Data Scientist

SAIC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team to provide support specializing in natural language processing and associated data preparation. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in Java and Python.

This position in McLean, VA requires a TS/SCI with polygraph. Key responsibilities include maintaining legacy Java applications, refactoring back end systems, writing scalable code and building REST APIs using Spring and related tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience, or Master’s with 7+ years, or PhD/JD with 4+ years.
• Strong Core Java skills including OOP, multithreading and JVM memory management.
• Experience with Spring and Spring Data JPA.
• Familiarity with Eclipse, Maven/Gradle, Git and Jenkins.
• Experience with Oracle, Apache Tomcat, AWS Cloud and Linux.
• TS/SCI with polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

• Assess, maintain and rewrite legacy Java applications.
• Refactor and extend back-end systems.
• Write clean, scalable, and efficient code for business applications.
• Leverage frameworks to build backend apps and REST APIs.
• Write and optimize queries across relational and non-relational databases.
• Use test libraries such as JUnit and Mockito to ensure stability.

Skills

Core Java

Spring

REST APIs

OOP / Multithreading

JVM Memory Mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD/JD

Tools

Eclipse

Maven

Gradle

Git

Jenkins

Tomcat

AWS

Linux

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team to provide support specializing in natural language(NLP) processing and associated data preparation. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in Java and Python.

This position in in Mclean, VA and requires a TS/SCI with polygraph.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess, maintain and rewrite legacy Java applications.
• Refactor and extend existing back end systems.
• Write clean, scalable and efficient code to support business applications.
• Leverage dominant frameworks to build backend applications and REST API's.
• Write and optimize queries across relational and non-relations databases.
• Utilize test libraries, such as JUnit and Mockito to ensure application stability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Core Java: Object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts, multithreading, and memory management (JVM).
• Demonstrated experience with Spring and Spring Data JPA.
• Demonstrated experience with tools and build systems such as: Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, Git, and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle, Apache Tomcat, AWS Cloud Framework and Linux.
• TS/SCI with polygraph.

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with Spring Boot and REST API Java implementations to support web applications.