Saic
Location: Sterling
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

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Location: STERLING, VA, United States
Date Posted: Jan 19, 2021
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Info Architect
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust
Potential for Remote Work: No
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We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Biometrics "SME" to join our team in Sterling, VA to begin an exciting and challenging career with SAIC. Duties and Responsibilities:
--- Ability to understand and analyze data models - how the data is stored in relational databases
--- Background of machine learning/deep learning, computer vision, mathematics and statistics in combination
--- Advance in domain knowledge and capabilities that align with strategic/significant sponsor needs and challenges including but not limited to: machine learning models and algorithms, data analytics, biometric authentication, biometric capturing, image processing
--- A good understanding of optics and digital camera system
--- Knowledge of biometric concepts, principles, and evaluation
--- Experience with preparing technical reports by collecting, capturing, analyzing, and summarizing information, visualization, and trends
--- Domain knowledge with thought leadership in emerging biometric technologies within border security or a unique identity context
--- Knowledge of multi modal fusion techniques
--- Ability to design testing protocols for biometric solutions to balance across detection rates, volume of transactions and response rates.--
--- Knowledge of current biometric solutions and vendor products and be able to utilize these to architect and implement biometric services for the federal market place.
--- Must have hands-on experience with large automated biometric identification systems with large gallery sizes and a large number of daily transactions in terms of analysis, tuning, functional process flows, troubleshooting, and design, development, and deployment.-- Qualifications Required Qualifications or experience:
--- Master's degree and a minimum of 12 years of related experience or equivalent education and experience.
--- Must possess technical proficiency with the analytical and quantitative utilization of biometric data for algorithmic tuning and functional enhancement to increase speed, accuracy, and efficiency of a biometric system
--- Experience in MATLAB, Python or C++, and OpenCV--
--- Hands on experience and ability to understand customer's data environment through data profiling and statistical analyses--
--- Experience with developing predictive models for risk assessment arena using large data sets for high transactional volume environment
--- Experience with evaluating and measuring performance of models
--- Should have a firm understanding of common statistical modeling and techniques (e.g., linear regression, decision trees).
--- Execute complex SQL queries of large table(s) efficiently. (Note: Advanced command of SQL is important - beyond just simple PROC SQL commands in SAS to include perhaps something like Toad or Oracle SQL Developer.)--
--- Conceptual understanding of - and/or prior experiences related to - data profiling, fuzzy matching, entity resolution, and signal detection theory (specifically with respect to SD theory: designing and improving upon systems that monitor, minimize, and balance false positive and false negative outcomes).
--- Must be well versed with:
--o Biometric Capture in terms of ISO or NIST standards
--o Biometric Capture Quality Assessment
--o Biometric Performance Evaluation and Assessment (ROC, CMC, etc.)
--o Biographic matching algorithm (Biographic Matching Design Concept)
--o Machine Readable Travel Document ICAO standards--
--o Message Exchange Standards such as BioAPI, NIEM, ANSI, ISO/IEC
--- Experience Obtaining, scrubbing, exploring, modeling and interpreingt data currently stored in various databases - using SQL and other data mining tools like SAS or SPSS Modeler
--- Provide proper sizing estimates, Design hardware and software architecture
--- Expertise in real-life implementation and deployment, vendor management and proof-of-concept or R&D experiences.
--- Ability to understand system integration aspects of integrating model input and output in transactional systems to help real time decision making
--- Good understanding software application architecture and develop integration approaches for predictive models
--- Experience in performing data quality analysis and profiling tasks, including: Source/target assessments, Data model integrity, Redundancy checks, Ranges and outliers Sparsity/density metrics.
--- Strong organization and time management skills - prior experience in leading a small team is preferred
--- Excellent oral and written communication skills
--- Ability to work effectively within a team environment--
--- Ability to work effectively in a high energy and a very rapid dynamic environment
--- Must possess biometric related IT architectural Expertise relevant to other law enforcement agencies.--
--- Familiarity with policy and/or governance regarding the use of personally identifiable information
--- Experience with federal security policies such as NIST and FISMA
--- AI/Machine Learning
--- Experience with Microsoft Office products, including PowerPoint, Visio, Teams, and SharePoint, and proficiency and strength in verbal, written, presentation, and communications skills
--- US Citizenshp Required Desired Skills and experience:
--- Current Security Clearance
--- IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional Certification preferred
--- Prior experience in working in a mission oriented environment a plus
--- Experience with statistics, modeling and machine learning techniques a plus
--- Master's degree Computer Science or Applied Mathematics or Computational Statistics preferred
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