Data Scientist

As an Expert Data Scientist, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Able to develop & use exceptionally complex concepts & processes that span multiple organizations and disciplines
• Performs multiple tasks at specialist level
• Will be recognized as a SME
• Evaluates & recommends new technology & processes based upon cost, risk, mission
• Supports the Chief Data Office with building data storage architecture, including schema, formatting, indexing, accessing, retrieving, and maintaining data integrity.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Must have experience as a data scientist using imagery data
• Knowledge and experience with data management, transformation, visualization, analysis, and organization tools and techniques
• Knowledge and experience with Search tools, Search results organization and the implications of metadata organization, indexing, catalog content
• Overall Data Wrangler – ability to demonstrate organized structure for data when there appears to be none due to differences in data types and sources
• Interdisciplinary bridge builder who understands the Internet, databases, analytics, visualization, and data curation
• Ability to categorize the data and metadata to build the metadata application profile.
• Knowledge of metadata standards
• Recognized as Subject Matter Expert for work with Information/Library Science
• Experience in GIS-related applications
• Experience with using scripting languages to conduct common data analysis tasks for exploration, conditioning, and advanced analytics
• Knowledge of visual programming or object-oriented modeling workflows to automate data acquisition
• Ability to manipulate data from multiple structured and unstructured data sources
• Ability to identify and appropriately evaluate a wide range of existing methods, models and algorithms in familiar domains for a variety of mission driven problems while recognizing the capabilities and limitations of each method
• Experience with Apache Hadoop, HUE, Hive, Pig, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Tableau
• Knowledge of programming languages, including Java, Python, R, or SQL

Clearance Required: TS/SCI CI Poly

Minimum Years of Education and Experience: Master’s degree plus 4 years’ experience, Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years’ experience, Associates degree plus 12 years’ experience, or a minimum of 15 years’ experience, in relevant field

Preferred:

• AI/ML experience

Pay: From $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Work Location: In person