Senior Data Scientist & Data Architect (DoD)

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Senior Data Scientist/Engineer to design, build, and sustain an MRT-C baseline and decision-support products for PACOM J6. Location options include Annapolis Junction, MD or Honolulu, HI.

Responsibilities cover data architecture, ETL pipelines, QA documentation, and cross-domain information sharing per DoD standards. The role requires extensive experience (12+ years with a BS/BA, more with MS/MA or PhD) and active TS/SCI or ability to obtain SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with BS/BA or equivalent; advanced degrees count towards experience.
• Strong technical and computational skills in engineering, physics, and math.
• Ability to code, design, develop, and deploy sophisticated applications for unstructured/semi-structured data.
• Knowledge of cyber defense policies, regulations, and audit-related compliance.
• Active TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain SCI; U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and sustainment of MRT-C baseline and decision-support products.
• Ensure data architecture and pipelines conform to DoD standards for USPACOM Azure cloud.
• Define data models, storage, access controls, and integration points for MRT-C baseline.
• Develop data pipelines and ETL to ingest, normalize, and integrate terrain data within 90 days.
• Support QA reviews, produce Baseline QA Reports documenting data completeness and VAULTIS conformance.
• Support development of POM/FYDP inputs per J8 and Commander guidance.

Skills

Data architecture

ETL development

High-performance computing

Data analysis

Cloud computing

Technical leadership

Tools

Java

Linux

Python

.NET

C++

JSON

XML

XSLT

JDBC

SOAP

REST

Job description

Peraton seeks a Senior Data Scientist/Engineer to design, build, and sustain an MRT-C baseline and decision-support products for PACOM J6. Location options include Annapolis Junction, MD or Honolulu, HI.

Responsibilities cover data architecture, ETL pipelines, QA documentation, and cross-domain information sharing per DoD standards. The role requires extensive experience (12+ years with a BS/BA, more with MS/MA or PhD) and active TS/SCI or ability to obtain SCI clearance.