Data Scientist - Mentorship and Training

Company Overview

Swift is a privately held, mission‑driven and employee‑focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe. The position is located in McLean, VA.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver onboarding and upskilling programs for data scientists.
• Design and teach/facilitate in‑person trainings, including full‑day classroom sessions and 1–2‑hour deskside trainings.
• Author and refine training materials and playbooks that make complex topics approachable.
• Establish and champion best practices for version control (Git/GitFlow), code review, and continuous integration for data science teams.
• Document tools, packages, and methodologies with Sphinx.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate mission needs into training, tooling improvements, and backlog priorities.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of data science experience.
• Advanced Python proficiency.
• Expertise writing complex, performant SQL across multiple data sources; comfortable with schema exploration and query optimization.
• Expertise with Git‑based workflows (branches, PRs, code reviews).
• Proficiency with Linux fundamentals (shell, filesystem, SSH) and Conda environment management.
• Fluency with Jupyter Notebooks for exploration, demos, and reproducible training assets.
• Demonstrated ability to debug code and data issues.
• Exceptional communication skills and a coaching mindset; able to explain technical concepts clearly to junior data scientists in visual, verbal, and written formats.
• Proven experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and incorporating feedback into iterative improvements.
• Desire to learn new data science techniques or software and prepare trainings.
• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.

Desired Experience

• Elastic Stack familiarity (Elasticsearch indexing/search patterns, Kibana visualizations, Logstash/Filebeat pipelines).
• Apache Spark (PySpark) for large‑scale data processing and performance tuning.
• FastAPI for building well‑documented, testable services that expose models and analytics.
• Docker and microservices fundamentals.
• ETL/ELT design patterns and data workflow orchestration.
• Sphinx for generating maintainable, versioned documentation from source.
• Understanding of API security and certificates.
• Experience with the client’s Data Science environment.
• Knowledge and implementation of Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLMs.
• Experience with web development through Gradio, Streamlit, etc.

Pay

Pay Range: $49,996.80 – $290,004.00. Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed or implied final compensation. Official compensation depends on factors such as level of position, job complexity, geographic location, experience, education, certifications, contract labor categories, and wage rates.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time‑off benefits.
• $5,000 referral bonus for any hired referral candidate, paid at the new hire’s 90‑day mark.