Role overview
Noblis-ESI is seeking a Data Scientist to provide analytic, technical, and advisory support our client in Chantilly VA. The selected candidate will help advance mission-critical initiatives by applying data science, modeling, and analytic tradecraft to enhance enterprise capabilities, inform senior decision-making, and drive innovation across the Directorate community.
Responsibilities
- Develop, refine, and operationalize statistical, machine learning, and predictive models to support enterprise Directorate decisions.
- Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, and data quality assessments across diverse mission datasets.
- Build reproducible analytic workflows and pipelines to support enterprise-level assessments and long-term analytic baselines.
- Provide analytic insights to customer leadership on system performance, collection strategies, and future architecture planning.
- Evaluate system- and enterprise-level tradeoffs using quantitative methods, simulation outputs, and mission modeling tools.
- Support enterprise integration activities by translating complex analytic findings into actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Work with structured and unstructured data from multiple NRO and IC sources, ensuring proper handling, transformation, and integration.
- Develop dashboards, visualizations, and analytic products that clearly communicate trends, uncertainties, and mission impacts.
- Implement best practices for data governance, metadata tagging, and analytic reproducibility.
- Partner with government leads, system engineers, modelers, and mission analysts across the organization.
- Present analytic results to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior government officials.
- Contribute to working groups, tiger teams, and enterprise-level studies supporting customer priorities.
Basic qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or related field. Alternatively, demonstrate an additional 4 years of related experience per level if no bachelor's degree is held.
- Demonstrated experience applying statistical analysis, machine learning, or quantitative modeling to complex datasets.
- Proficiency with Python, R, or similar analytic languages.
- Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Plotly, matplotlib).
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Bachelor’s degree
- 0 - 5 years’ experience
- $82,500 - $188,725
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5 - 10 years’ experience
- $120,700 - $228,400
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10+ years’ experience
- $146,200 - $228,400
- Master’s degree in a quantitative or technical field.
- Experience supporting NRO, NGA, or other IC mission partners.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, C2S, GovCloud) and distributed computing.
- Knowledge of mission modeling tools, simulation frameworks, or GEOINT performance metrics.
- Background in operations research, optimization, or decision science.
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