Data Scientist

Responsibilities

 

Peraton is seeking a Data Science Professional to provide support for our NAVAIR customer in Lexington Park/Patuxent River, MD. Note: This is a hybrid position; however, must live within a commutable distance to the worksite. 

 

 

You will work on a variety of topics within the Advanced Analytics and Innovation (AA&I) Branch.  The primary topics involve the development of highly sophisticated dashboards, visualizations and websites, as well as using advanced analytics and machine learning to conduct data analysis.  This branch supports various Program Management Air (PMA) offices, Air Systems Group, Command, Fleet Readiness Centers, and other DOD services.. These products will leverage business intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI to visualize the PMAs reliability, maintenance, and supply data in an actionable format. These products will also leverage an array of web development and data science tools such as CDSW (Cloudera Data Science Workbench), GitLab, JIRA, AWS (Amazon Web Services) & NUCLEUS, and JAVA. This is a full-time position. Telework will be the norm with the occasional need to be in the office. Be part of an exciting team making a difference for the US Naval Air Forces.

 

 

What you will do: 

 

Your primary duties will involve using data science models, techniques, and methods to assist in analyzing scientific and business operations problems across the Naval Aviation Enterprise.  Topics include:

• Research, design, and develop user-centric interactive reports, dashboards, and visualization solutions that provide business insights to PMA or AA&I branch decision makers using Tableau, Qlik, or Power BI.
• You are expected to be proficient in the utilization of scientific tools, including: QLIK, Tableau, R, Python, SQL and other programming and dashboarding utilities. You will also be involved in analyzing platforms and creating algorithms to detect failures within the aircraft system.
• Design, build, integrate, and manage the architecture or framework used in various data science projects to maintain flow of data between servers and applications.
• Gather, clean, preprocess, and analyze relevant data from various sources to support modeling and decision-making. Apply statistical analysis and data mining techniques to extract insights and validate model assumptions. Write code and develop scripts to automate data transmission between different data sources or environments.
• Apply knowledge of Machine learning, Natural language processing and other programming techniques, to the collection, processing, compilation, computation, analysis, editing, and presentation of statistical data.
• This work does not require the application of professional knowledge of Air Systems Group.
• Analyze historical data and trends to forecast or predict future outcomes and optimize the model’s outputs.

Qualifications

 

 

What you will need: 

• Minimum requirements are a BS degree in Data Science/ Computer Science/ Mathematics/Statistics/ (desired), Engineering/Operations Research Analyst (acceptable) and 2 years of related  professional experience, MS degree with 0 years or 6 years with no degree.
• Proficiency in Python, R, or SQL
• Proficiency in BI tools such as Tableau, Qlik, or Power BI
• Proficiency in JIRA and GitLab .
• Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain a DOD Secret security clearance.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with aviation data.
• Experience with JAVA and front-end development
• Advanced Tableau data visualization experience
• Scrum master or lead certified
• Scrum master or lead experience
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills; including presentation skills capable of defending a technical position and/or recommendation.
• Self-directed team player with proven ability to deliver tasks timely and efficiently, and a demonstrated ability to interact professionally with all levels of management
• High level problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Flexible and able to work in a dynamic environment
• Experience in the aerospace, and/or defense industries

 

 

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional t