Big Data & Innovation Support Lead

Job ID: 2504113

Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US

Date Posted: 2025-04-02

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Big Data Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

SAIC is seeking a Big Data & Innovation Support Lead to support a comprehensive technical modernization effort supporting DIA's intelligence mission in the Washington, DC and surrounding areas. This effort focuses on advancing big data analytics, AI/ML capabilities, and cloud-based solutions to enhance military intelligence processing and decision-making.

Please note that this is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated decision expected by fall 2025.

The Big Data & Innovation Support Lead responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Defining a Big Data implementation framework; translating mission needs into Big Data system, analytic, and visualization tools requirements; and working with multi-disciplinary teams to design, guide engineering solutions, and explore, examine, and visualize data to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data
• Managing digital data that comes from many different data providers; consists of a variety of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data types, and has an enormous volume, varying velocity (periodic static documents to real-time data feeds), and is rapidly growing
• Design, development, test, deployment, and use of associated advanced analytic and data science tools including data visualization, link analysis, correlation, sophisticated analytics programs, ML, and statistical methods to prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modeling

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelors and 18 years or more experience; Masters and 16 years or more experience; PhD and 15 years or more experience
• 5 years of hands-on experience with Big Data applications, such as Hadoop and associated applications (e.g., administration, CM, monitoring, performance tuning, etc.)
• Experience working in a Government mission Data Exploitation environment (e.g., acquiring data, storing data, processing data, analyzing data, visualizing data, turning data into intelligence products, disseminating data, and knowledge management)
• Experience supporting a cloud computing environment (e.g., private, hybrid, and/or public)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience leading and managing cross-functional technology team
• Experience leading major programming/scripting languages like Java, Linux, C , PHP, Ruby, Python, and/or R
• Experience working with ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, and/or Pentaho
• Experience designing solutions for multiple large data warehouses with cluster and parallel architecture as well as high-scale or distributed platforms
• Experience in the research and development of applications/services in disciplines such as: Natural Language Processing, ML, Conceptual Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Predictive Modeling, and Hypothesis testing

Target salary range: $240,001 - $280,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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