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Position Objective: Seeking an experienced hands-on Senior Data Scientist to join our team within a dynamic setting located in the Bethesda, Maryland area. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a critical role in shaping our client's enterprise architecture and driving cloud and data-related initiatives across the client’s organization. Your responsibilities will span multiple areas, including strategic planning, cross-domain services, data security, data compliance, data integrity, AI, and cloud platforms, to enhance our customer’s cloud and data ecosystem.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture: Contribute to the design and evolution of our client’s enterprise cloud and data architecture, ensuring interoperability, security, and alignment with business goals.

• Strategic Thinking: Develop data and cloud strategies that consider long-term implications, anticipating future needs and trends.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with teams across different domains (e.g., CIO, CDO, Security) to drive data integration initiatives and foster a data-driven culture.

• Data Security and Compliance: Analyze current and recommend data security practices, including data transiting between differing security level enclaves, to ensure compliance with relevant regulations.

• Data Integrity: Analyze current and recommend data structure, tagging, and quality standards, and means to discover and address anomalies in data/data patterns.

• Multi-Cloud Environment: Recommend solutions to analyze data across multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for optimizing storage, compute, and analytics.

• AI Integration: Recommend ways to leverage AI and machine learning techniques to extract insights, automate processes, and enhance decision-making.

• New Data Sources from AI: Explore data generated by AI models and recommend ways to manage and integrate them into our client’s data ecosystem.

• Data Tagging and Taxonomy: Analyze current and recommend data tagging standards, enabling efficient data discovery and governance.

• Data Mesh: Champion the data mesh paradigm, promoting decentralized data ownership and self-serve analytics.

• API Brokers: Collaborate with the client’s service providers for identity, credentialing, and access management to establish/enhance and manage data access permissions.

• Compute and Storage Optimization: Analyze and recommend ways to optimize compute resources and storage solutions for efficient data processing.

• Qualitative Computing: Recommend methods to integrate qualitative insights by understanding the context and nuances of the data.

  Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience to operate within the scope contemplated by the level; additional years of experience can be considered in lieu of BS degree. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.

• Proven experience as a Data Scientist, with a focus on complex data environments

• Experience with data visualization tools/software (e.g., Tableau, MS PowerBI) to develop and deliver data analysis solutions and visualizations in support of client’s needs and reporting requirements.

• Strong proficiency in data manipulation and analysis.

• TS/SCI with CI Poly

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and big data technologies

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science)

• Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC)

• Experience producing executive-level products

• Knowledge of and experience working with IC policies, directives, and standards

• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with non-technical and technical staff

• Detail-oriented and possess strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects

• Communication skills for technical writing and oral briefings

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical insights into actionable recommendations

• Passion for staying up to date with industry trends and advancements

  *This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  GAP Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job, email us at recruiting@gapsi.com . You will need to reference the requisition number of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a requisition number will not be returned.

  GAP Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status, political affiliation, genetic information, or any other legally protected status or characteristics.

Requisition ID: 6932