Job Type Full-time Description Primary Location: Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Clearance: Top Secret / CUI Must be a US Citizen *** Contingent upon contract award. Obsidian Solutions Group (OSG) is seeking an Data Scientist - Exploitation Specialist to join the Team! Supporting National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) providing Geospatial Intelligence for our nation's security by ensuring customer success through assured access to GEOINT data, capabilities, and insights. This will include design and application of methods to identify, collect, process, and analyze large volumes of data to build and enhance products, processes, and systems. Specific Responsibilities * Develop methods for querying, visualizing, aggregating, correlating, and analyzing big data across intelligence disciplines.
* Optimize existing databases to speed up the query, input, export, and visualization of data.
* Work with teams in NGA Analysis Operations (AO) Regional, Functional and Agency/CCMD Liaison Offices (collectively referred to as "AO Offices") to develop strategies for exposing new datasets and create migration plans for legacy datasets.
* Build custom solutions (tools, processes, etc.) to automate or assist analytic endeavors as submitted by applicable AO Office leadership and analytic units.
* Write scripts in Visual Basic, R, Python or other software for statistical models using large datasets to extract patterns, relationships, and anticipatory behaviors that are repeatable, efficient, hypothesis testing, and knowledge capture.
* Use mathematical concepts and techniques to solve complex GEOINT analysis problem sets; understand concepts associated with structured data and relational databases.
* Use tools, such as Arc GIS, Excel, SPSS, SAS, Matlab, R, or other statistical packages, to analyze and visualize operational data; visualize data both temporally and spatially to assist in data integrity checks, prepare for follow-on analysis, ask the next question, and display analytical assessments.
* Maintain, move, and manipulate data between applications, using appropriate software; SQL databases, ArcServer, table data, relational/NoSQL DBMS, Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheets, ACCESS database management system, Tableau, Insights, ORACLE, and analyst provided data for ingest and cleaning.
* Develop tradecraft techniques, training solutions for discovery, preparation, manipulation and normalization of big data so that methods are repeatable and can be explained to users. Vendor shall create and publish advanced techniques and methods for dissemination through NGA Tradecraft HUB.
Requirements * Bachelor's Degree or higher in math or a science related field or possess at least 7 years of relevant experience in lieu of a Bachelor's Degree.
* Experience applying multidisciplinary mathematical and statistical models via programming language to large datasets to extract patterns, relationships and anticipatory behavioral likelihoods that may not be apparent using traditional single discipline means.
* Experience in developing tradecraft techniques and training solutions for discovery, preparation, manipulation, and normalization of big data.
* Experience using mathematical concepts and techniques to solve complex GEOINT analysis problem sets; understand concepts associated with structured data and relational databases.
* Experience understanding and explaining the relationship between the data collected for a real world problem and the required structure of a relational database to help solve that problem.
* Experience conceptualizing the relationship between a database structure and the requirements for analyzing and visualizing those data both temporally and spatially
* Experience writing scripts in Visual Basic, R, Python, Java, Javascript, C or other software for modeling processes, with a focus on repeatability, efficiency, knowledge capture, and hypothesis testing.
* Experience using tools, such as ArcGIS, Excel, Python, SPSS, R, or other statistical packages, to analyze and visualize data; visualize data both temporally and spatially to assist in data integrity checks, ask the next question, and display analytical assessments.
* Experience maintaining, moving, and manipulating data between applications, using appropriate software and/or Extract-Transform-Load (ELT) procedures: Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheets, ACCESS database management system and/or ORACLE, Postgresql, or SQL Server and importing and cleaning analyst-provided datasets (Excel, geospatial data, etc.)
* Experience using statistical software (SPSS, SAS, Matlab etc.), desktop software (MS Office and Access), and the Windows operating environment. Of importance is software packages used for advanced statistical analysis of operational data
* Experience using GOTS data and analytics capabilities (MIST, INTELBOOK, LINX and WATCHBOX)
* Knowledge of intelligence operations and GEOINT phenomenology. * Data Visualization Experience which may include Matrix Analytics, Network Analytics, Graphing Data.
* Knowledge and experience using: * ABI tools and tradecraft to include MIST, * SOM tools and to include SOM-C, GOWK, CEDALLION, and ATLAS
* 3) OBP tools
Physical Requirements and Work Environment * Normal Office environment Travel * N/A
Company Description Obsidian Solutions Group LLC (OSG) is a fast-growing professional services firm based in Fredericksburg, VA. We create value for our customers by delivering technology-enabled & mission-oriented technical solutions that solve complex problems, protecting people, information, and assets. Our core capabilities are in providing Enterprise IT, Intelligence Analysis, Production & Development and Knowledge-Based Professional Services Solutions that enable the customer's mission. Obsidian Solutions Group LLC is a veteran-owned small business. A career at Obsidian Solutions Group means you are able to put your expertise, credentials, and talents to great use working with customers in the DOD and Intelligence Community, while enjoying the excitement of working in a fast-growing organization committed to making a difference for our customers and in our community. Contribute independently and collaboratively alongside our amazing team of doers and thinkers. Obsidian Solutions Group is small enough to offer a family atmosphere yet large enough to deliver a highly competitive compensation package. We hire and retain the best in the industry, offering exceptional benefits that protect the well-being of our employees, their spouses and domestic partners, and their families. Our corporate philosophy is centered on hiring and retaining employees with the requisite skills, professional experience, personal commitment, and ethical standards necessary to foster a culture of operational excellence necessary to surpass our customer's expectations. Disclaimer The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Obsidian Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, protected veteran status, and any other non-merit factor, or any other characteristic protected by law.