Data Scientist

General information

Requisition # R59698 Locations USA-VA-Ashburn Posting Date 04/09/2025 Security Clearance Required Public Trust/Suitability Remote Type Onsite Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

Transform the future of federal services with ManTech! Join a vibrant, energetic team committed to enhancing national security and public services through innovative tech. Since 1968, we’ve partnered with Federal Civilian sectors to deliver impactful solutions. Engage in exciting projects in Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, IT, Data Analytics and more. Ignite your career and drive change. Your journey starts now—innovate and excel with ManTech!

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer oriented Senior Data Scientist SME to join our team in Ashburn, Virginia. This position is onsite two days a week. 

Each day U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace.  The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of solutions to promote efficient trade and travel. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead and perform hands-on data and threat/intel analysis leading to development of analytics solutions (e.g. predictive models, visual analytics reports), to support CBP users conduct law enforcement mission critical activities.

• Demonstrate proficiency in extracting, cleaning, and transforming CBP transactional and associated data sets within an identified problem space to build predictive models as well as develop appropriate supporting documentation.

• Leverage knowledge of a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques to develop, evaluate, and deploy new predictive analytical models that directly inform mission decisions.

• Utilize and explore variety of statistical/modeling tools and languages to compare and assess best performing Machine Learning results.

• Execute projects including those intended to identify patterns and/or anomalies in large datasets; perform automated text/data classification and categorization as well as entity recognition, resolution and extraction; and named entity matching.

Minimum Qualifications:

• HS Diploma/GED and 20+ years or AS/AA and 18+ years or BS/BA and 12+ years or MS/MA/MBA and 9+ years or PhD/Doctorate and 7+ years

• Experience in full-lifecycle development, deployment and monitoring of machine learning models to multiple platforms (on-prem/cloud etc.) and applying advanced analytics solutions to solve complex business problems

• Experience with programming languages including R, Python, Scala, Java, SQL/Spark

• Experience constructing and executing queries to extract data in support of EDA and model development

• Experience with evaluating, implementing and optimizing AI/ML algorithms to address constraints with large and imbalanced datasets.

• Experience with enti