Project System Administrator

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Work You'll Do As a PROJECT - Security Engineer III on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for...

• Supporting the day-to-day performance, availability, and security of OT-focused network and monitoring solutions in classified and mission-critical environments
• Assessing network and server infrastructure to identify opportunities for optimization, hardening, and operational improvement across Linux-based environments, including CentOS, Red Hat, Rocky, and RedHawk
• Automating system baselines, patching, and admini job Work You'll Do
• Lead end-to-end predictive modeling efforts: understand the business use case, conduct preliminary analyses, and propose solutions using statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Validate feasibility quickly through data exploration, proof-of-concept modeling, and clear readouts on what will (and won't) work.
• Improve model performance and robustness by addressing issues like imbalance, overfitting, and leakage; apply strong analytical reasoning to select appropriate methods.
• Interpret and explain model outcomes using feature importance, SHAP, and related techniques; share findings for technical review and iteration.
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with data scientists and leaders across geographies, creating alignment on methods, standards, and delivery milestones.
• Communicate methodology and results to project leadership and senior management in a way that enables decisions and builds trust.
• Supervise and develop a team of data scientists: guide data sourcing and preparation across disparate systems; set modeling best practices; raise quality and speed.
• Mentor team members as a technical and business SME, supporting performance and career growth.
• Stay current on advances in AI/ML, bringing relevant techniques into the team's toolkit responsibly.

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Our Strategy offering architects bold strategies to achieve business and mission goals, enabling growth, competitive advantage, technology modernization, and continuous digital and AI transformation.

The Prism Products portfolio is a group of AI-powered population insight solutions, including HealthPrism, PeoplePrism, Candidate360, and GivePrism, that enable cross-sector clients to better understand and tailor services to the populations they serve.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• 5+ years predictive modeling
• 2+ years leading a team of data scientists

Preferred:

• Experience building and deploying models in cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering and LLM applications such as RAG
• Master's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field (PhD preferred
• Passion for leading and developing data scientists through mentorship, feedback, and technical guidance.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $131,000 to $218,300.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.