What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at LinQuest Corporation?
LinQuest is looking for an energetic and innovative Data Scientist to join our team at the Pentagon. As a Data Scientist, the candidate will be adept at loading and joining data tables, integrating data from diverse static and automatic data sources, writing functions, and configuring charts and data grids. Candidates must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams that work across multiple time zones and have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets. Candidates will have the opportunity to work with unstructured and structured data, develop databases, build data pipelines, and find innovative solutions to complex data problems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Loading and joining data tables, writing functions, and configuring charts and data grids
- Publish charting for automated data feeds of effectiveness metrics
- Provide the ability to display metrics generated from automated data sources
- Research state-of-the-art data mining methods and innovative statistical models
- Identify relevant data sources and sets to mine for client business needs and collect large structured and unstructured datasets and variables
- Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis
- Clearly document and present methodology, assumptions, and findings to stakeholders
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Software Development, Information Technology, or related discipline
- 3-5 years of experience in data engineering
- Manipulating data with SQL and Python
- Developing data pipelines to support analytics
- Documenting and communicating results of analysis
- Experience manipulating data from spreadsheets (i.e. MS Excel)
- Experience with Business Intelligence (BI) Tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik etc.)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with hands on experience driving analytic insights
- Ability and motivation to self-teach in order to stay current with leading best practices in analytics
- Expected to deliver in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment
- Must thrive in satisfying analytic requirements from diverse user base
- Must have the knowledge and communication skills to articulate trade-offs between analytic techniques, recommend a course of action to clients, and provide effective updates on project outcome uncertainty to leadership
- US citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance are required
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Text mining and unstructured data analysis techniques
- Machine Learning techniques
- Language/Scripting skills: Python, Databricks Spark Compute
- Tools: Qlik
- Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) experience
- Predictive and prescriptive analysis
- Optimization experience
- Experience processing data in Advana
- A current/active DoD security clearance
Why LinQuest?
LinQuest Corporation has a stellar 40-year track record of providing end-to-end system-of-systems (SoS) architecture definition, engineering design, integration and test, and operations expertise to enable full lifecycle development and deployment of pre-eminent Space, Air, Land, Sea, Ground, and Cyberspace game-changing capabilities across US DOD and IC Customers' portfolios. Unique combination of in-depth domain knowledge, lessons learned-honed best practices, and mission-specific applications of principles, tools, and techniques of Digital Engineering (DE), DE Ecosystem (DEE), and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) set LinQuest apart from the competition to consistently deliver stellar high-value results for our customers. LinQuest's corporate vision and values place the employee at the center of utmost customer satisfaction, strategic business growth, and tactical execution excellence. Our employees' creative and inspirational drive, sense of fulfillment of personal and professional growth, and tightknit camaraderie within and across lines of business are essential in gaining and maintaining exceptional LinQuest corporate-wide results of new business awards and renewed contracts.
Benefits:
LinQuest offers comprehensive and competitive benefit offerings to our team members to include medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, company paid life insurance, and more! For additional information please visit: https://www.linquest.com/careers/our-benefits
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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to providing a work environment that values and respects each Team Member as an individual and important member of our culturally diverse organization. In keeping with this commitment, the Company is dedicated to providing a work environment free from any type of discrimination based upon race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, covered veteran and military status, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics, political affiliation, or any other classification protected by law. This commitment and policy applies to all areas of employment.
