Data Scientist, TS//SCI with Counterinteligence Polygraph Required
$140,000–$170,000 year
On-siteAlexandria, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Administer data management tools, configure workflows, and monitor data pipelines for errors while establishing schemas, metadata, and taxonomies. Analyze large, complex datasets to identify trends, develop recurring reports and dashboards, and translate mission requirements into actionable analytical products. Collaborate with engineers, AI/ML teams, and government customers to troubleshoot issues, automate repetitive processes, and support demonstrations in classified environments up to TOP SECRET//SCI. Effectively protect data from disclosure and maintain documentation for all data governance standards.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS//SCI clearance with a Counterintelligence or Lifestyle Polygraph
- 2–5 years of experience in data science, data analytics, data management, business intelligence, or a related technical field
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Library Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Experience administering, configuring, or supporting data management, analytics, database, or enterprise data platforms
- Experience with ontology development and maintenance on technical systems
- Strong SQL skills and experience querying and analyzing relational and/or large-scale datasets
- Strong Python skills for data analysis and automation
- Experience with data cleaning, transformation, validation, and quality assurance
- Developing reports, dashboards, visualizations, and other analytical products
- Understanding of data governance, metadata, data quality, and data lifecycle management
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies or issues in complex datasets
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and work collaboratively with engineering teams
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or other federal mission
- Experience administering enterprise data management or analytics platforms
- Experience with data cataloging, metadata management, data lineage, or data governance tools
- Experience with analytic and visualization platforms such as Dataiku, Data Robot, R, SPSS, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar
- Experience with relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, or cloud data platforms
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools and data integration workflows
- Experience with APIs and automated data ingestion
- Experience with Spark or other distributed data processing technologies
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or other cloud environments
- Experience working with classified, sensitive, or air-gapped data environments
- Experience supporting AI/ML systems, including NLP, LLMs, embeddings, RAG, or information retrieval
- Ability to obtain and maintain additional security clearance accesses to Special Access Programs (SAP) or Access Compensatory Control Measures (ACCM)
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