EO Exploitation Specialist/Data Scientist, Senior

Castalia Systems•Springfield, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Castalia Systems is seeking a (Electro-Optical) Exploitation Specialist/Data Scientist, Senior, to support our client. This role involves assisting in the creation of data pipelines, developing workflows for data movement, ensuring data adheres to government standards, and determining data pre-processing methods for labeling and model testing.

Requirements

4+ years of experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures
Experience leveraging APIs to query systems and migrate data
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences.
Experience with programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java
Experience developing and sustaining operational data pipelines supporting multiple data formats and interfaces.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with NGA IT enterprise solutions (e.g., NGA CORE, NGA MLOps), Government Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and Government Non-Person Entity (NPE) certificates.
Experience implementing processes, standards, and tools within an organization based on the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise.
Experience developing dynamic visualizations to monitor availability, currency and volumetrics of operational data pipelines

Responsibilities

Assist in the creation of the necessary data pipelines to store and process data related to emergent sensors and platforms.
This includes creation of any database tables and schemas, establishing relevant data health alerts, and the setup of data pipelines to support Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) of all data related to the emergent sensors.
Develop workflows to enable API-based movement of data related to the sensors between data platforms as directed by the government.
Ensure all sensor data adheres to Government directed data schemas, formats, and governance requirements
Assess potential differences in metadata, data format, and data structure characteristics in regards to changes to databases, schemas, APIs, and other ETL related processes for the ingestion and movement of data when integrating into the existing data operations pipeline
Determine how to pre-process and standardize the data to match existing data standards or to be transformed into a usable state for labeling and model testing purposes.
This may involve converting between file format types or tiling full-size images into specified sizes or geospatial bounds (chipping), orthorectification, or other types of data standardization, transformation, or manipulation.