Sr Data Scientist- TS/SCI Poly

TalentOps; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks PTO

Birthday leave

11 floating holidays

401(k) with 10% employer contribution

Medical plan options (Anthem)

Employer-paid dental coverage

Employer-paid vision coverage

Life and AD&D coverage

Profit sharing

Performance bonus opportunities

Job summary

TalentOps in Chantilly, VA seeks an experienced Data Scientist to support mission-critical data collection and analysis. The role emphasizes Python development, AI/ML, data engineering, AWS, and geospatial work.

You will architect and deploy fast-turnaround capabilities, handle diverse data formats, and collaborate with partners to ensure data quality and usable insights in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience with AI/ML techniques.
• Geospatial data formats and tools experience.
• Experience with AWS resources (EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM).
• Familiarity with GitHub for source control.
• Experience with containerized applications and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, deploy, and maintain fast-turnaround data collection capabilities.
• Strategically apply AI/ML techniques to extract, process, format, analyze, and expose content via indexed search tools.
• Work with structured and unstructured data (JSON, CSV, Parquet, XML, etc.).
• Provide data engineering support: cleaning, transforming, modeling data.
• Develop solutions for processing and analyzing geospatial data.
• Move data between cloud storage environments for critical requirements.
• Create and maintain AWS resources (EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM).
• Validate data quality and formats against requirements.
• Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to meet requirements.
• Maintain code in GitHub and document deployments.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Geospatial data

Data engineering

AWS

GitHub

Tools

AWS CDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to support highly visible and mission-critical data collection and analysis efforts in Chantilly, VA. This role will focus on developing tailored solutions that accelerate the secure, reliable, and timely delivery of open-source data, information, and insights.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of Python development, AI/ML, data engineering, AWS, and geospatial experience and be comfortable working with complex datasets that vary widely in format, structure, and schema.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with technical leadership to architect, develop, deploy, and maintain fast-turnaround capabilities supporting high-priority collection efforts.
• Strategically apply AI/ML techniques to extract, process, format, analyze, and expose relevant content through indexed search tools.
• Work with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, including raw text, audio, images, video, documents, CSV, Parquet, Avro, JSON, JSONL, XML, and other evolving data formats.
• Provide data engineering support, including cleaning, transforming, modeling, and formatting data from known and unknown sources.
• Develop solutions for processing and analyzing geospatial data.
• Move data between cloud storage environments in support of critical requirements.
• Create and maintain capabilities within an AWS environment using approved cloud services.
• Build and manage AWS resources, including EC2, Lambda, S3, and IAM.
• Validate collected and processed data to ensure it meets required formats and quality standards.
• Collaborate with technical teams, mission partners, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions meet defined requirements.
• Maintain source code within GitHub and provide clear documentation for code, deployment, and execution.
• Perform ongoing operations and maintenance to adapt solutions to changing technologies, collection targets, data formats, schemas, and naming conventions.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Demonstrated professional experience with Python.
• Experience with geospatial software, programming packages, and geospatial data formats.
• Hands-on experience creating and managing AWS resources, including:
  • EC2
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon S3
  • IAM policies and permissions
• Experience using GitHub for source code management.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience deploying AWS applications using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
  AWS CDK experience is specifically desired; Ansible and Terraform are not considered substitutes.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Experience developing, integrating with, or maintaining search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Lucene, or Amazon OpenSearch.
• Experience creating and programmatically working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• AWS certifications such as:
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex data problems and can move quickly from an evolving requirement to a functional technical solution. The right candidate will be comfortable working with unfamiliar datasets, applying AI/ML where appropriate, and developing scalable cloud-based solutions in a fast-paced mission environment.

If you have a strong background in Python, AWS, data engineering, AI/ML, and geospatial data and hold an active TS/SCI with Polygraph, we’d love to connect.

This position offers a highly competitive, employer-supported benefits package, including:

5 weeks of PTO plus birthday leave

11 floating holidays

401(k) with 10% employer contribution

Multiple medical plan options through Anthem, including:

Platinum PPO national plan

Gold PPO national plan

Gold HMO HSA national plan

Employer-paid dental coverage through Delta Dental PPO Plus Premier

Employer-paid vision coverage through VSP / DeltaVision

Employer-paid Life and AD&D coverage at 2x salary, up to $400,000

Optional voluntary Life and AD&D coverage from $10,000 to $500,000, not to exceed 5x salary

Employer-paid Short-Term Disability, covering 60% of salary up to $2,500

Employer-paid Long-Term Disability, covering 60% of salary up to $10,000 per month

Health Savings Account availability, depending on selected health plan

$1,000 annual Lifestyle Savings Account

$5,000 annual professional development reimbursement for degrees, training, and certifications

$1,000 annual technology reimbursement

Candidate referral bonus program, up to $10,000

Discretionary profit sharing

Discretionary performance bonus opportunities

New contract bonus opportunities, up to $10,000

Employer-paid access to online training through Udemy and Paylocity

Optional pet insurance through Pets Best

Access to Working Advantage employee discounts and rewards programs at no cost

About the Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a Full Stack Software Developer with strong cloud, data analytics, and application development experience to support high-impact mission work. The selected candidate will contribute to modern, scalable, and secure software solutions that improve data processing, analytics, search, automation, and enterprise digital architecture across a mission‑critical environment.