Analytic Engineer (Data Scientist 3)

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. • Fairfax, VA

15h

About The Position

HII - Mission Technologies is currently seeking an Intermediate-level Analytic Engineer to work out of Fairfax, VA in support of the DoD/DoW Advana War Data Platform designed to aggregate operational, intelligence, logistics, and sensor data from multiple domains, enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) by providing a common data fabric, and support AI/ML applications for predictive analytics, targeting, and mission planning. This position is contingent on contract award

Requirements

• 5 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 3 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; 0 years’ experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Familiarity with creating dashboards using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Databricks SQL and/or Grafana and feature-ready datasets using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and/or Apache Airflow
• Must be Top Secret/SCI eligible
• US Citizenship

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Advana architecture, Palantir Foundry, or similar data integration platforms
• Experience with data governance frameworks and metadata management
• Agile/SAFe delivery experience in secure environments

Responsibilities

• Develops and operates analytic data processing capabilities supporting the War Data Platform (WDP) Core Integration enterprise across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves.
• Builds analytic transformations, query models, and feature-ready datasets using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and Apache Airflow to enable mission analytics for Combatant Commands, Joint Staff elements, and interagency partners.
• Implements structured ingestion and refinement workflows aligned to medallion-architecture bronze, silver, and gold zones, incorporating metadata tagging, lineage tracking, and schema harmonization to strengthen reuse and analytic readiness.
• Applies data quality monitoring techniques including drift detection, rule-based validation, profiling engines, and anomaly scoring to elevate accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across lake environments.
• Configures encryption mechanisms, IAM controls, and audit policies to maintain data integrity under Department of Defense cybersecurity directives.
• Provides Tier-2 analytic support by diagnosing data defects, resolving tooling inconsistencies, triaging pipeline behavior, and producing root-cause analysis reports that guide engineering remediation.
• Collaborates with data engineering, data tooling, platform operations, and governance teams to align analytic datasets with enterprise reference architectures and catalog requirements.
• Develops dashboards using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Databricks SQL, and Grafana to present availability metrics, throughput indicators, drift scores, latency patterns, and enrichment performance.
• Produces documentation covering analytic workflows, model-ready tables, transformation logic, and operational dependencies to support maintainability, onboarding, and analytic mission expansion across all War Data Platform (WDP) Core Integration enclaves.

Benefits

• We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level