Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to work in our Fairfax, VA office.

ECS seeks a Senior Data Scientist to support a project team responsible for managing an Artificial Intelligence initiative. The work is performed in a multidisciplinary and collaborative team environment. This role will report to a project lead and will focus on developing and applying methods to analyze data for Artificial Intelligence development across multiple classification levels and environments.

Position Responsibilities:

• Participate in technical exchange meetings and discussions with our customers, vendors, and internal team to help coordinate, prioritize, and track datasets supporting AI efforts.
• Work in person at the required office and, as needed, classified locations with team members and customer stakeholders.
• Help cultivate an environment that promotes customer service, excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork.
• Mentor and train junior data scientists to learn and correctly apply data science skills.
• Develop and apply methods to identify, collect, process, and analyze large volumes of data to build and enhance GEOINT processes, and systems.
• Perform mathematical and statistical analysis of data to identify trends and generate observations that will be placed in reports for leadership.
• Document and visualize data both temporally and spatially to assist in data integrity checks, analyze data, and display analytical assessments.
• Understand and interpret data from a variety of geospatial data sources and disparate datasets.
• Develop and document data workflows, assisting stakeholders with data management tasks, procedures, and best practices across multiple environments and classification levels.
• Independently identify, document, and address technical challenges.
• Automate analytic workflows using python or other coding languages
• Provide advanced data visualization to convey findings and communicate insights utilizing GIS or visualization software capabilities.

We are a rapidly growing company that considers our employees and teams to be our most important assets. Our team environment provides opportunities for growth to individuals who are motivated to excel. Our growing program works with the most forward-leaning technologies and extraordinary customers who are thought and action leaders within the AI/ML domain. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package to the right person for this key position.

Required Skills

• Active Secret Clearance and ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance
• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or 4+ years of experience.
• Minimum 7+ years of overall relevant experience.
• Demonstrated advanced experience with Python (i.e. numpy, pandas, matplotlib libraries).
• Demonstrated advanced experience in SQL and NoSQL technologies.
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency of database principles and technology.
• Demonstrated advanced experience with mathematical, statistical, or scientific data science techniques
• Demonstrated advanced data transformation skills.
• Demonstrated advanced data processing and analytic skills.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud-based database solutions.
• Demonstrated advanced experience text parsing.
• Demonstrated advanced experience in metadata tagging (data storage, processing and & analyzing).
• Demonstrated advanced experience in work with a variety of geospatial data formats.

Desired Skills

• Active Top Secret Clearance.
• Demonstrated experience with JAVA programming language.
• Previous experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or other data management platforms.
• Previous experience with Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) development, particularly computer vision.
• Demonstrated advanced proficiency with the following programs:
• ArcGIS, ArcSDE, ArcPro, ArcGIS Online.
• PostgreSQL, Postgis, PgAdmin.
• Application programming interfaces (APIs).

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ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.