Mid-Level Data Scientist

ECS is seeking a Mid-Level Data Scientist for a position in our Arnold, MO office.

** Requires a Letter of Intent

*** Requires final acceptance by the government customer. 

**** Validation of required clearances upon acceptance and approval from a cognizant government contracting officer. After customer indoctrination, the candidate will be submitted for a Counterintelligence Polygraph.

The position requires intimate knowledge and experience in the enrichment and data management activities supporting GEOINT Exploitation Services, specialized GEOINT production efforts, and the delivery of GEOINT Production Services. The position will also require providing advanced visualization and GEOINT design storytelling activities that enable GEOINT enhancement services. Required to provide solutions and sustained support that promotes mission excellence through applied modernized analytic techniques, data sciences, modeling, and automation that optimize service performance and innovation in support of traditional and innovative intelligence products, analytic processes, and capabilities in support of the development and execution of US foreign policy, including military, political, diplomatic, and humanitarian issues. Expertise is required in collection and analysis of traditional and non-traditional sources which utilizes both classified and unclassified functions. 

The candidate must provide technical capabilities necessary to execute solutions which will include the following:  

• Optimizing existing databases to speed up the query, input, export, and visualization of data.
• Ability to work with cross functionally aligned teams within the Department of Defense and Intelligence communities to develop strategies for exposing new datasets and create migration plans for legacy datasets.
• Innovative approaches and the ability to custom-build solutions (tools, processes, etc.) to automate or assist analytic endeavors across multidisciplinary analytical units within the customer's analytical department, external Intelligence agency, and across the Department of Defense. 
• Extensive experience writing scripts in Visual Basic, R, Python or other software for statistical models using large datasets to extract patterns, relationships, and anticipatory behaviors that are repeatable, efficient, hypothesis testing, and knowledge capture.
• Expertise employing mathematical concepts and techniques to solve complex GEOINT analysis problem sets; understand concepts associated with structured data and relational databases.
• Experience using various Geospatial tools such as Arc GIS, Excel, SPSS, SAS, MatLab, R, or other statistical packages, to analyze and visualize operational data; visualize data both temporally and spatially to assist in data integrity checks, prepare analysis, develop next level queries, prepare presentations materials, and display analytical assessments for senior leadership.
• Maintaining, moving, and manipulating data between applications, using appropriate software; SQL databases, ArcServer, table data, relational/NoSQL DBMS, Microsoft EXCEL spreadsheets, ACCESS database management system, Tableau, Insights, ORACLE, and analyst provided data for ingest and cleaning.  
• Troubleshooting access and performance issues associated with all applications and database management systems.  
• Developing tradecraft techniques and training solutions for discovering, preparing, manipulating, and normalizing big data so that methods are repeatable and can be explained to users.
• Creating and publishing advanced techniques and methods for dissemination through NGA Tradecraft HUB.
• Other duties, as assigned.

• US Citizen.
• Minimum Clearance to interview is TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Counterintelligence Polygraph.
• Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years of on-the-job experience within GEOINT. (A combination of years of experience & professional certifications/trainings can be used in lieu of years of experience.)
• Mid-level proficiency in Python and other object-oriented programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience with relevant Python libraries including Pandas and Geopandas.
• Advanced experience using Python to automate complex workflows and integrate with cloud services.
• Proven experience with relational databases and web development tools, including API integration.
• Extensive experience in database administration and cloud-based data management. 
• Deep knowledge of GEOINT products, data formats, and satellite imagery systems.
• Extensive experience developing and implementing process improvements.
• Experience using AI/ML for feature extraction, data enrichment, and predictive analytics.
• Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).
• Experience maintaining, moving and manipulating data between applications, using appropriate software and/or Extract-Transform-Load (ELT) procedures: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets, Access database management system and/or Oracle, Postgresql, or SQL Server to import and clean analyst-provided datasets.
• Experience maintaining relational database performance, integrity and security through data normalization, indexing, role-based access control, and other best practices.
• Demonstrated experience of advanced programming techniques, using one or more of the following: HTML 5/Javascript, ArcObjects, Python, Model Builder, Oracle, SQL, GIScience, GeospatiavAnalysis, Statistics, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, Arc SDE, ArcIMS.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.