Overview

DATA SCIENTIST (ARDAP):

Bowhead is seeking a Data Scientist for the upcoming Army Data and Analytics Platform (ARDAP) effort located at Fort Belvoir, VA. This is a fast-paced job managing subject matter experts and IT professionals advising executive level personnel on financial, technical, and other high-level policy areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of analytics solutions to solve business problems and optimize mission execution.
• Define and develop techniques to integrate, consolidate, and structure data for analytical use.
• Research, analyze, and document technical approaches for desired outcomes.
• Provide guidance in applying appropriate algorithms, solutions, and data science techniques.
• Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform massive-scale data into actionable and meaningful information.
• Lead development, testing, and demonstration of analytics products.
• Design scalable algorithms utilizing large amounts of data and apply data mining, cluster analysis, statistical models, visualization, and machine learning to power data-driven products and tools and provide useful insights.
• Enable automation of queries and build tools. Design and develop piping and processing of massive data streams to facilitate analysis.
• Develop graphical analysis to analyze and interpret data, update existing programs to reflect new business rules or policy changes, and develop customizable reports.
• Write scripts to integrate data, conduct exploratory data analysis to discover patterns, and apply machine learning to train predictive models.
• Have experience formulating recommendations and briefings and easily communicate complex ideas to high-level commanders/executives.
• Have experience serving as a data scientist on complex technology implementations, and experience in large data environments with an understanding of scaling algorithms between differing environments.

Qualifications

• MA/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline or Equivalent
• Ten (10+) years of experience with programming languages such as Python and R; and querying languages such as SQL required
• Intermediate to advanced level skills in Microsoft Office software suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and outside contacts
• Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment with the ability to work alone or as part of a team

Physical Demands

• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

Security Clearance Requirements

Must currently hold a security clearance at the Secret level. US Citizenship is a requirement for Secret clearance at this location.