Data Scientist

Overview

Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology, delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

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 algorithms 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 to conduct large-scale data processing
• Perform statistical modeling and create data visualizations
• 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 platforms
• Communicate complex concepts and hypothesis to a non-technical audience through digital storytelling

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum of 1-year of Data Science experience 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:
• Due to US Government Contract Requirements, only US Citizens are eligible for this role.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working with the Department of Defense

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelors in Stem field or Master's Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related fields:

Security Clearance:

• Active Interim Secret Clearance is required (TS/SCI Clearance preferred).

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans