Data Scientist, Data Targeter

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Planning and organization, SQL Server

Job Description

SAIC, a leading provider of systems development & deployment, targeting & intelligence analysis, systems engineering & integration, and training capabilities and solutions for the Intelligence Community, is seeking creative and dedicated professionals to fulfill their career goals and objectives while delivering mission excellence on programs of national importance. Join our team today as we Redefine Ingenuity!

SAIC is seeking a Data Targeter able to coordinate with mission partners to understand and prioritize data needs, interpret data visualizations and other analytic tools to understand current data holdings, identify and take action to pursue data sources to fulfill data requirements, and perform data evaluation to ensure quality, integrity, and suitability for ingestion into customer systems. The candidate will bring knowledge of data analytics along with development skills to create methodologies, tools, scripts, and analytics to automate and enhance analytical processes to bring additional insights to Targeters from large complex datasets. The position requires a creative thinker who is able to rapidly learn the principles of scientific and technical fields in order to apply them in novel ways to the Sponsor’s problem sets. The team receives diverse tasking which could include leveraging existing APIs to data sources, scraping website HTML files, building locally run Python/Flask applications, applying and training machine learning models, performing optical character recognition or object detection from images/video, and/or providing ETL support for local applications and solutions. The Data Targeter must be able to work both as a member of a team, and independently, under minimal supervision and direction.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years of experience conducting technical targeting analysis -OR- 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience working with Sponsor data types and tools
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience conducting analysis of multiple sources of intelligence
• Experience using open source data to perform analysis
• Experience working both independently and as part of a team
• Experience in using data visualization tools
• Minimum of 1 year experience using SQL or other querying language
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience brokering requirements across organizations

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.