Job ID: 2306906

Location: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, US

Date Posted: 2023-05-15

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Scientist

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC’s Horizon 2 Program is seeking a Data Scientist to join our National Space Test and Training Complex (NSTTC) program located in Colorado Springs, CO.

The Data Scientist will coordinate with government and partner data stewards across the program and US Space Force data enterprise to manage data strategies, cross-cutting infrastructure, and processes to drive consistent data governance for test and training purposes while ensuring enterprise solutions so that data consumers and producers can find, securely access, and use data more effectively and confidently. We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic people who are excited about taking on a variety of challenges as we continue to develop an test and training enterprise data governance solution and support enterprise data & analytic solutions. Successful candidates will be able to work under only very general supervision.

Occasional travel may be required to engage with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Independently evaluate, select, adapt, and modify data strategies, plans, and potential solutions and conduct engineering assessments for integration into large-scale enterprise data governance
• Engage with government technical data stewards to aid in conducting data lineage, deriving business rules (attributes, calculations, derivations, etc.), and understanding data attribute’s purpose and utilization
• Direct the definition, aggregation, and maintenance of critical data elements needed to populate modeling, simulation, and analyses software
• Coordinate with government data stewards to create enterprise level data quality metrics and a quality data model, consistent across enterprise solutions
• Support on-boarding and integration of data sources and serve as a liaison between government organizations in support of federated governance model
• Analyze complex data problems and apply principles and practices of the data disciplines while devising new approaches and solutions to data problem sets
• Partner with government customer data administrators to ensure that standards and governance are understood and well implemented
• Managing day-to-day activities to ensure the data processes run smoothly and support issue and resolution tasks for data issues
• Create capabilities to perform data quality audits, find data collection issues, suggest improvements, while acting on findings as necessary and implementing fixes

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Masters in Physics and 14+ years experience in related field
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• DevSecOps Certification
• Experience .NET/C#/ASP-MVC/AngularJS Development
• Experience with Data Science/Spark/CouchDB/Cloudera/Rapidminer/Hive/DataCleaner/Storm
• Experience with ASP.NET with Razor and AngularJS
• Experience with SQL Server and SQL Server Integration Services
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Desired Qualifications:

• PhD in Physics or related field of expertise

Target salary range: $185,001 - $195,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.