Leidos - Arlington, VA
posted 5 months ago
Leidos is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with TS/SCI clearance to join our dynamic team in Arlington, VA. This role is pivotal in advancing the state of the art in mission-focused big data analytics and predictive analytics. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for delivering advanced data science capabilities that support national security objectives. Your work will involve swiftly producing and analyzing results, disseminating findings, and contributing to presentations that provide actionable intelligence insights. You will engage in projects that require designing, developing, and deploying data science and machine learning capabilities and products. The successful candidate will work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists, software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts. Together, you will design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform that produces and analyzes results, disseminates findings, and contributes to publications and presentations. You will also work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data related to national security, cyber security, business intelligence, online social media, and human behavior. In this role, you will support multiple simultaneous projects, taking open-ended or high-level guidance to independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant. You will package and deliver your findings to a non-technical audience, leveraging your intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel sources of data across various fields. Your goal will be to improve the performance of predictive algorithms and encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified and motivated team. To excel in this position, you will need a strong background in research design, exploratory analysis, quantitative methods, and user interface application design, along with experience in customer outreach and engagement.