Data Scientist - Expert

Grvty; Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

GRVTY is seeking a motivated Data Scientist to support data architecture across program data, emphasizing databases, cloud architectures, and governance. The role focuses on backend workflows powering data operations across security domains and IC systems.

You will build and maintain infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and geospatial data pipelines for IC consumption, while ensuring data quality and governance to meet customer requirements and security regulations.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain a CI/Poly
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures
• Experience leveraging APIs to query systems and migrate data between platforms
• Experience with programming languages including Python and Java
• Experience developing, sustaining, and monitoring operational data pipelines across multiple data formats and interfaces
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex concepts

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain infrastructure to store and process data related to emergent capabilities (databases, schemas, health alerts)
• Develop workflows for API-based movement of emergent sensor data between platforms
• Ensure data adherence to customer schemas, formats, and governance requirements
• Build, test, and maintain databases and large-scale data processing systems
• Clean, prepare, and transform data for geospatial pipelines for IC consumption
• Support data analytics, data cleansing, and ETL transformations
• Ensure data activities conform to governance policies including data lifecycle and access controls
• Manage data population into databases ensuring compliance with security regulations and customer requirements
• QC and monitor data against standards and requirement specifications
• Maintain metadata standards and monitor data/standards changes

Skills

SQL/NoSQL databases

Cloud architectures

APIs for data movement

Python

Java

Data governance

Data pipelines

Job description

GRVTY is seeking a motivated and experienced Data Scientist to support the maintenance and implementation of data architecture across all program data. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in databases, cloud architectures, and data governance, with a passion for building and sustaining the backend workflows that power data operations across security domains and systems. This is a mission-driven opportunity to deliver world-class data infrastructure in direct support of the DoW and Intelligence Community.

What You'll be Owning

• Create and maintain the infrastructure necessary to store and process data related to emergent capabilities, including:
  • Database tables and schemas
  • Data health alerts and monitorin
  • ETL pipelines supporting all emergent capabilities data
• Develop workflows to enable API-based movement of emergent sensor data between platforms
• Ensure all emergent sensor data adheres to customer-directed:
  • Data schemas and formats
  • Governance requirements
• Develop, construct, test, and maintain databases and large-scale complex data processing systems
• Clean, prepare, and transform data to support the building of geospatial data pipelines that create a curated view of content for IC consumption
• Apply scripting tools, programming languages, standards, and software packages to build data pipelines enabling consumption of data
• Support data analytics, data cleansing, analyst workflow efficiencies, and ETL transformation capabilities
• Ensure all data activities conform to data governance policies, including:
  • Data lifecycle management
  • Data structure and schema definitions
  • Data formas (JSON, Parquet, XML, CSV, etc.)
  • Access controls
• Manage the generation, approval, and population of data into databases, ensuring:
  • Compliance with security regulations
  • Satisfaction of customer requirements
• Conduct regular Quality Control (QC) and monitor content to ensure alignment with existing data standards and requirement specifications
• Assess and report the current state of data holdings compliance in both written and oral forms
• Populate, manage, and maintain metadata standards for datasets
• Monitor data and standards changes and adjust data architecture to remain in compliance
• Support the use and development of cloud computing systems and perform automated analytics

What You Must Have

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain a CI/Poly
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures
• Experience leveraging APIs to:
  • Query systems
  • Migrate data between platforms
• Experience with programming languages including:
• Python
• Java
• Experience developing, sustaining, and monitoring operational data pipelines supporting:
  • Multiple data formas and system interfaces
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences

What Would be Nice to Have

• Experience working with NGA IT enterprise solutions (e.g., NGA CORE, NGA MLOps), Government Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and Government Non-Person Entity (NPE) certificates
• Experience implementing processes, standards, and tools within an organization based on the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise (SAFe)
• Experience developing dynamic visualizations to monitor availability, currency, and volumetrics of operational data pipelines

Pay Range:At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

• The pay range for this position is: $180,000 - $210,000