Senior Data Scientist - AI/ML & LLMs for Impact

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to unlock insights from data, including IoT, ML, and AI-enabled projects. You will lead cross-functional teams, develop algorithms, and collaborate with clients to translate complex data into actionable decisions.

A TS/SCI clearance is required for this role. The position emphasizes leadership, data visualization, and the ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders across sensitive DoW/IC engagements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience correlating complex technical findings into graphical, written, visual, and verbal narrative products.
• 5+ years of experience building advanced analytics and AI/ML models, including data retrieval, cleaning, modeling, evaluation and visualization.
• Experience working on classified networks in support of DoW or IC clients.
• Ability to visualize complex data and concepts for non-technical leadership, highlighting system risks and Go/No-Go criteria.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience with mathematics, statistics, information science, AI, machine learning, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, or data warehousing, or 12+ years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of algorithms and systems.
• Guide teammates and work with clients to understand questions and needs.
• Turn data into objective answers to inform client decisions.

Skills

Narrative data storytelling

Data visualization

Leadership

AI/ML modeling

TS/SCI clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years experience in STEM fields

12+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

LLMs / agentic AI tools

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to unlock insights from data, including IoT, ML, and AI-enabled projects. You will lead cross-functional teams, develop algorithms, and collaborate with clients to translate complex data into actionable decisions.

A TS/SCI clearance is required for this role. The position emphasizes leadership, data visualization, and the ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders across sensitive DoW/IC engagements.