Data Scientist

Geo Owl • Springfield, VA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Geo Owl is seeking an Expert Data Scientist for the NGA Maven Program. This role is crucial for maintaining and evolving the AI/ML pipeline's complex, multi-domain data architecture. The Data Scientist will be responsible for the data backend, enabling preprocessing across security domains and systems. Key duties include building pipelines, managing databases, enforcing governance, and solving complex cross-domain data challenges. The position requires experience with databases, cloud architectures, and compliance with data standards, ensuring data operations across security domains and systems are maintained. The role involves building and sustaining pipelines, managing database infrastructure, enforcing data governance, supporting cross-domain solutions, and ensuring training data is accessible, accurate, and compliant at scale.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Minimum 18 experience points required (see experience point calculation below)
• 4+ years of experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures
• Experience leveraging APIs to query systems and migrate data
• Experience with programming languages including Python, JavaScript, or Java
• Experience developing, sustaining, and monitoring operational data pipelines supporting multiple data formats and interfaces
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences

Nice To Haves

• Experience with NGA IT enterprise solutions (NGA enterprise platforms), Government ATO processes, and government Non-Person Entity (NPE) system access credentials
• Experience implementing processes and tools within an organization using the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe)
• Experience developing dynamic visualizations to monitor pipeline availability, currency, and volumetrics

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain database tables, schemas, and health alerts for emergent sensor data.
• Set up ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and load new imagery data in compliance with government schemas and governance requirements.
• Develop API-based workflows to enable data movement between platforms across security domains.
• Exhibit proficiency in programming APIs and data version control management.
• Monitor data health alerts and pipeline availability; triage issues to ensure training data operations remain optimized and accessible.
• Conduct QC on data holdings — validating format compliance (JSON, parquet, XML, CSV), schema adherence, access controls, and metadata standards.
• Create and maintain government-directed software and computing environments: government-directed system connections, GitLab repositories, development environments for preprocessing work.
• Assess and report data holdings compliance status in written and oral form to government stakeholders.
• Create the necessary infrastructure to store and process data related to emergent sensors: database tables and schemas, data health alerts, and ETL pipelines.
• Develop workflows to enable API-based movement of data related to emergent sensors between platforms.
• Ensure all emergent sensor data adheres to government-directed data schemas, formats, and governance requirements.
• Develop, construct, test, and maintain databases and large-scale, complex data processing systems.
• Clean, prepare, and transform data to support geospatial data pipelines that create curated views of content for IC consumption.
• Support cross-domain solutions using NGA enterprise tooling; manage the generation, approval, and population of data into databases ensuring security compliance.
• Configure and monitor data health alerts to ensure training data operations are optimized and accessible.
• Create and maintain government-directed computing environments (version-controlled code repositories and software environments) to enable preprocessing development activities.

Benefits

• Health Insurance (Geo Owl pays 80%+ of the premium)
• 401k matching
• Dental, Vision, and other supplemental insurance plans available
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance
• Peer-to-Peer spot bonuses
• 120 hours of PTO per year plus federal holidays
• Fully Paid Military Leave: You make your full Geo Owl salary while you are on military duty

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree