Senior Data Scientist - ML & NLP, Pipelines (TS/SCI)

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to unlock insights from large–scale data across IoT, ML and AI initiatives. You will develop end-to-end workflows, lead teams, and work with clients to translate questions into actionable algorithms.

The role emphasizes production-grade pipelines, data lake integration, and model deployment at scale, including document classification, extraction, and search across millions of documents weekly.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with applied data science or ML roles, including using Python, NLP, and LLM implementation
• 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
• Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
• Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
• Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
• Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
• Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
• TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Lead development of algorithms and systems for data science applications
• Guide teammates and drive end-to-end ML workflow implementation
• Collaborate with clients to understand questions and translate them into data-driven solutions
• Deploy and monitor models within production pipelines handling large-scale data

Skills

Python

NLP

LLM implementation

Data exploration

Data cleaning

Data analysis

Data visualization

Data mining

production-level systems

data lakes

Kafka

end-to-end ML workflows

production pipelines

document classification

extraction

summarization

search

infrastructure concepts

ML model ownership

TS/SCI clearance

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Databricks

MapReduce

Hadoop

Hive

EMR

Spark

MySQL

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to unlock insights from large–scale data across IoT, ML and AI initiatives. You will develop end-to-end workflows, lead teams, and work with clients to translate questions into actionable algorithms.

The role emphasizes production-grade pipelines, data lake integration, and model deployment at scale, including document classification, extraction, and search across millions of documents weekly.