Data Scientist (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information)

Company Description

At RED GATE we do everything possible to satisfy our clients.
Utilizing the appropriate technical abilities, unique methodologies, best practices, and advanced technology, we aid clients in implementing audacious solutions. Fresh approaches to newly emerging and developing threats. Unconventional methods to overcome deep-rooted obstacles. Gain through opportunity. If you are grappling with a serious challenge or issue, we can help you resolve it.  The following job description provides information on how this role will be beneficial to our clients.

Job Description

The Red Gate Group is seeking a Data Scientist to aid The Future Experience (TEF) office within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Springfield, VA. In this position you will perform the following tasks:

• Use extensive knowledge to integrate, create, and maintain analytical models, visual aids, and tools to assess, study, and communicate internal/external user behavior and overarching enterprise or portfolio performance.

• Offer statistical and mathematical assistance in aiding the analysis and interpretation of a diverse range of data to understand and enhance the customer's experience.

• Exploit a variety of data sources (e.g., Web traffic, customer requests for information, survey responses, production databases, etc.) to understand what fuels a positive customer experience.

• Provide insights that will be leveraged to shape decisions and agency operational strategies, in collaboration with teams exploring website design, customer interactions, highlighted content, and future products and services.

• Apply business analytics and customer segmentation methodologies in any corporate function, e.g. marketing analytics, consumer analytics, operations analysis, human capital analytics, or other relevant fields.

• Maintain, shift, and manipulate data between applications, using suitable software/code: Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, R, Python, Kibana, and others as technology progresses.

• Develop an agile analytics process that delivers better insights into ongoing analytic/data visualization activities.

• Manage a catalogue of deployed dashboards, other analytical products, and current product backlog for implementation.

Qualifications

Required

• Active TS/SCI
• Evident experience in developing data analytics models and visual aids using proven industry standards in statistic/data science principles, practices, and techniques in business data analysis.
• Proven experience in creating dashboards to effectively convey site metrics to non-technical audiences, to include but not limited to: conveying warnings and restrictions of both coding methods and statistical analyses depicting the current state and providing insight into improvement plan implementation strategies and milestone accomplishment.
• Clear experience working with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) statistical software or tools for data visualization (i.e., SPSS, SAS, MatLab, Tableau, etc.).
• Confirmed experience in data mining, including the development, manipulation, or maintenance of databases.
• Proven experience using computer programs, software, or a range of coding languages (i.e., Python, MySQL, D3, SPSS, SAS, Visual Basic, R, etc.) to summarize statistical data and create documents, reports, and presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify methods and techniques to expand and improve the analytic capacity and ability of an existing portfolio.

Desired

• Manifest experience in effectively interacting with various partners, stakeholders, or customers on the value of statistical and data science methods including the strength of models/formulas, their limitations, warnings, and weaknesses in different applications.
• Shown experience in adopting and participating in a knowledge-sharing culture to broaden the understanding of: advanced methods or niche statistical methods, and data science analytical methods and coding techniques including the basic understanding of model/formula strength, limitations, warnings and weaknesses when applied to various concepts.

Additional Information

The Red Gate Group, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The Red Gate Group, Ltd. considers applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law.