What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Associate Data Scientist position at VT Group (VTG)?
Overview
VTG is seeking a Senior Associate Data Scientist to support our Team in Manassas, VA. The Data Scientist will design, prototype, and implement a data management and application development pipeline in support of national defense data science and data architecture prototyping tasks. This role will also include gathering and organizing data, conducting data analytics, and developing data analytic and AI/ML based applications. This is a hybrid role.
What will you do?
The Data Scientist will work with a team of DevOps engineers, software developers, data engineers, and system operators to identify data needs and prototype a range of novel solutions. This data scientist would be involved at all levels of the data life cycle from onboard management of data to its use in application development and back to application integration and gathering test data.
Minimal travel, mostly in the Manassas area
VTG is seeking a Senior Associate Data Scientist to support our Team in Manassas, VA. The Data Scientist will design, prototype, and implement a data management and application development pipeline in support of national defense data science and data architecture prototyping tasks. This role will also include gathering and organizing data, conducting data analytics, and developing data analytic and AI/ML based applications. This is a hybrid role.
What will you do?
The Data Scientist will work with a team of DevOps engineers, software developers, data engineers, and system operators to identify data needs and prototype a range of novel solutions. This data scientist would be involved at all levels of the data life cycle from onboard management of data to its use in application development and back to application integration and gathering test data.
- Leverage third-party tools to architect and prototype a modern data management and application development pipeline in a local and/or a cloud environment
- Perform data analytics of simulated and real-world data
- Integrate structured and unstructured data from disparate data sources
- Develop applications and models supporting various users
- Provide technical input to program managers and government representatives
- Bachelor’s Degree, majoring in majoring in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 2 Experience as a Data Scientist including experience in statistical modeling and machine learning based on the analysis of large sets of data
- Experience with third party data management tools (S3, Apache Atlas, Kafka, Kubeflow, etc.)
- Programming experience in Python, R, or similar data manipulation languages
- Knowledge of data modeling principles
- Experience in knowledge extraction and insights from data in various forms, both structured and unstructured
- Cloud development experience, preferably in AWS
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- US Citizen with current SECRET Clearance or ability to obtain a SECRET clearance
- Successful completion of background check
- Master’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Systems
- Experience establishing data pipelines in cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Data visualization experience
- Experience using Git for version control
- Experience leading teams and projects
- Programming experience in C and Java
- Experience with Linux systems.
Minimal travel, mostly in the Manassas area