data scientist.

job summary:
Randstad Federal is seeking a Data Scientist in support of a federal program within the IC

 
location: HERNDON, Virginia
job type: Permanent
salary: $175,000 - 210,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:
Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Client's technical lead 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 Client's Amazon Web Services environment utilizing Client approved AWS services.
  
  
• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
  
  
• Maintain all source code in Client'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.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with Python.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing 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.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience using GitHub.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience deploying AWS applications with AWS's Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying containerized applications.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS's OpenSearch.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO-SQL databases.
  
  
• Demonstrated experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.
  
  
• Certification(s) o AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

 
qualifications:

• Experience level: Manager
• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

 
skills:

Data Warehouse

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.