Data Scientist

Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to support highly visible and mission-critical data collection and analysis efforts in Chantilly, VA. This role will focus on developing tailored solutions that accelerate the secure, reliable, and timely delivery of open-source data, information, and insights.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of Python development, AI/ML, data engineering, AWS, and geospatial experience and be comfortable working with complex datasets that vary widely in format, structure, and schema.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with technical leadership to architect, develop, deploy, and maintain fast-turnaround capabilities supporting high-priority collection efforts.
• Strategically apply AI/ML techniques to extract, process, format, analyze, and expose relevant content through indexed search tools.
• Work with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, including raw text, audio, images, video, documents, CSV, Parquet, Avro, JSON, JSONL, XML, and other evolving data formats.
• Provide data engineering support, including cleaning, transforming, modeling, and formatting data from known and unknown sources.
• Develop solutions for processing and analyzing geospatial data.
• Move data between cloud storage environments in support of critical requirements.
• Create and maintain capabilities within an AWS environment using approved cloud services.
• Build and manage AWS resources, including EC2, Lambda, S3, and IAM.
• Validate collected and processed data to ensure it meets required formats and quality standards.
• Collaborate with technical teams, mission partners, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions meet defined requirements.
• Maintain source code within GitHub and provide clear documentation for code, deployment, and execution.
• Perform ongoing operations and maintenance to adapt solutions to changing technologies, collection targets, data formats, schemas, and naming conventions.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Demonstrated professional experience with Python.
• Experience with geospatial software, programming packages, and geospatial data formats.
• Hands-on experience creating and managing AWS resources, including:
  • EC2
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3
  • IAM policies and permissions
• Experience using GitHub for source code management.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience deploying AWS applications using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
  AWS CDK experience is specifically desired; Ansible and Terraform are not considered substitutes.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Experience developing, integrating with, or maintaining search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Lucene, or Amazon OpenSearch.
• Experience creating and programmatically working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• AWS certifications such as:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex data problems and can move quickly from an evolving requirement to a functional technical solution. The right candidate will be comfortable working with unfamiliar datasets, applying AI/ML where appropriate, and developing scalable cloud-based solutions in a fast-paced mission environment.

If you have a strong background in Python, AWS, data engineering, AI/ML, and geospatial data and hold an active TS/SCI with Polygraph, we’d love to connect.

Benefits

This position offers a highly competitive, employer-supported benefits package, including:

• 5 weeks of PTO plus birthday leave

• 11 floating holidays

• 401(k) with 10% employer contribution

• Multiple medical plan options through Anthem, including:

  • Platinum PPO national plan

  • Gold PPO national plan

  • Gold HMO HSA national plan

• Employer-paid dental coverage through Delta Dental PPO Plus Premier

• Employer-paid vision coverage through VSP / DeltaVision

• Employer-paid Life and AD&D coverage at 2x salary, up to $400,000

• Optional voluntary Life and AD&D coverage from $10,000 to $500,000, not to exceed 5x salary

• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, covering 60% of salary up to $2,500

• Employer-paid Long-Term Disability, covering 60% of salary up to $10,000 per month

• Health Savings Account availability, depending on selected health plan

• $1,000 annual Lifestyle Savings Account

• $5,000 annual professional development reimbursement for degrees, training, and certifications

• $1,000 annual technology reimbursement

• Candidate referral bonus program, up to $10,000

• Discretionary profit sharing

• Discretionary performance bonus opportunities

• New contract bonus opportunities, up to $10,000

• Employer-paid access to online training through Udemy and Paylocity

• Optional pet insurance through Pets Best

• Access to Working Advantage employee discounts and rewards programs at no cost

About the Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a Full Stack Software Developer with strong cloud, data analytics, and application development experience to support high-impact mission work. The selected candidate will contribute to modern, scalable, and secure software solutions that improve data processing, analytics, search, automation, and enterprise digital architecture across a mission-critical environment.