Data Scientist, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton
Arlington, VA2026-04-17Full time

About the job

As an analytics professional, you’re excited at the prospect of unlocking the secrets held by a data set, and you’re fascinated by the possibilities presented by IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. If you care about moving a mission forward as much as advancing the field of data science, this is the opportunity for you. Your deep analytics and machine learning expertise and consulting mindset, coupled with an original approach to your work, will help clients and stakeholders make sense of their data and encourage actionable results. We’re looking for someone like you to lead complex data exploration and analytics projects through your experience with Python and AI/ML for the Department of Defense.

Responsibilities

Learn and apply innovative data analytic methodologies to make a real-world impact on the development of decision support tools.

Grow your skills in data science, AI, and bibliometrics.

Shape the future of analytics through innovative portfolio analysis and decision support tooling in DoD environments.

Guide a team that serves critical missions from end to end.

Qualifications

Minimum

5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining

5+ years of experience with statistical and general-purpose programming languages for data analysis and analyzing structured and unstructured data sources

Experience developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses, object-oriented programming, and visualization of targeted data sources

Experience clustering and topic modeling, automated query generation, implementation of Generative AI and Large Language Models, natural language processing of unstructured data, entity disambiguation, network analysis, bibliometric and citation analysis, econometric analysis, relationship extraction, or Science and Technology forecasting

Experience in data science tool development, ETL data pipeline development, and Python

Experience devising and managing AI, ML, and GenAI based projects aligned to business needs

Ability to cross-validate models to ensure their generalizability

Secret clearance

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or Statistics

CompTIA Security+ CE, Unix +, or AWS Solutions Architect Certification

Preferred

Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL

Experience with distributed data and computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL

Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2

Experience coordinating a workstream and managing tasks

Experience in data science with a focus on Science and Technology programs