Are you looking to be a key member of a small team with big mission impact? Do you enjoy building applications to exploit high-value data? NS2 Mission is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed professional to fill the role of Data Scientist. This position will be joining our team based in the Tysons, VA area.

This position will focus on development for advanced search and data analytics to enable users of our cloud-based application. The developer will be responsible for understanding and improving underlying data models, building new ways to enrich and correlate the data, and communicating system features and concepts to other team members, end users, and program management. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting the development team, debugging various development and O&M processes, and maintaining system documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with fellow team members to understand user requirements, design application features, and build advanced application capabilities for search and discovery.
• Leverage Data Science expertise to craft AI/ML features on structured data, then work with the development team to make those features into application services.
• Assist data engineers with data modeling and ETL processes to make raw data usable within the ecosystem of our search application.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for our systems to continually improve the power, speed, and usability of our services.

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle on cloud infrastructure
• Experience programming in Python, Java, or other related programming languages
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
• Hands on experience working with RESTful API's
• Experience with relational databases and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of software practices and configuration management.
• Experience with JIRA, Git, Artifactory, or related tools
• Experience working on large, mission-critical software projects
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic team environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with person entity resolution across datasets
• Experience with visualization frameworks such as D3.js, V Charts, or Chartkick
• Experience working with Graph databases.
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with Extract, Load, and Transform (ETL) tools
• Experience working in an Agile development environment

Position Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with FSP

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain or maintain a U.S security clearance which requires U.S citizenship.

NS2 Mission is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. NS2 Mission is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that NS2 Mission may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide in your application, with its affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

NS2 Mission maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.