Data Scientist - Mid Level

Key Skills

C# Programming, C++, Lucene, Machine learning techniques, Python Programming, REST API, SoapUI

Job Description

As one of the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT providers, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our 22,000 employees “Do The Can’t Be Done”, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Peraton’s National Programs Business Intelligence Systems & Applications Operating Unit has a need for an experienced Data Scientist to support its SITE III DO contract charged with the orchestration, sustainment, and evolution of a portfolio of mission critical applications and services supporting a major Directorate within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). The SITE III DO contract is designed to establish and ensure a multi-discipline approach to requirements engineering, solutions engineering, scheduling, reliability, resiliency, services development, integration, test and evaluation, maintainability and analysis across the National apparatus of Defense Intelligence, Combatant Commands, supporting Partner Nations and other Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection, correlation and dissemination. Our support team applies best practices in architecture design, data science, cloud services, DevSecOps and platform integration to develop, sustain and continually evolve the global U.S. human intelligence apparatus and supporting partners.

What you'll do:

The Data Scientist – Mid Level will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

• Involved in the analysis of unstructured and semi-structured data, including latent semantic indexing (LSI), entity identification and tagging, complex event processing (CEP), and the application of analysis algorithms on distributed, clustered, and cloud-based high-performance infrastructures.
• Exercises creativity in applying non-traditional approaches to large-scale analysis of unstructured data in support of high-value use cases visualized through multi-dimensional interfaces.
• Handle processing and index requests against high-volume collections of data and high-velocity data streams.
• Ability to make discoveries in the world of big data.
• Requires strong technical and computational skills - engineering, physics, mathematics, coupled with the ability to code design, develop, and deploy sophisticated applications using advanced unstructured and semi-structured data analysis techniques and utilizing high-performance computing environments.
• Ability to utilize advance tools and computational skills to interpret, connect, predict and make discoveries in complex data and deliver recommendations for business and analytic decisions.
• Experience with software development, either an open-source enterprise software development stack (Java/Linux/Ruby/Python) or a Windows development stack (.NET, C#, C++).
• Experience with data transport and transformation APIs and technologies such as JSON, XML, XSLT, JDBC, SOAP and REST.
• Experience with Cloud-based data analysis tools including Hadoop and Mahout, Acumulo, Hive, Impala, Pig, and similar.
• Experience with visual analytic tools like Microsoft Pivot, Palantir, or Visual Analytics.
• Experience with open-source textual processing such as Lucene, Sphinx, Nutch or Solr.
• Experience with entity extraction and conceptual search technologies such as LSI, LDA, etc.
• Experience with machine learning, algorithm analysis, and data clustering.

Qualifications

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5

Required Qualifications:

• Requires Bachelor's degree in related field of study with 10 or more years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• TS/SCI with active polygraph
• Python scripting, Pandas, Excel
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Data Analysis, Engineering and Enrichment
• Strong testing and verification skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high visibility environment
• Full time work in a SCIF is required, but hours are flexible

Desired Qualifications:

• Security+ or other IAT II/III level certification that is currently active
• ArcGIS automation and modeling
• Experience with SAFEHOUSE web GIS platform

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Target Salary Range

$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.