Data Scientist Senior

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact

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TheIntel Security Sectordeliverstechnology-enabled services and mission software capabilities for defense and intel customers in the areas of cyberlogistics security operations and decision analytics.

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The National Security Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for aSenior Data you a Senior Data Scientist that likes to performcutting edgedata analytics Would you like to support a major program advancing the state of the art in mission-focused big data analytics and predictive analytics Ifso you will bedelivering advanced data science capabilities to push forward national securityobjectives swiftlyproduceand analyze resultsdisseminatefindings and contribute to presentations with actionable intelligence successful candidate will work on projects to design develop and deploy data science and machine learning capabilities and productstosupportDIA/NDOCOSINT production on behalf of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE). This position will be located at one of our customer sites in Bethesda MD; Reston VA; or Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling DC.

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Responsibilities Include:

• Work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists as well as a larger team of software developers network engineers senior investigators program managers researchers and data analysts to produce and analyze resultsdisseminatefindings and contribute to publications and presentations.

• Work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data covering national security cyber security business intelligence online social media human behavior and more.

• Support multiple simultaneous projects and take open-ended or high-level guidance independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant and package and deliver the findings to a non-technical audience.

• Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity quantitative acumen and customer-focus toidentifynovel sources of data across a range of fields to improve the performance of predictive algorithms and to encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified highly motivated team.

• Leverage your strong background in research design exploratory analysis quantitative methods user interface application design and experience with customer outreach and engagement.

• Provide data preprocessing quality checks data integration andvisualizationcreation

• Developdashboards withtools like Tableau or Power BI and apply AI/ML modules to unstructured data analysis.

Clearance Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain andmaintainTS/SCI with Polygraph.

Required Experience Skills and Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Information Systems or related technical discipline.

• Minimum 8 years of experience in the field with at least aportionof the experience within the last 2 years.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain andmaintainTS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Due to the nature of the government contracts we support US Citizenship is required.

• Proficiencyin one or more scripting languages such as R or Python.

• Experience working with a hybrid team of analyst engineers and developers to conduct research and build and deploy complex but easy-to-use algorithms and analytical platforms.

• Previousexperience performing research and development in data analytics or big data.

• Track recordof active learning and creative problem solving.

• Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements anddetermineoptimum cost-effective solutions.

Preferred Experience Skills and Education:

• Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Information Systems or related technical as a substitute to theMastersdegreeBachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Information Systems or related technical discipline and 5 years of related senior experience for a total of 17 years.

• Minimum 12 years of experience in the field with at least aportionof the experience within the last 2 years.

• A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customersdemonstratingprogressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.

• Significant experiencedealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source publicly available information (PAI); forensic media (i.e. DOMEX); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics.

• Significant experiencewith knowledge graphs and related technology such as neo4j.

• Significant experiencewith databases such as SQL NoSQL and specifically Elasticsearch.

• Experience blending analytical methodologies andleveragingexisting COTS/GOTS/FOSS tools in an unconventional manner.

• Familiarityutilizingcontainerization and container orchestration technology and approaches such as Docker and Kubernetes in development and deployment environments.

• Familiarity using gitdvcmlflow and other version control technologies.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS/C2S).

• Familiarity with optimizing machine learning software to take advantage of GPUs.

• Experience creating dashboards and prototype web applications with technologies such as Kibana Apache SupersetStreamlitGradio Plotly Dash etc.

• Experience writing REST andgRPCAPIs in technologies such asFastAPI Flask etc.

At Leidos the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that provide them with an opportunity to thrive professionally and personally. For us helping you grow your career is good business. Were excited to learn more about you.

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