Jr. Data Scientist

Amentum•Springfield, VA

19h

About The Position

Purpose and Impact: As a Junior Data Scientist, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions. Work Schedule: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm

Requirements

Must have experience as a data scientist using imagery data
Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, JavaScript, C++ with documentation for reproducibility
Strong knowledge and experience of visual programming or object-oriented modeling workflows to automate data acquisition
Ability to manipulate data from multiple structured and unstructured data sources
Apply analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance
Ability to conduct data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions
Ability to identify and appropriately evaluate a wide range of existing methods, models and algorithms in familiar domains for a variety of mission driven problems while recognizing the capabilities and limitations of each method
Ability to categorize the data and metadata to build the metadata application profile.
Experience with Apache Hadoop, HUE, Hive, Pig, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Tableau
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years’ experience, or a Master's Degree plus 1-3 years of experience
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 - 3

Nice To Haves

AI/ML experience
Knowledge of metadata standards
Knowledge and experience with Search tools, Search results organization and the implications of metadata organization, indexing, catalog content
Experience in GIS-related applications

Responsibilities

As a Junior Data Scientist, you will work as part of team of data engineers, database developers and visualization specialists to analyze large sets of structured data, looking for anomalies and undiscovered correlations
Perform deep dive analysis into data sets and reports to identify problems or suspected issues with data
Able to develop & use exceptionally complex concepts & processes that span multiple organizations and disciplines
Participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase available data quality and speed of delivery
Participate on an Agile development team, using Scrum techniques, as a contributing development team member
Work with the software engineering team to deploy models that provide ongoing forecasts, optimizations, recommendations, and insights to support the Chief Data Office
Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Benefits

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities.
Offerings include:
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid time off and holidays
Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
Educational reimbursement
Parental leave
Employee stock purchase plan
Tax-saving options
Disability and life insurance
Pet insurance
Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements.
Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.