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In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.
Description of Task to be Performed: AnaVation is looking for a talented Data Scientist/Data Engineer who is passionate about supporting National Security missions. The ideal candidate appreciates partnering with our customer and a group of intelligence and cybersecurity experts to analyze and integrate data sources and produce custom analytics.
This position is full time on-site in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
Position Responsibilities: Engages and collaborates with mission partners to determine new ways to improve data discoverability, search quality, and analytic capabilities and visualization. Mines complex datasets, evaluates its utility for mission requirements, resolves data sharing issues, and enables system/data collaboration. Interprets data studies and product reviews concerning new and existing data sources. Identifies data conversion options, data formats, data types and data extensions compatible with specific structured/unstructured data analytics. Develops data triage tradecraft to include optimizing data tagging, data parsing, and data interconnection across domains. Develops prototypes, proof of concepts, algorithms, predictive models and custom analytics focused on mission requirements. Recommends appropriate resources and processes to address data requirements, data standards, and implementation of data centric systems and modeling/algorithm use and creation.
Required Qualifications:
- Clearance: U.S. Citizen, SCI cleared within last 2 years.
- Location: Full time on-site in Annapolis Junction, Maryland.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field
- Experience and knowledge:
- Three or more years of experience in a Data Science, Data Engineering, or Data Analysis role
- Experience with program languages such as Python (preferred) or R.
- Experience with exploratory data analysis and data cleaning.
- Experience analyzing and automating data formats, data pipelines, extract-transform-load (ETL), and data warehouses/data lakes.
- Experience with cloud-based data analysis tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Clearance: Polygraph within last 5 years
- Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science or a related field.
- Certification: CySA+ or equivalent; AWS certification
- Five or more years of experience in a Data Science, Data Engineering, or Data Analysis role.
- Familiarity with data pipelining and streaming technologies (ex. Apache Kafka, Apache Nifi, etc.)
- Experience generating synthetic test/training data.
- Experience communicating research results in written, visual, and spoken forms to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience producing visualization of large-scale analysis and presentation of data
Benefits
· Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
· 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
· 100% company paid long-term and short term disability insurance
· 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
· 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
· Competitive Pay
· Generous paid leave and holiday package
· Tuition and training reimbursement
· Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
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AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems.
AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies.
AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities.
We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
