Job Description

Zachary Piper Solutions is currently looking for a Jr Data Scientist to support work for NGA’s GEOINT program on-site in Springfield, VA. The Jr Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in advancing National Security by enhancing GEOINT data accessibility and delivery, while collaborating with top developers and leveraging AWS cloud solution.

This job opens for applications on 2/18/25. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

Responsibilities for the Jr Data Scientist include:

• As a Junior Data Scientist, you will work as part of team of data engineers, database developers and visualization specialists to analyze large sets of structured data, looking for anomalies and undiscovered correlations
• Perform deep dive analysis into data sets and reports to identify problems or suspected issues with data
• Able to develop & use exceptionally complex concepts & processes that span multiple organizations and disciplines
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase available data quality and speed of delivery
• Participate on an Agile development team, using Scrum techniques, as a contributing development team member
• Work with the software engineering team to deploy models that provide ongoing forecasts, optimizations, recommendations, and insights to support the Chief Data Office

Qualifications for the Mid Java Developer include:

•       Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years’ experience

•       Must have experience as a data scientist using imagery data

•       Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, JavaScript, C++ with documentation for reproducibility

•       Strong knowledge and experience of visual programming or object-oriented modeling workflows to automate data acquisition

• Ability to manipulate data from multiple structured and unstructured data sources
• Apply analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance
• Ability to conduct data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions
• Ability to identify and appropriately evaluate a wide range of existing methods, models and algorithms in familiar domains for a variety of mission driven problems while recognizing the capabilities and limitations of each method
• Ability to categorize the data and metadata to build the metadata application profile.
• Experience with Apache Hadoop, HUE, Hive, Pig, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Tableau

•       Must be eligible to work in the United States and obtain and maintain an Active U.S Government TS/SCI

Compensation for the Mid Java Developer include:

•       Salary Range: $85,000 - $95,000 *depending on experience*

•       Comprehensive Benefits: Cigna Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO, Sick Leave if required by law, and Holidays

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