Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Engineer — Enterprise Data & Cloud

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton’s SITE III BES program seeks a Senior Data Analyst/Scientist to join the mission-driven team. You will shape data collection, enrichment, and analytics across intelligence community enterprise systems, including acquisition, training, security, and human resources.

You will build frameworks and automated pipelines, analyze complex datasets, create reports and visualizations, and help steer cloud-based data architectures within the customer environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass a poly.
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; additional 4 years may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 3+ years working in the Data Science field with statistical languages (R, Python, SQL) and large data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with mission stakeholders to identify data needs and design collection methods.
• Analyze operational and business data to uncover trends and actionable insights.
• Develop frameworks, tools, and automated pipelines for data collection, transformation, and integration.
• Work with large, complex datasets to locate signal within noise and extract meaningful information.
• Apply data mining, statistical analysis, and exploratory modeling to support decision-making.
• Create clear reports, visualizations, and briefings for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Correlate data across systems to highlight relationships and drive outcomes.
• Contribute to cloud-based data architectures and analytics capabilities.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Python

SQL

R

Data visualization

Communication

Problem solving

Data mining

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

JSON

XML

REST

JDBC

XSLT

SOAP

Job description

Peraton’s SITE III BES program seeks a Senior Data Analyst/Scientist to join the mission-driven team. You will shape data collection, enrichment, and analytics across intelligence community enterprise systems, including acquisition, training, security, and human resources.

You will build frameworks and automated pipelines, analyze complex datasets, create reports and visualizations, and help steer cloud-based data architectures within the customer environment.