Senior Data Scientist

Peraton is seeking a Data Scientist Senior who can leverage experience and expertise in data exploration, engineering, and ETL to explore, architect, develop, and deploy solutions for processing structured and unstructured data into usable data formats for long term storage, search, and analysis. 

  

• Creating a custom ingest pipeline to a Big Data platform with consistent performance and scalability
• Understanding of programming and data engineering concepts and best practice. 
• Experience working with both structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to include data parsing, transformation, schema definition, and query/analysis. 
• Ability to manage and organize data while identifying trends and inconsistencies that will impact downstream analytics 
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively. 
• High levels of curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving capabilities. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Experience with data pipelines or be willing to learn a pipeline from bottom to top 
• Be able to trouble shoot against an architecture to see where the process is failing. 
• Be able to understand unit tests and add to them to increase stability to the entire pipeline. 
• Be prepared to express ideas and solutions and walk together with teammates through coding challenges 

Required Qualifications: 

• A current Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and the ability to pass a polygraph. 
• BS Degree or equivalent and 9 years of experience with programming and software development to include analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, maintenance, quality assurance, troubleshooting and/or upgrading of software systems.  
• 5 years of experience architecting solutions based on customer requirements. 
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting enterprise applications while maintaining 24/7 availability. 

  

Desired Qualifications: 

• AWS experience
• Have knowledge of Databricks  
• Experience with Python, SQL, and/or Spark. 
• Have worked in an Agile environment.  

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.