Sr Data Scientist

Responsibilities

• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Plans and leads major technology assignments.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
• May supervise others.
• Collaborate with Counterterrorism investigators, analysts, and professional staff, often directly engaging non-technical personnel to understand functional needs/issues/gaps, recommend solutions, and develop technically feasible tools in a timely manner.
• Build and/or support preparation of basic technical, business, and end user documentation.
• Identify and recommend remedies, and/or implement solutions which enhance existing software and systems capabilities, performance, and security and/or introduce efficiencies or automation into stakeholder workflows.
• Perform programming (e.g. Python), code refactoring, systems operations, and/or design.
• Evaluate COTS, GOTS, OSS, and other software and systems to implement algorithmically complex data and technology solutions.
• Contribute to the technical work program of one or more projects.
• Provide thought leadership and technical and analytical expertise to the Government and vendor project team.
• Ensure vendor project team adherence to quality standards.
• Manage the integration of vendor tasks, track project progress, and conduct project analysis resulting in appropriate metrics when requested.

Qualifications

• Eight years of relevant experience in Computer Science.
• Demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the following: Scoping, Planning, and Completing full lifecycle engineering projects.
• Manage development and implementation of projects assigned to contractor staff.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in one (1) or more of the following areas: User interface/User experience (UI/UX), Front-end engineering, API development, Data Engineering.
• Four years of relevant Program Management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred.
• Top Secret Security Clearance and must submit to a Full Scope polygraph examination.
• Preferred Experience: Managing, communicating and contributing to enterprise architecture efforts, engineering trade-off analysis and feasibility studies, proof-of-concept prototypes to explore technical implementation options and issues, engineering reviews, technical design and implementation bringing commercial best practices to bear.
• Managing, communicating and contributing to enterprise architecture efforts, engineering trade-off analysis and feasibility studies, proof-of-concept prototypes to explore technical implementation options and issues, engineering reviews, technical design and implementation bringing commercial best practices to bear.
• Manage the integration of vendor tasks, track project progress, and conduct project analysis resulting in appropriate metrics when requested.