Senior Data Scientist: Army Optimization (SECRET)

LMI Government Consulting; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting in Tysons, VA seeks a Data Scientist – SME to lead optimization and prescriptive analytics for Army-focused programs. You will design and operationalize decision tools, collaborating with logisticians, ammo SMEs, and data engineers to deploy in Army Vantage and related environments.

Ideal candidates combine 7+ years in advanced analytics with expertise in linear, mixed-integer, stochastic, and robust optimization, plus strong modeling tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in operations research, industrial engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, or related quantitative field; masters or PhD.
• 7+ years of experience in advanced analytics, operations research, or data science, with direct responsibility for optimization model design and deployment.
• Demonstrated expertise in linear and mixed-integer optimization, stochastic optimization, and/or robust optimization.
• Modeling tools and libraries (e.g., Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, or similar).
• Proven experience translating complex mission and business objectives into formal optimization formulations and delivering production-caliber solutions.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
• Active SECRET clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Continue to improve processes that optimize resupply quantities by installation and ammunition type.
• Align regional inventory to demand, reduce excess shipments and storage waste, and safeguard against stock-outs.
• Advance the Army analytics capabilities from descriptive to prescriptive analytics, ensuring models are actionable.
• Collaborate with data engineers to ensure pipelines provide clean input data and embed optimization models into Vantage workflows.
• Design and implement model performance metrics and KPIs with near real-time monitoring of impact.
• Lead experimentation, scenario analysis, and sensitivity studies and mentor junior data scientists.

Skills

Optimization modeling

Linear optimization

Mixed-integer optimization

Stochastic optimization

Robust optimization

Pyomo

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Demand forecasting integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Masters or PhD preferred

Tools

Pyomo

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Job description

LMI Government Consulting in Tysons, VA seeks a Data Scientist – SME to lead optimization and prescriptive analytics for Army-focused programs. You will design and operationalize decision tools, collaborating with logisticians, ammo SMEs, and data engineers to deploy in Army Vantage and related environments.

Ideal candidates combine 7+ years in advanced analytics with expertise in linear, mixed-integer, stochastic, and robust optimization, plus strong modeling tools.