Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Springfield, VA (Also available in Tampa, FL and St. Louis,
MO)

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance and be
willing to obtain a CI Polygraph

Job Description:

The selected candidate will collaborate directly with clients to
understand their data-related challenges and questions. Based on this
understanding, your technical background, and IC domain knowledge, you
will build modern analytic processes, new solutions, scripts and data
modeling content. You will serve in a role that is focused on building
automated processes, designing data science architectures, conducting
analysis, and developing workflows. You will utilize advanced tools for
data examination and identify trends to address complex DoD and IC
challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

- Apply exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques to extract
insights, patterns, and correlations from complex datasets

- Create processes around large data sets to identify analytical
discoveries

- Create visualizations for those discoveries that are easily
integrated into daily operations.

- Engage with both structured and unstructured datasets in a modeling
and analytics context to develop efficient processes for evaluating
complex data sources and addressing unique intelligence challenges

- Use big data tools to process and interpret diverse datasets,
generating meaningful insights

- Python Scripting

- Lead and contribute to the creation of new solutions, as well as the
enhancement of existing ones

- Collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and program managers
to break down road map items into actionable tasks, provide time and
resource estimates, propose solutions, and assess risk

- Integrate math, coding, and analytics to derive actionable insights
for decision-makers

- Research and apply optimization frameworks and strategies to inform
both data management and analytical activities

Required Qualifications:

- Active TS/SCI clearance with eligibility for CI Polygraph (we can
sponsor your CI poly if you don't already have one)

- 7 years of experience and a BS degree (substitutions of experience,
education, and certifications/training are allowed and will be
considered)

- Background supporting Intelligence Community operations (either as
an analyst or a data scientist to support -INT related missions)

- Must be able to script at a Senior Level in python.

- Hands-on experience with data mining

- Ability to work with large datasets of structured and unstructured
data with the ability to create processes to identify analytical
discoveries

- Must be able to create visualizations for data discoveries and
provide them in a way that is easily integrated into daily
operations

- Proficiency with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) statistical tools
such as MapLarge, Tableau, or MATLAB for data visualization and
complex statistical analysis

- Ability to identify opportunities for system enhancements and new
analytic capabilities

- Experience leveraging government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) data
processing and analytics tools to modernize methodologies

- Understanding of and hands-on experience with advanced analytical
methods, and a track record of applying them to meet client needs

- Knowledge of multi-INT and specialized technology research methods
to support operational needs

- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain
technical details in an accessible way

Preferred Qualifications:

- Programming experience with other languages or low/code-no/code
pograms

- HTML5/JavaScript, SQL, Oracle, ArcObjects,ArcModel Builder,
ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, JEMA, Brewlytics,
GIScience, or Statistical tools

- Experience in programming for web interfaces and geodatabase
development using .NET, Python, C++, or Java

- Prior experience with maintaining or developing databases

- Proficiency in visualizing data through Matrix or Network Analytics,
graphical data tools, and creating operational pictures that support
assessments and intelligence products