Data Scientist (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Data Scientist with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.  We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.  We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor has a requirement for data science support to business analytics and developing deeper expertise in global commercial business practices. Lines of effort shall include collecting, conditioning, and processing data to contribute to analyses in response to Sponsor requirements, as well as providing quality assurance of datasets, and supporting new use cases. Priorities will be determined and tracked by the Sponsor.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall perform end-to-end quality assurance of data feeds and data sets.
• The Contractor shall provide support for data triage and assessment at the Sponsor’s site.
• The Contractor shall identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems.
• The Contractor shall attend regular stand-up meetings.
• The Contractor shall provide input to code reviews.
• The Contractor shall cross-train on existing collection tools.
• The Contractor shall support monitoring, alerting, and reporting out (e.g. dashboards).
• The Contractor shall support new use cases.
• The Contractor shall research and document options for collecting or aggregating data from a variety of web based and internal Sponsor platforms.
• The Contractor shall evaluate web based platforms’ ability to detect or deny access.
• The Contractor shall make recommendations on approaches to acquire information.
• The Contractor shall use appropriate tools and computer programming languages, such as Python scripts, to collect and process data from a variety of sources.
• The Contractor shall use Sponsor-network APIs to programmatically access data.
• The Contractor shall create, maintain, and enhance systems in support of data exploitation.
• The Contractor shall create or improve custom collection scripts written in Python.
• The Contractor shall create or improve scripts leveraging APIs for collection needs.
• The Contractor shall automate data clean-up and conditioning of collected data.
• The Contractor shall automate data management and dissemination steps.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience programming in Python.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing questions, formulating requirements, determining suitable analytic approaches, evaluating results, and communicating findings to partners and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats.
• Demonstrated experience with a variety of database types, such as SQL, NoSQL, and SQLite.
• Demonstrated experience defining requirements and infrastructure for running large-scale graph analytics in a production environment.
• Demonstrated experience defining requirements and infrastructure needs for natural language processing in a production environment.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Mandarin Chinese ability (reading) at the 2 level or higher, based on the Sponsor’s or similar rating scale.
• Demonstrated experience programming in common compiled or interpreted languages, such as Ruby, C , Java, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with data management tools, such as Hadoop, MapReduce, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools, such as notebook-based Python visualization libraries, Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with computer network exploitation and remote network operations.
• Demonstrated experience with cyber or technical operations.
• Demonstrated experience with cyber or technical targeting.
• Demonstrated experience conducting data science using the Apache Zeppelin notebooks platform.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with colleagues to develop customer-tailored products.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex, technical findings into an easily understood narrative in graphical, verbal, or written form.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.