• Data Scientist

    SAIC (Chantilly, VA)


    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.

    REQNUMBER: 2511200

    SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability