Mid-Level to Senior-Level (6 to 18 years experience)
Overview and Deliverables: The team seeks a highly motivated Data Scientist to join our team to provide the following expert support to an Intelligence Community (IC) client:
- Assess the ability of IC collection and analytic reporting to answer our nation’s critical intelligence problems.
- Serve on a multi-contractor team responsible for data retrieval, analysis, reporting and visualization of intelligence collection and reporting data.
- Analyze data in context of intelligence issues and known collection and analytic priorities.
- Develop and implement advanced data visualization tools to visualize complex datasets.
- Be responsible for data analysis, reporting, and presenting data and progress reports to clients.
- Work with representatives from across the Community and present findings at related meetings as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a quantitative field.
- Demonstrated experience data retrieval from IC collection and analytic reporting databases.
- Understanding of meta-data tagging standards and practices.
- Provide robust graphical data visualizations and recommendations for quantitative data analysis selection and collection.
- Familiarity with databases and database query languages such as MySQL, Access, and SQL.
- Experience with Python and other programming languages.
- Hands-on experience with data manipulation
- Demonstrated ability to use Tableau, Tableau Prep, and Tableau Server;
- Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and brief visuals of complex data
- Understand and have a working knowledge of big data capabilities; focus on mission needs, requirements gathering and prioritization, data prep and structuring, understanding data sets, interface(s), and be familiar with agency-specific and IC applications.
- Ability to develop concise executive level presentations detailing findings.
- Ability to interface effectively with client and work constructively on a team.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Knowledge of roles and missions of respective IC agencies, and Do
**Desired Skills:
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- Advanced degree in a quantitative field.
- Broad domain knowledge across multiple intelligence missions and disciplines (e.g., SIGINT, GEOINT, HUMINT, OSINT, and MASINT, etc.).
- Exquisite ability to engage another party who may have another position and to blend that position into a Community voice;
- Experience with cloud computing environments and data science tools such as AWS, SageMaker, and Databricks.
- Experience with machine learning techniques, especially as applied to text analytics and natural language processing.
- Experience with NLP algorithms such as LSA, LDA, and QNLI.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and GitHub.
- Knowledge of software engineering and structured software development.
- Knowledge of and experience using mission analytical tools.
- Familiarity with role and missions of IC elements, and their mission priority frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability performing statistical data analysis.
- Proficiency in with one or more statistical analysis packages (SAS, SPSS, Matlab and R)
Clearance: Candidates need to be TS/SCI-cleared with polygraph.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Paid time off
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Life insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Referral program
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account