Data Scientist, Aviation Analytics & Dashboards

Peraton; Bowie (MD); On-site; USD 66,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team supporting the BNATCS CTO Advanced Analytics and Digital Command Center. You will transform complex data into trusted metrics, insights, and decision-support products, collaborating with CTO leadership and mission stakeholders to support FAA modernization initiatives.

The role emphasizes analysis, modeling, visualization, data validation, and dashboard development across workstreams, requiring strong data acumen and clear communication for

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with a BS/BA, 0+ years with a MS/MA in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related technical discipline
• Experience analyzing complex structured, semi-structured, operational, program, or business datasets to support decision-making
• Proficiency with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytical tools, with the ability to develop notebooks, scripts, queries, and reusable analysis artifacts
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, statistical analysis, trend analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, clustering, or predictive modeling
• Experience defining or supporting metrics, KPIs, dashboards, reports, or decision-support products
• Ability to assess data quality, completeness, consistency, and analytical usefulness
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational and stakeholder questions into structured analyses and measurable outputs
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain an FAA Public Trust clearance

Responsibilities

• Analyze workstream, requirements, IMS, schedule, risk, operational, and program data to identify trends, dependencies, gaps, anomalies, and decision-relevant insights
• Define operational metrics, KPIs, analytical logic, thresholds, and decision-support views for Digital Command Center dashboards and advanced analytics products
• Assess the quality, completeness, consistency, and usability of data made available through enterprise data repositories
• Partner with data architects and data engineers to identify data gaps, transformation needs, metadata requirements, and analytics-readiness issues
• Support ai-enabled analytics workflows by helping define trusted data inputs, context, validation criteria, and human-in-the-loop review considerations
• Develop notebooks, scripts, SQL queries, statistical analyses, models, and reusable analytical artifacts to support data exploration and decision-making
• Translate ambiguous operational questions into structured analysis, measurable metrics, and clear recommendations
• Communicate assumptions, limitations, findings, and implications to technical teams, program leadership, and mission stakeholders

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Data analysis

Education

BS/BA in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Information Systems

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Grafana

Plotly

Dash

Streamlit

Superset

Qlik

AWS

Glue

Athena

Redshift

SageMaker

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team supporting the BNATCS CTO Advanced Analytics and Digital Command Center. You will transform complex data into trusted metrics, insights, and decision-support products, collaborating with CTO leadership and mission stakeholders to support FAA modernization initiatives.

The role emphasizes analysis, modeling, visualization, data validation, and dashboard development across workstreams, requiring strong data acumen and clear communication for