Data Science Software Engineer

For the OPS Consulting team, ‘the power to help’ means helping our clients, helping serve the mission, helping our employees and their families, and helping the community. Headquartered in Hanover, MD. OPS Consulting has over two decades of experience specializing in the most mission-critical operations. We are thought leaders and innovators. The ingenuity of our developers, engineers, cyber experts, linguists, and analysts are dedicated to empowering our clients, fulfilling The Mission, and remaining trusted leaders and advisers in national security and technology solutions.

We are looking for a Data Science Software Engineer to join a growing team in Annapolis Junction, MD.

The Data Science Software Engineer will develop, enhance, and prototype compliance and business processing analytics and tools. Develop new methods for automating compliance functions and improve existing methods. Investigate, integrate, and test compliance modernization Machine Learning/AI algorithms and research proof-of-concepts in the RD environment. Develop models and implement appropriate metrics and monitoring of developed tools, functions, and data flows.

Required Skills

• Experience with Java, Scala, and Python
• Experience with Lucene, JEXL, SQL, JSON
• Random Forest and ability to do feature development for Random Forest
• Experience with Machine Learning Model building and monitoring
• Experience developing in a Linux operating environment
• Experience with Ghostmachine (Map/Reduce)
• Experience with GM Learn
• Experience with Jupyter Notebooks
• Experience with IntelliJ and/or Eclipse
• Experience with Git/Gitlab and/or Stash/Bitbucket
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with Confluence
• Experience with Scikit-learn
• Agency Compliance standards, policies, and authorities
• Experience with Agency corporate systems
• Experience with documentation and reviewing documentation
  
  

Desired Skills

• Data Science skills/background
• Experience with AWS
• Experience implementing ML systems
• Experience with Spark
• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
• Agentic AI
• Large Language Models (LLM)
• Machine Learning Feature Development
• Other Machine Learning models and techniques
  
  

Requirements

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• US citizenship and an active security clearance required
  
  

The Swift Group and Subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Pay Range: $49,996.80 - $290,004.00

Pay ranges are a general guideline and not intended as a guaranteed and/or implied final compensation or salary for this job opening. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several different factors including, but not limited to: level of position, complexity of job responsibilities, geographic location, work experience, education, certifications, Federal Government contract labor categories, and contract wage rates.

At The Swift Group and Subsidiaries, you will receive comprehensive benefits including but not limited to: healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time off benefits.