Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Department: Federal

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Reston, Virginia

Description

Orbis is seeking a senior data scientist to help lead a consulting team supporting our client in the Intelligence Community. On this project, the data scientist will have the opportunity to demonstrate intellectual agility, will have the opportunity to self-start, and enjoy the rapid pace of a small team environment. This is a mission critical project and features the opportunity to interact with a wide range of key stakeholders, including those at senior levels and provide ground level input into the design of a mission facing system. This is an exciting opportunity for an intellectually curious and creative person to work on a project with real impact helping our client develop their system efficiencies and support to mission.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect and elicit requirements from stakeholders at varying levels
• Consult with clients on the development, prioritization and implementation of new data architecture
• Implement new data ingest, databasing, and data analysis solutions for the customer to drive analysis and mission success for the customer
• Demonstrate creativity to develop recommendations for the building and implementation of a new system
• Work along a small team to perform rapid development to solve customer problems-often being the only data professional on a project team
• Provide project updates in a timely and succinct manner
• Brief analytic findings to project managers and analysts in casual and formal settings

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• A Bachelor's degree is required for this position.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a consulting role in the IC.

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Poly
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python
• At least one year experience in developing and implementing data architecture or ETL processes
• Familiarity in using and standing up diverse database types such as SQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and Neo4j
• Demonstrated ability to shape technology implementation to fit mission requirements
• Ability to stand up your own coding development environment with minimal assistance on various computer systems to facilitate data analysis (i.e. Anaconda, Jupiter Notebook, Spyder, etc.)
• Experience performing data parsing and analysis through custom scripted solutions
• Experience utilizing full text database, indexing, or federated search solutions to perform customer analysis

• Experience developing in an airgapped environment
• Experience working with computer networking data and performing computer network analysis
• Familiarity with technical targeting tools and analysis
• Experience in graph analysis and tools to perform it (i.e. NetworkX, Neo4j, etc.)
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) and tools to perform it (i.e. SpaCy, etc.)
• Experience performing geospatial analysis on large datasets utilizing database and code library solutions (PostGIS, GeoPandas, etc.)

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Routine video conference and/or in-person meetings.
• Ability to attend planned meetings within the Washington Metro Area region.