Job Description
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.
Are you passionate about turning multi-source data into clear insights and training others to do the same? We’re looking for a high-performing Data Scientist to combine hands-on data science with leading training modules and mentoring data scientists. The location of this job is McLean, VA.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver onboarding and upskilling programs for data scientists.
- Design and teach/facilitate in-person trainings to include full day classroom trainings 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), 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
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.
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 client’s Data Science environment
- Knowledge and implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLMs
- Experience with web development through Gradio, Streamlit, etc.
Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at the new hire’s 90-day mark.
We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the recruiting team.
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The Swift Group and Subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Pay Range: $49,996.80 - $290,004.00
Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed and/or implied final compensation or salary for this job opening. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several different factors including, but not limited to: level of position, complexity of job responsibilities, geographic location, work experience, education, certifications, Federal Government contract labor categories, and contract wage rates.
At The Swift Group and Subsidiaries, you will receive comprehensive benefits including but not limited to: healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time off benefits.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | McLean, Virginia |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1973 |
About Company
SWIFT is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. SWIFT enables its users to exchange automated, standardized financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. SWIFT also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest. SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium and has over 24 offices worldwide. In 2014 SWIFT processed more than 5.6 billion FIN messages.
Skills
- Apache Sparkunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Data Processingunmatched
- Data Scienceunmatched
- Data Visualizationunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- Defense Intelligenceunmatched
- Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Elasticsearchunmatched
- Environmental Managementunmatched
- Environmental Sciencesunmatched
- Federal Contractsunmatched
- Federal Governmentunmatched
- File Systemsunmatched
- Gitunmatched
- Government Contractsunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Intelligence Communityunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Product Demonstrationunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Query Optimizationunmatched
- Recruiting/Staffing Agencyunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- SSH (Secure Shell)unmatched
- Security Clearanceunmatched
- Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)unmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Top Secret Clearanceunmatched
- Training Toolsunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- United States Citizenunmatched
- Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
- Virtual Machine (VM)unmatched
- Web Programmingunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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