Data Scientist - SME

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions.  We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget. 

We are currently seeking a Data Scientist- SME to join our team.

Primary Job Duties & Required Experience:

·        Demonstrated experience with Python.

·        Demonstrated experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.

·        Demonstrated experience creating and managing AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and

deploying Lambda functions, creating and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with

IAM policies.

·        Demonstrated experience using GitHub.

·        Work closely with the Sponsor’s technical lead to architect, deploy, and maintain multiple, fast-turnaround capabilities

used to perform various highly-visible and high-priority collection efforts.

·        Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure capabilities and deliverables meet defined

requirements and tradecraft needs.

·        Create and maintain collection capabilities and deliverables within the Sponsor’s Amazon Web Services environment

utilizing sponsored approved AWS services.

·        Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.

·        Maintain all source code in Sponsor’s GitHub repository.

·        Document all source code, including how to execute the code.

·        Perform operations and maintenance on the collection capabilities and deliverables to adapt to changes in collection

target, technologies, data formats, and naming conventions.

Highly Desired skills and demonstrated experience

·        Demonstrated experience deploying AWS applications with AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK).  Ansible and Terraform

are NOT a substitute for CDK.

·        Demonstrated experience building and deploying containerized applications.

·        Demonstrated experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach,

Lucene, or AWS’s OpenSearch.

·        Demonstrated experience creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO-SQL databases.

·        Demonstrated experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure

Certifications

·        AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.

Job Requirements

·        Active TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly U.S. Government Security is required

·        Bachelor’s Degree

·        Sixteen (16) years of relevant professional work experience

·        Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

·        Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships

·        Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting.  Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment: Work is performed on client site in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels.  Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions.  Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule:  Business core hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility in Reston,VA.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our HR team at  [email protected]. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.