Senior Data Scientist, Operational Analytics & Dashboards

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Data Scientist to transform complex workstream and program data into trusted metrics, insights, and decision-support products for the BNATCS CTO Advanced Analytics and Digital Command Center teams.

Join a team that interprets, models, visualizes, and operationalizes data to support FAA modernization objectives, collaborating with CTO leadership and mission stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics across dashboards and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with a BS/BA, 6+ years with a MS/MA, or 3+ with a PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related technical discipline
• Experience analyzing complex structured, semi-structured, operational, program, or business datasets to support decision-making
• Proficiency with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytical tools, with the ability to develop notebooks, scripts, queries, and reusable analysis artifacts
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, statistical analysis, trend analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, clustering, or predictive modeling
• Experience defining or supporting metrics, KPIs, dashboards, reports, or decision-support products
• Ability to assess data quality, completeness, consistency, and analytical usefulness
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational and stakeholder questions into structured analyses and measurable outputs
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain an FAA Public Trust clearance

Responsibilities

• Analyze workstream, requirements, IMS, schedule, risk, operational, and program data to identify trends, dependencies, gaps, anomalies, and decision-relevant insights
• Define operational metrics, KPIs, analytical logic, thresholds, and decision-support views for Digital Command Center dashboards and advanced analytics products
• Assess the quality, completeness, consistency, and usability of data made available through enterprise data repositories
• Partner with data architects and data engineers to identify data gaps, transformation needs, metadata requirements, and analytics-readiness issues
• Support ai-enabled analytics workflows by helping define trusted data inputs, context, validation criteria, and human-in-the-loop review considerations
• Develop notebooks, scripts, SQL queries, statistical analyses, models, and reusable analytical artifacts to support data exploration and decision-making
• Translate ambiguous operational questions into structured analysis, measurable metrics, and clear recommendations
• Communicate assumptions, limitations, findings, and implications to technical teams, program leadership, and mission stakeholders

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Data analysis

Dashboards

Statistical modeling

Communicate findings

Education

BS/BA in Data Science, CS, Statistics or related

MS/MA or PhD preferred

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

AWS

Glue

Athena

Redshift

SageMaker

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Peraton seeks a Data Scientist to transform complex workstream and program data into trusted metrics, insights, and decision-support products for the BNATCS CTO Advanced Analytics and Digital Command Center teams.

Join a team that interprets, models, visualizes, and operationalizes data to support FAA modernization objectives, collaborating with CTO leadership and mission stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics across dashboards and workflows.