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Data Scientist - SME

Pendulum
Herndon, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/28/2025
Job Description

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Skill Level(s): Subject Matter Expert

  • Organization oversight, support managing the Organization's technical program, scope, schedule, budget, risks, and communication
  • work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions, including innovation efforts for modernization and evolution of core infrastructure, platform, and data lake house.
  • create customer-facing dashboard presentations and maintain system requirements, development process documentation, and monitor report generation and delivery.
  • provide recommendations for cybersecurity and IT operations enhancements, and identify solutions and tools for an efficient, streamlined, scalable approach while maintaining high-quality service.
  • collaborate with in-house development teams to; construct and implement feature enhancements to Organization Analytic platform with a UI/UX mindset; integrate external systems with Organization platform; and develop, implement, and maintain a data lake house against Organization requirements.
  • integrate Organization datasets with corporate machine learning tooling.
  • develop, implement, and maintain solutions that allow Organization platform users to quickly understand and gain value against massive data sets.

Required Skills

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Skill Level(s): Subject Matter Expert

The Candidate shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

  • cybersecurity, IT systems, and A&A processes.
  • facilitation across multi-contractor and staff teams,
  • collaborating with project teams or multiple entities to define project requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • monitoring project progress, identifying roadblocks, and implementing mitigation strategies.
  • designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation.
  • collaborating with data scientists and analysts to ensure data quality and accessibility.
  • building and implementing data governance policies and procedures for data integrity and security.
  • design, implementation, and management of secure andscalable cloud infrastructure solutions.
  • implementation and management of infrastructure-as-code solutions and collaboration with development teams.
  • implementation of Cl/CD pipelines and automation of infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and system monitoring.
  • envisioning and delivering solutions to business problems leveraging machine learning techniques, to include: model training and development; full lifecycle model management.
  • technical architecture expertise, including systems integration and technical leadership.
  • proficiency in complex multi-network and security enclave environments.

Highly Desired Skills

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

  • championing SecDevOps best practices for collaboration, efficiency, and quality.
  • deploying and managing solutions utilizing retrieval augmented generation techniques.
  • big data processing and analysis tools such as Splunk, SOAR, NiFi, or Crib!.
  • data visualization and data lake house technologies.
  • AWS environment networking, security, logging, administration, and provisioning.
  • Organization's accreditation and security, including security controls,

system hardening, and compliance requirements.

  • data transfer tools such as NiFi or CribI.
  • creating ad-hoc scripts in Python and JSON.
  • troubleshooting network connections or scanning.
  • JIRA or another ticketing system for task tracking.
  • familiarity with DevOps lifecycle and ability to coordinate requirements with development teams.
  • Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development.
  • technical proficiency in Linux system administration and DevOps tools.
  • software engineering, cloud computing, data management, and system integration
  • machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and deploying models in cloud environments (SageMaker)
  • data engineering and feature engineering for big data processing and machine learning algorithms.
  • understanding cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure, or GCP) and best practices for cloud-based services and security.
  • Organization's technology, mission, and business systems, as well as architectural vision.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Employment Type: Full Time

Workplace Type: On-Site

WHY PENDULUM

At Pendulum, We Set An Industry Standard Of Doing Right By Our People So We Can Do Right By Our Clients. We Generously Offer

  • 11% 401(k) Matching Contribution
  • 5 weeks of Paid Leave
  • Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, & Vision
  • Generous Training Budget
  • Employee Referral Bonus
  • Business Development / Growth Incentives
  • Opportunities for Paid Training/Certifications and Education

Application Deadline: 2/3/25

Ref#: 2378-04

Please be aware that all of our current positions require an Active U.S Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance with an Active Full Scope Polygraph which requires U.S citizenship.

Pendulum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Pendulum is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.

By submitting your resume for this position, you understand and agree that Pendulum may share your resume, as well as any other related personal information or documentation you provide in your application, with its affiliated companies for the purpose of considering you for other available positions.

Pendulum maintains a drug-free workplace and may perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, where required by contract and permitted by law.

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