Senior Data Architect for Federal Data & Analytics

ThinkTek; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical, dental, and vision insurance

PTO and paid leave options

Job summary

ThinkTek LLC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics, ML, and AI for large federal programs. You will leverage data science expertise to deliver mission-critical insights, predictive capabilities, and decision-support tools in secure environments.

Responsibilities include designing data models, pipelines, and dashboards, while ensuring IL5 security compliance and data integrity across disparate systems. A strong background in Python/R and visualization tools is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field (Master's or PhD preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, or related fields.
• Demonstrated expertise with Python, R, or similar programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of machine learning, AI, and statistical modeling techniques.
• Experience with SQL and working with large-scale databases.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent).
• Experience working in secure federal or DoD environments.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Data Migration Plan.
• Document current ("As-Is") and future state ("To-Be") conceptual, logical, and physical data models and data dictionaries.
• Map legacy data elements from disparate systems to the future state data schema.
• Draft and propose data quality rules for approval, and support cleansing efforts under direction to identify and remediate duplicate, orphaned, or corrupted records prior to migration.
• Utilize data engineering best practices to build scalable, automated transformation pipelines.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to design, engineer, and oversee the technical interfaces and data pipelines required for continuous, secure data synchronization.
• Ensure all engineered data models, pipelines, and architectures comply with relevant architectures and DoD IL5 data security protocols.
• Design and engineer the underlying data structures and optimized data models necessary for generating high-level dashboards and executive metrics.
• Serve as primary expert and liaison (internal and external) for data architecture.

Skills

Python

R

Machine Learning

SQL

Data Visualization (Tableau/Power BI)

DoD/Secure Environments

U.S. Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

ThinkTek LLC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics, ML, and AI for large federal programs. You will leverage data science expertise to deliver mission-critical insights, predictive capabilities, and decision-support tools in secure environments.

Responsibilities include designing data models, pipelines, and dashboards, while ensuring IL5 security compliance and data integrity across disparate systems. A strong background in Python/R and visualization tools is essential.