Mission-Critical Data Scientist: Gov Analytics & NLP

General Dynamics IT; Fort Walton Beach (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT seeks a Data Scientist to support government, defense, and intelligence projects by querying, cleaning, and modeling data to generate actionable insights for leadership, with a strong focus on data quality and security.

This role requires TS/SCI clearance and proficiency in Python/R and SQL, along with experience building dashboards and reports using Power BI to enable informed decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline with coursework in statistics and programming.
• Minimum of one year of experience applying data science or statistical methods to real-world problems.
• Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and SQL for querying relational data.
• Working knowledge of applied statistics and supervised/unsupervised machine-learning methods.
• Ability to prepare and clean data for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Query, clean, transform, and prepare data from government sources for analysis.
• Develop, validate, and document predictive and prescriptive models.
• Support NLP use cases to analyze unstructured data with approved tools.
• Develop dashboards and executive reports using Power BI.
• Support analyses measuring ROI and program efficacy.
• Automate recurring analyses and monthly/quarterly reports.
• Document data sources, transformations, and validation procedures.
• Communicate complex concepts to non-technical leadership.
• Collaborate with clinical staff to improve data quality.
• Maintain data quality, security, and privacy controls (IL5, HIPAA).

Skills

Data Analysis

Data Analytics

Data Science

Data Visualization

Statistics

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Power BI

Python

R

SQL

Job description

General Dynamics IT seeks a Data Scientist to support government, defense, and intelligence projects by querying, cleaning, and modeling data to generate actionable insights for leadership, with a strong focus on data quality and security.

This role requires TS/SCI clearance and proficiency in Python/R and SQL, along with experience building dashboards and reports using Power BI to enable informed decision making.