Data Scientist & Foundry Data Integration Engineer (Remote)

Management Science & Innovation; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Life insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Management Science and Innovation (MSI) Consulting, LLC seeks a seasoned Data Scientist / Data Integration Engineer to advance our Foundry-based data solutions for federal and civilian clients. You will integrate diverse sources, build pipelines, and deliver dashboards that illuminate mission-critical insights.

The role emphasizes governance, data modeling, and stakeholder collaboration to translate complex questions into actionable data products, with hybrid work in the DC area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Data Science, Information Technology, or related field; experience may substitute for degree.
• Foundry Certification - Data Engineer preferred; 3+ years Hands-on Foundry experience acceptable in lieu of certification.
• Languages: SQL, Python (PySpark).
• Data modeling and architecture (canonical, normalization, star schema).
• API data contracts and schemas (JSON Schema).

Responsibilities

• Work primarily within a Palantir Foundry-based platform to rapidly integrate disparate sources, produce visualizations, and illuminate insights informing critical mission decisions.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and transformations using Foundry's low-code tooling (Pipeline Builder, Contour); profile, cleanse, join, and validate data quickly.
• Leverage and extend the Ontology to model complex mission data, ensuring reusability, scalability, and intuitive downstream use.
• Develop and iterate analyst- and leadership-facing dashboards in Workshop and Quiver, tailoring applications to real-time decision making.
• Conduct exploratory and recurring analysis: establish KPIs, surface anomalies, and present findings with clear caveats and data quality measures.
• Serve as a Senior Data Advisor to client stakeholders; elicit requirements, advise on analytic feasibility, translate questions into deliverable data products.
• Partner with business and system owners to navigate data sharing agreements; apply Foundry markings and permissions to enforce need-to-know access controls.

Skills

SQL

Python (PySpark)

Data modeling

API data contracts

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Data Science / IT

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Foundry Certification

Job description

Management Science and Innovation (MSI) Consulting, LLC seeks a seasoned Data Scientist / Data Integration Engineer to advance our Foundry-based data solutions for federal and civilian clients. You will integrate diverse sources, build pipelines, and deliver dashboards that illuminate mission-critical insights.

The role emphasizes governance, data modeling, and stakeholder collaboration to translate complex questions into actionable data products, with hybrid work in the DC area.