Data Scientist

Company Overview

Pantheon Data (a Kenific Holding company) is a private, small business based in the Washington, DC, area. Pantheon Data was founded in 2011, initially providing acquisition and supply chain management services to the US Coast Guard. Our service offerings have grown in the past ten years, including infrastructure resiliency, contact center operations, information technology, software engineering, program management, strategic communications, engineering, and cybersecurity. We have also grown our customer base to include commercial clients. The company has used this experience to expand our service offerings to other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other Federal Civilian Agencies.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our team for an upcoming project in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In this role, you will leverage your extensive knowledge to integrate, develop, and maintain analytic models, visualizations, and tools. Your primary focus will be on evaluating, analyzing, and communicating internal/external user behavior, as well as assessing overarching enterprise or portfolio performance.

Responsibilities

• Apply extensive knowledge to integrate, develop, and maintain analytic models, visualizations, and tools to evaluate, analyze and communicate internal/external user behavior and overarching enterprise or portfolio performance.
• Provide statistical and mathematical support in assisting in the analysis and interpretation of a wide range of data to help understand and improve the customer's experience.
• Leverage a range of data sources (e.g., Web traffic, customer requests for information, survey responses, production databases, etc.) for an understanding of what drives a positive customer experience.
• Provide insights that will be used to inform decisions and agency operational strategies, in partnership with teams examining website design, customer interactions, featured content, and future products and services.
• Applies business analytics and customer segmentation techniques in any corporate function, e.g. marketing analytics, consumer analytics, operations analysis, human capital analytics, or other relevant fields.
• Maintain, move, and manipulate data between applications, using appropriate software/code: Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, R, Python, Kibana and others as technology evolves.
• Establish an agile analytics process that provides better insight into ongoing analytic/data visualization activities.
• Manage an inventory of implemented dashboards, other analytic products and current product backlog for implementation.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science , or any related field
• Demonstrated experience developing data analytics models and visualizations employing proven industry standards in statistic/data science principles, practices, and techniques in the analyses of business data.
• Demonstrated experience developing dashboards to effectively convey site metrics to nontechnical audiences, to include but not limited to: communicating warnings and limitations of both coding techniques and statistical analyses depicting current state and providing insight to improvement plan implementation strategies and milestone achievement.
• Demonstrated experience working with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) statistical software or tools for data visualization (i.e., SPSS, SAS, MatLab, Tableau, etc.).
• Demonstrated experience data mining, to include developing, manipulating, or maintaining databases.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing computer programs, software, or a variety of coding languages (i.e., Python, MySQL, D3, SPSS, SAS, Visual Basic, R, etc.) to summarize statistical data and create documents, reports, and presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify methods and approaches to expand and enhance the analytic capacity and ability of an existing portfolio.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating with various partners, stakeholders, or customers on the value of statistical and data science methods to include but not limited to: the strength of models/formulas, their limitations, warnings and weaknesses in various applications.
• Demonstrated experience embracing and participating in a culture of knowledge sharing to broaden the understanding of:
  • Advanced methods
  • Niche statistical methods
  • Data Science analytic methods
  • Coding techniques to include fundamental understanding of model/formula strength, limitations, warnings and weaknesses when applied in various scenarios.

Clearance Requirements

Active Top Secret Clearance

Work Location

Springfield, Virginia

Benefits Overview

We are always looking for good people! Pantheon Data is committed to providing its employees with competitive salaries and benefits in order to increase employee satisfaction and productivity. In addition to our benefits, we also offer SmartBenefits through the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority, where you specify an amount of your pre-tax wages be paid directly to your SmarTrip account. In some cases, tuition assistance may be available for continuing education expenses and certifications related to their position. Additional details may be found at https://pantheon-data.com/careers/

Pantheon Data is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Pantheon Data is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our Talent Team at Recruiting@pantheon-data.com or by phone (571) 363-4020.

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