Data Scientist I

Contingent on award, Ampersand Solutions Group (AMPERSAND) has a requirement for one or more Data Scientist I who will support a critical DoD mission serving as a data subject matter expert (SME) designing, developing, and optimizing data driven solutions and applications.

Scope: Performs data mining; extending organization’s data with third party sources of information when required; enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems; processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis; conducting ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner; creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance. Candidate will understand machine learning (ML) techniques and algorithms; have experience with common data science toolkits, data visualization tools; proficient with query languages such as SQL; candidate will have applied statistics skills such as distributions; statistical testing, regression, etc; experience scripting and programming

Required Qualifications

• 10-14 years of relevant, related experience plus:
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited institution in engineering, science, or other relevant field or:
    • Associates Degree in a relevant field from an accredited institution plus 12 years relevant, related experience
    • High School Diploma / GED from an accredited institution plus 14 years relevant, related experience
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance at the appropriate level
  • Willing to periodically travel in support of test events

Desired Qualifications

• Masters degree from an accredited institution in engineering, science, or other related field.
• ACTIVE DoD SECRET or TOP SECRET Clearance
• Experience supporting the US Ballistic Missile Defense System
• DoD Instruction 8570.01M IA certification
• Experience handling classified data
• AWS, Azure, VMWare experience

Necessary Qualifications

• Honesty, superior ethics
• Interpersonal savvy, excellent communication skills
• Ability to work as a team
• Initiative
• Positive attitude
• Professionalism