Principal Data Scientist, Mission Systems Analytics

Northrop Grumman; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman in Charlottesville, VA, seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead data execution initiatives, develop data architecture and predictive models, and collaborate with frontend visualization specialists and product stakeholders to deploy data pipelines from authoritative sources.

The role focuses on building scalable analytics, publishing Tableau/Power BI dashboards, and guiding cross-team data integration to influence strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years experience building or creating data workflows, or a Master’s degree with at least 3 years of experience.
• Experience working with SQL to ingest, process, store, and analyze data
• Experience with data visualization tools Tableau, Power BI, or Excel
• US Citizenship
• Ability to obtain a government Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, design, development and implementation of solutions to address ongoing business performance opportunities and performance improvement initiatives.
• Work in a fast-paced, Agile/Scrum based environment focused on stakeholder outcomes.
• Work with teams across the sector to understand analytics and data modeling requirements.
• Help architect and build data pipelines connected to multiple systems and tools.
• Develop and publish Tableau server dashboards and visualizations used to inform individuals and leaders across the sector.
• Support cross-team development efforts for multiple projects, including data cleanup, ingestion, and linkage with other data sets.
• Document design, deployment and operating procedures for each work product.
• Present data in a meaningful way to executive management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data workflows

SQL

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

SAP

SSIS

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Hadoop

Job description

Northrop Grumman in Charlottesville, VA, seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead data execution initiatives, develop data architecture and predictive models, and collaborate with frontend visualization specialists and product stakeholders to deploy data pipelines from authoritative sources.

The role focuses on building scalable analytics, publishing Tableau/Power BI dashboards, and guiding cross-team data integration to influence strategic decisions.