Data Scientist

Our client currently seeks a Data Scientist Software Engineer to support prototyping efforts focused on improving Battle Management and information sharing for the DoD from the tactical edge to secure cloud-based environments.

Skills Required:

• Strong object-oriented and SOA-based development skills

• Proficiency in Python, C++ and/or Java

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Istio and associated tooling

• Familiarity with web frameworks (angular, nodejs, django)

• Proficiency with containers and container orchestration (docker and kubernetes)

• Experience with pub-sub/streaming/event-based architectures (kafka and activemq)

• Experience developing distributed and cloud-based systems and services

• Experience developing RESTful and/or SOAP based web services

• Experience developing API for databases (SQL, non-SQL)

• Familiarity with microservice based architectures

• Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, HBASE

• Experience reviewing and assessing existing full lifecycle data-driven applications

• Experience with agile development methods

Helpful Skills:

• Proficiency developing large distributed systems applying techniques for low-latency system performance

• Proficiency with React or another modern frontend framework

• Experience with Data Bus, Data Ops, and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) technologies

• Familiarity with DevSecOps pipelines, practices, techniques, and technologies (jenkins and maven)

• Familiarity with AI/Machine Learning libraries, software stacks and applications

• Experience gathering, decomposing and analyzing system requirements

• Skilled at analyzing large, complex systems to assess performance and opportunities to improve efficiency

Other:

Work location: Hybrid – Individual works from home or off-site for a portion of their schedule and within a routinely commutable distance from the client’s facility. **The position is hybrid but candidates MUST be flexible and work on-site when required.

Travel: Estimated at 5% – domestic.

Interview process: Initial pre-screen with HM. If candidate advances to next round, will be larger group interview with technical team.

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