Data Scientist

Job Description

Description

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development and deployment, targeting and intelligence analysis, systems engineering and integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community (IC), is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives, while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance.

SAIC’s National Intelligence Community (NIC) Business Unit, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking a Data Scientist who fill focus on business analytics, metrics collection, and analysis efforts to assist the management team in addressing questions on work force characteristics, workforce productivity and output, and diverse business processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Establish working data sets, configurations, and profiles to support metrics analysis
• Support development of automated data ingest processing and applications and develop scripts to ingest and transform data
• Maintain data ingest and transformation scripts and develop scripts to establish direct connections to various systems
• Support brainstorming sessions, requirement development sessions, and prototyping solutions
• Support dissemination of analytic products, including ad hoc reports and metrics as deemed necessary to answer immediate needs

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph
• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline. Note that years of experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in the following:
• Utilizing relevant programming languages, to include Python
• Configuring and maintain cloud infrastructure, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Maintaining and administering Microsoft SharePoint sites
• Interpreting data models and developing database structures
• Translating customer requirements into system specifications
• Implementing data management, data engineering, and application development
• Utilizing query databases and performing statistical analysis
• Implementing design and architecture principles
• Creating examples, prototypes, and demonstrations
• Using version control systems, such as Github

Desired: 

• Translating complex, technical finding into a narrative, such as telling a story with the data, in graphical, verbal, or written form
• Developing data visualizations
• Creative problem solving skills to address procedural and administrative issues within the assigned problem set.
• Using Data Management Tools including Hadoop tools, MapReduce, NoSQL, Tableau, Oracle databases.

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 24,000 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 $6.9 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.