Data Scientist - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Data Science

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Data Visualization, Microsoft Excel, Python (Programming Language)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Data Scientist, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Data Scientist joining our team!

HOW A DATA SCIENTIST WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

• The Contractor shall perform end-to-end quality assurance of data feeds and data sets.
• The Contractor shall provide support for data triage and assessment at the Sponsor’s site.
• The Contractor shall identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems.
• The Contractor shall attend regular stand-up meetings.
• The Contractor shall provide input to code reviews.
• The Contractor shall cross-train on existing collection tools.
• The Contractor shall support building, monitoring, alerting, and reporting out (e.g. dashboards).
• The Contractor shall support new use cases.
• The Contractor shall research and document options for collecting or aggregating data from a variety of web based and internal Sponsor platforms.
• The Contractor shall evaluate web based platforms’ ability to detect or deny access.
• The Contractor shall make recommendations on approaches to acquire information.
• The Contractor shall use appropriate tools and computer programming languages, such as Python scripts, to collect and process data from a variety of sources.
• The Contractor shall use Sponsor-network APIs to programmatically access data.
• The Contractor shall create, maintain, and enhance systems in support of data exploitation.
• The Contractor shall create or improve custom collection scripts written in Python
•  The Contractor shall create or improve scripts leveraging APIs for collection needs.
• The Contractor shall automate data clean-up and conditioning of collected data.
• The Contractor shall automate data management and dissemination steps.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience programming in Python.
• Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats, including MS Excel
• Demonstrated experience with a variety of database tools, such as SQL and Presto, and data lakes/S3 data.
• Demonstrated experience building and demonstrating data visualization tools, and dashboards especially Elasticsearch, Kibana, Tableau, Apache Superset and PowerBI.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex, technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, or written form.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing questions, formulating requirements, determining suitable analytic approaches, evaluating results, and communicating findings to partners and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience translating complex technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, written form.
• Demonstrated openness to feedback and ability to collaborate well with colleagues to develop customer-tailored products.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML such as natural language processing in a production environment
• Demonstrated experience developing and refining statistical models ,inferential statistics, and hypothesis testing.
• Demonstrated experience with data management tools, such as Hadoop, MapReduce, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience conducting data science using the Apache Zeppelin and Jupyter notebooks platforms and Spark/Pyspark.
• Demonstrated experience developing MS Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code.
• Demonstrated experience supporting traditional and commercial targeting efforts
• Demonstrated experience programming in the R language

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• Experience: 10+ years
• Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• US Citiz