Data Scientist

Leidos LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Springfield, VA is seeking a Senior Exploitation Specialist/Data Scientist to drive data-driven decisions for mission teams. You will collect and process data, develop cloud-enabled tools, and present results with compelling visuals. Expect advanced analytics, modeling, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualified candidates typically hold a quantitative degree with 8+ years of experience; PhD preferred. A TS/SCI with poly is desired for this role at Leidos.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher with substantial relevant experience in data science and analytics.
• Strong programming, data mining, visualization and modeling skills.
• Experience managing data science projects and big data processing.

Responsibilities

• Collect, process and analyze data; build data pipelines and tools.
• Integrate data in DBMS and deploy cloud applications for data migration.
• Create features and metadata extraction across diverse sources.
• Write Python scripts in ArcGIS to improve workflow efficiency.
• Communicate complex analysis clearly with storytelling and visuals.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

Data visualization

Databricks

Apache Spark

Docker

Jupyter Hub

ML & statistics

Cloud technologies

Storytelling

2+ programming languages

2+ data visualization tools

2+ cloud technologies

Windows/Linux CLI

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8–12 years

Master’s degree + 6–10 years

Quantitative BS + 10 yrs

Quantitative MS + 7 yrs

Preferred Quantitative PhD

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Job description

Leidos has an opening for a Exploitation Specialist/Data Scientist- Senior supporting our customer in Springfield Virginia.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collect process data and perform data analysis.
• Integrate centralized protect and maintain data in DBMS.
• Clean, condition, and organize data.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and present results in a clear manner.
• Communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise and actionable manner using storytelling/visualization.
• Create/deploy/maintain cloud applications to support migration of data and production processes.
• Create/deploy/maintain tools to extract features data and metadata from a variety of sources, including raster to vector, vector to vector text, text to vector and text database.
• Write/maintain Python scripts in ArcGIS to improve efficiency of the production process.
• Support business processing re-engineering.
• Perform data conversion/migration.

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s degree with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Quantitative BS + 10 yrs or quantitative MS + 7 yrs.
• Programming (Python/Pig/Java/JS/SQL/R), spatial analysis, data mining, database structures, visualization.
• Statistical/mathematical modeling.
• Experience managing data science projects, data mining, spatio-temporal analysis.
• Docker/Jupyter Hub/GIT.
• Experience with “big data” processing and analytics (Databricks/Apache Spark or similar).
• Active TS/SCI with ability to be approved for a Poly.
• Preferred Quantitative PhD.
• Deep learning for data science.
• 2+ programming languages, 2+ data visualization tools, 2+ cloud technologies.
• Windows/Linux command line interface (CLI) experience.
• Demonstrated IC experience.

#GEOINTMISSION #NSBA

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range: Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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