Junior Data Scientist

About the Role

Altamira Technologies provides innovative solutions to the U.S. National Security community, serving defense, intelligence, and homeland security sectors worldwide. As a Junior Data Scientist, you will design, implement, and maintain data pipelines, interpret and analyze complex data sets, and manage machine learning (ML) projects using cloud-native platforms and advanced ML solutions.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and analyze data using exploratory mathematical and statistical techniques based on the scientific method.
• Coordinate research and analytic activities utilizing structured and unstructured data, employing programming to clean, massage, and organize data.
• Experiment against data points, provide insights based on results, and offer previously undiscovered solutions to data challenges.
• Coordinate with Data Engineers to build data environments for data identified by other professionals.
• Apply and develop scientific methodology, statistics, and algorithms to discover and frame relevant problems, hypotheses, and opportunities.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive modeling, natural language processing (NLP), robotic process automation (RPA), text mining, clustering, forecasting, and other advanced statistical techniques.
• Design and automate processes to facilitate data manipulation and analysis.
• Manage and integrate data across dissimilar data sets.
• Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data using frameworks like Spark and Hadoop.
• Perform statistical modeling and create data visualizations using tools like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and R Shiny.
• Research, design, and implement algorithms to solve complex problems.
• Program using R, Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas), or similar analytical languages.
• Perform data engineering, data processing, and modeling using cloud-based platforms such as Databricks, IBM Cloud Pak, Cloudera, and Snowflake.
• Communicate complex concepts and hypotheses to non-technical audiences through digital storytelling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field (required); Master’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related fields (preferred).
• Proficient with one or more programming languages (Java, C++, Python, R, etc.).
• Proficient in Agile Development and Git Operations.
• Demonstrated experience applying data science methods to real-world data problems.
• Minimum SECRET clearance required to start, with willingness and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance (TS/SCI preferred).

Location: Fort Bragg, North Carolina