Data Scientist

Hybrid | Washington D.C. | 3-4 Days a Week Onsite

Active TS/SCI Clearance Required

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

As a Data Scientist/Cloud Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying secure, maintainable, and reliable software in the form of executable functions (e.g., AWS Lambda or Azure Functions) across a cloud infrastructure that houses sensitive data and models that support mission critical operations. You will be involved in full spectrum analytic technical support to mission operations and the intelligence lifecycle: requirements collection and refinement, translating user requirements into technical requirements, environment configuration, exploratory data analysis, model development, selection, and evaluation, identifying insights from analytic products and then communicating those results to a nontechnical audience. To that end, you will work with cross-functional teams to identify relevant and permissible data sources, access available infrastructure, and to develop analytic products tailored to mission user requirements. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are critical in your ability to collaborate with your technical colleagues and building rapport with the customer.

• Define and communicate a clear product vision for our client’s software products, aligning with user needs and business objectives.
• Create and manage product roadmaps that reflect both innovation and growth strategies.
• Document customer requirements to be used for project management
• Develop technical architecture that support development approach
• Forecast and outline technical tasks that guide weekly development in support of technical projects.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in cloud development, with a focus on one of the major cloud platforms (AWS Preferred)
• Proven experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Agile development experience along with related technologies (e.g., Jira)
• Hands-on experience in object-oriented programming with a language such as C++, Java, or Python; Python as primary programming language

Preferred Requirements

• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle.
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
• Ability, openness, and eagerness to learn.

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required. Candidate with at least 4 years of STEM related work experience with a STEM bachelor’s degree, or 2 years of relevant work experience with a STEM master’s degree

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active TS/SCI clearance is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.