Data Scientist

Iron EagleX is a veteran owned defense contracting company based in Tampa, FL.

It is our mission to provide solutions to the most challenging technical problems facing the Department of Defense while simultaneously making a positive impact on our employees and community.

Responsibilities

Job Description:

The Data Scientist will support the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Chief Data Office (CDO) and be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a data pipeline. Additionally, the Data Scientist shall interpret and analyze complex sets of data and plan, execute, and manage ML projects with cloud-native platforms and advanced ML solutions. They will leverage multiple methodologies such as data mining, natural language programming, and machine learning.

Job Duties Include (but not limited to):

• Interpret and analyze data using exploratory mathematic and statistical techniques based on the scientific method
• Coordinate research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data
• Experiment against data points, provide information based on experiment results, and provide previously undiscovered solutions to command data challenges
• Coordinate with Data Engineers to build data environments providing data identified by other data professionals
• Apply and develop scientific methodology, statistics, and algorithims to discover and frame relevant problems, hypotheses, and opportunities
• Develop predictive and prescriptive modeling, natural language processing (NLP), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), text mining and processing, clustering, forecasting methods, and other advanced statistical techniques
• Design and automate processes to facilitate the manipulation and analysis of data
• Manage and integrate data across dissimilar data sets and analyze large-scale structured and unstructured data
• Use frameworks such as Spark and Hadoop to conduct large-scale data processing
• Perform statistical modeling and create data visualizations using products like Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and R Shiny
• Research, design, and implement algorithms to solve complex problems
• Program using R, Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas) or similar analytical languages
• Perform data engineering, data processing, and modeling techniques using cloud-based data management, data science, and ML platformssuch as Databricks, IBM Cloud Pak, Cloudera, and Snowflake
• Communicate complex concepts and hypothesis to a non-technical audience through digital storytelling
  
  

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in data analysis, reporting, and engineering is required
• Proficient with one or more programming languages (Java, C++, Python, R, etc.)
• Proficient in Agile Development and Git Operations
• Demonstrated experience applying data science methods to real-world data problems
• Must be able to define and document appropriate advanced analytic methods, predictive analysis, pattern analysis, and the like
• Unit testing and associated frameworks
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
  
  

Desired Skills:

• Experience working with the Department of Defense
  
  

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s in Information Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience desired
• Certificate in Data Analysis or other relevant experience or training
  
  

Security Clearance:

• Interim Secret Clearance is required while DoD Secret Security Clearance is prefered
  
  

Benefits:

• National health, vision, and dental plans
• 20 days of PTO and 11 paid holidays
• Life Insurance
• Short and long term disability plans
• 401(K) retirement plan
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Relocation opportunities