Role overview
MANTECH seeks a highly skilled and mission-focused Data Scientist to support mission-critical intelligence operations in Springfield, VA.
This role directly supports national security objectives by applying advanced data science, analytics, and geospatial expertise across GEOINT, multi-INT, and enterprise analytic environments. You will collaborate closely with mission partners to transform complex, high-volume data into actionable intelligence that drives operational and strategic decision-making. In this position, you will support the full data lifecycle from ingestion and integration through analysis, visualization, and dissemination while enabling secure, efficient, and scalable analytic operations.
What you'll work on
- Integrate, centralize, protect, and maintain data within database management systems while collecting, processing, cleaning, structuring, validating, and organizing large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.
- Perform ad-hoc, exploratory, and advanced data analyses to examine data from multiple perspectives, identify trends, risks, opportunities, and hidden value, and ensure data is accurate, usable, and mission-relevant.
- Conduct undirected research and translate open-ended mission and customer questions into actionable analytic solutions that support intelligence and operational decision-making.
- Communicate complex quantitative results clearly and effectively through written narratives, visualizations, dashboards, and web-based analytic products tailored to diverse audiences.
- Build, deploy, and maintain dashboards, web-based products, and automated analytics solutions that portray data insights and support ongoing business and mission analytics.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-based applications and tools to support data migration, production workflows, feature extraction, and metadata generation across raster, vector, text, and database sources.
- Write and maintain Python scripts in ArcGIS and ArcPro, perform data conversion and migration, support Business Process Re-Engineering initiatives, and work with geospatial data in multi-user enterprise environments, including versioned datasets.
What we're looking for
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods while working at a computer.
- Must be able to occasionally move about the office or operational environment to access equipment or collaborate with team members.
- Must be able to frequently communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, including exchanging accurate information and presenting analytic results.