Data Scientist - Senior

Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World

Amentum is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support our client at Peterson AFB in Colorado. The Senior Data Scientist will proactively retrieve both structured and unstructured data from various sources, analyze it for context and understanding, and develop automation tools that support the client with information query, visualization, and prioritization requirements. The selected candidate is expected to offer a combination of proven experience and expertise to independently support a customer with a broad range of intelligence and operational needs. He/she will independently accomplish demanding and challenging tasks that are routine and involve high levels of complexity. He/she is expected to independently handle multiple tasks with competing priorities. The duties and responsibilities listed below are not mutually exclusive.

• Conducts 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.

• Proactively retrieves information from various sources, analyzes it for better understanding about the data set, and builds Al tools that automate certain processes. Duties typically include : creating various ML-based tools or processes, such as recommendation engines or automated lead scoring systems.

• Performs statistical analysis, applies data mining techniques, and builds high quality prediction systems. Should be skilled in data visualization and use of graphical applications, including Microsoft Office (Power Bl) and Tableau; major data science languages, such as R and Python; managing and merging of disparate data sources, preferably through R, Python, or SQL; statistical analysis; and data mining algorithms.

• Should have prior experience with large data Multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predictive analytics.

Required Preferred Qualifications:

• ACTIVE TS/SCI clearance is required with CI Poly

• Education: Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. OR Bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master's degree.

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Senior-level Contractor personnel work independently with minimal Government oversight, provide comprehensive and completed products that may require multiple Senior Intelligence Analyst/Officer (SIA/SIO) minor revisions and/or editing, and develop and manage plan of actions and milestones. Additional duties as directed.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.

• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.

• Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.

• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.

• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

• Demonstrates ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

​Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with DCSA missions, FEMA and predictive analysis

• Experience with, or training on ODNI Analytic Standards and related ODNI Analytic Tradecraft Standards

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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