Data Scientist

Job Description

Description

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions. We are more than 26,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a respectful work culture based on diversity, equity, and inclusion that values all contributors. 

SAIC has a career opportunity for an experienced scientists, engineers, and analysts. We are actively staffing a newly awarded, 5 year contract based in the Fort Meade, MD; this position is located in Salt Lake City, UT. This multi-year contract needs you to fill highly skilled mathematicians, data scientists, engineers, collection managers and analysts. As a Data Scientist, you will turn complex data sets into useful information to solve global challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with customers to understand their questions and needs, then dig into their data-rich environment to find the pieces of their information puzzle.
• Explore data from various sources, discover patterns and previously hidden insights to address business problems, and use the right combination of tools and frameworks to turn that set of disparate data points into objective answers to help senior leadership make informed decisions.

Qualifications

Required Experience:

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph
• Degree and minimum years of relevant work experience as follows:
  • AA and 12 years of experience or,
  • BA/BS and 10 years of experience or,
• Experience with Exploratory Data Analysis and Anomaly Detection on unfamiliar data sets, including collaboration
• Experience with Cyber and Network domain, including Host and Network data, including Netflow
• Experience with using Python to perform data analysis, mining, and data visualization
• Experience with the transition of a research capability to an operational product
• Ability to collaborate with end-users to develop advanced analytic use cases, estimate technical levels of effort, and explain the resulting systems in both a person-to-person and automated fashion

Desired Experience:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative analysis field
• Experience with SIGINT, CNO, or cybersecurity operations
• Experience in developing and deploying analytics in a CLI, Web Page, or Web Service Prototype
• Experience in Java development of analytics and web services, including Java build tools, such as Maven, in a classified environment
• Experience with Distributed Batch and Streaming Analytics
• Knowledge of strategic planning for increasing the scope and sustainability of Machine Learning
• Knowledge of Time Series Analysis Graph

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence, and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective, and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 26,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.