Data Scientist Job Listing at SAIC in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2511200)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Data Scientist to develop Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources that requires skills spanning many compute, storage, and networking services

This position is located in Chantilly, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain multiple, fast-turnaround capabilities used to perform various highly-visible and high-priority collection efforts. 

• Strategically apply AI/ML to extract, format, and expose in indexed search tools relevant content such as raw text, multimedia (audio, image, video, document), tabular (CSV, Parquet, Avro) or nested (JSON, JSONL, XML), and other structured /unstructured data types. Data is expected to be of varying formats, schemas, and structures. 

• Provide Data Engineering support to include cleaning, modeling, and formatting data of unknown formats. 

• Move data between different cloud storage environments for critical requests. 

• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure capabilities and deliverables meet defined requirements and tradecraft needs. 

• Create and maintain collection capabilities and deliverables within the Customer's Amazon Web Services environment utilizing Customer approved AWS services. 

• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements. 

• Maintain all source code in Customer's GitHub repository. 

• Document all source code, including how to execute the code. 

• Perform operations and maintenance on the collection capabilities and deliverables to adapt to changes in collection target, technologies, data formats, and naming conventions.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelors and 9 years or more experience; Masters 7 years or more experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Python.
• Experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.

• Ability to create and manage AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and deploying 

  Lambda functions, creating and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with IAM policies.

   

• Experience using GitHub.

Desired Skills: 

• Experience deploying AWS applications with AWS's Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS's OpenSearch.
• Ability to maintain SQL and NO-SQL databases.
• Experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.
• AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator certifications.