Data Scientist

Altamira Technologies Corporation; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Altamira Technologies Corporation is seeking a Data Scientist at Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado Springs, CO). You will design and maintain data pipelines, interpret complex datasets, and manage ML projects on cloud-native platforms.

Proficiency in Python/R, SQL, and distributed processing is essential for building scalable models. The role requires strong programming, statistics, and domain knowledge, with TS/SCI clearance noted as part of the experience expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field required; Master’s preferred in OR/IE/Math/CS.
• 3–5 years of data science experience with programming in Python or R.
• Proficient in distributed data querying and cloud-based ML platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines and ML solutions.
• Analyze large structured and unstructured datasets to extract insights.
• Build predictive and prescriptive models and present results clearly.
• Collaborate with data engineers to enable scalable data environments.
• Communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

R

SQL / Distributed SQL

Mathematical modeling

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Hadoop

Tableau

Job description

Description

Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies.

Position

Data Scientist

Position Location

Peterson Air Force Base (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

Position Description

A data scientist will have skills sets of both data analysts and data engineers. Data scientists are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a data pipeline. In addition, data scientists shall interpret and analyze complex sets of data, as well as plan, execute, and manage ML projects with cloud-native platforms and advanced ML solutions. They understand some of the most challenging processes, technologies, and can leverage a vast array of methodologies in the field, such as data mining, natural language programming, and machine learning. Data scientists must have a combination of skills that include programming, mathematical modeling, statistics, and domain knowledge. They must combine an advanced math and statistics background with programming, domain knowledge, and communication skills to analyze data, create applied mathematical models, and present results in a form useful to the organization. They must also be able to understand and manipulate structured and unstructured large data sets, which requires proficiency in distributed SQL programming, relational and non‑relational data queries, general programming languages (such as Python and R,) and machine learning techniques.

Experience

• Interpret and analyze data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method.
• Coordinate research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data
• Experiment against data points, provide information based on experiment results and provide previously undiscovered solutions to command data challenges.
• Coordinate with Data Engineers to build Data environments providing data identified by other data professionals
• Apply and develop scientific methodology, statistics, and algorithms to discover and frame relevant problems, hypotheses, and opportunities.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive modeling, natural language processing (NLP), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), text mining and processing, clustering, forecasting methods, and other advanced statistical techniques.
• Design and automate processes to facilitate the manipulation and analysis of data. Manage and integrate data across dissimilar data sets. Analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data.
• Use frameworks such as Spark and Hadoop to conduct large-scale data processing. Perform statistical modeling and create data visualizations using products like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and R Shiny.
• Research, design, and implement algorithms to solve complex problems. Program using R, Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas) or similar analytical languages.
• Perform data engineering, data processing and modeling techniques using cloud-based data management, data science, and ML platforms such as Databricks, IBM Cloud Pak, Cloudera, and Snowflake.
• Communicate complex concepts and hypothesis to a non-technical audience through digital storytelling.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field is required. Master’s degree is preferred in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 3-5 years data science experience required
• Proficient with one or more programming languages (Java, C++, Python, R, etc.).
• Proficient in Agile Development and Git Operations.
• Demonstrated experience applying data science methods to real-world data problems.
• TS/SCI clearance required

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security!