As a Junior Data Scientist, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users' access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will work with talented developers and colleagues, gaining exposure to industry best practices such as AWS cloud solutions.

Responsibilities:

• As a Junior Data Scientist, you will work as part of team of data engineers, database developers and visualization specialists to analyze large sets of structured data, looking for anomalies and undiscovered correlations
• Perform deep dive analysis into data sets and reports to identify problems or suspected issues with data
• Able to develop & use exceptionally complex concepts & processes that span multiple organizations and disciplines
• Participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase available data quality and speed of delivery
• Participate on an Agile development team, using Scrum techniques, as a contributing development team member
• Work with the software engineering team to deploy models that provide ongoing forecasts, optimizations, recommendations, and insights to support the Chief Data Office

Here’s What You’ll Need:

Must have experience as a data scientist using imagery data:

• Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, JavaScript, C++ with documentation for reproducibility Strong knowledge and experience of visual programming or object-oriented modeling workflows to automate data acquisition
• Ability to manipulate data from multiple structured and unstructured data sources
• Apply analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance
• Ability to conduct data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions
• Ability to identify and appropriately evaluate a wide range of existing methods, models and algorithms in familiar domains for a variety of mission driven problems while recognizing the capabilities and limitations of each method
• Ability to categorize the data and metadata to build the metadata application profile.
• Experience with Apache Hadoop, HUE, Hive, Pig, Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Tableau

Clearance:

• TS/SCI with ability to obtain a Poly

Experience/Education:

• Minimum Education:  Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years' experience, or a master's degree plus 1-3 years of experience
• Minimum Years of Experience:  Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years' experience, or a master's degree plus 1-3 years of experience

The Bison Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, genetic information, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or our policy statement, please email EEO@bisongroupusa.com.  If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail Accessibiity@bisongroupusa.com.  This mailbox is created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only emails sent for this purpose will be returned. Emails left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues not related to a disability, will not receive a response.

Disclaimer: This position offers a wage or salary range based on market data and internal pay policies. This range is a good-faith estimate and may vary depending on qualifications, experience, and other factors. We do not request or use prior compensation history in making employment decisions. Any voluntary disclosure of prior wage information may be considered to support a higher offer but will not be used to justify a lower offer.

The Bison Group offers benefit options including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and accrued PTO including vacation, sick leave and holidays.

The listed pay range serves as a general guideline rather than a guaranteed salary. Final compensation is determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, role-specific responsibilities; candidate qualifications such as education, skills, and mission-aligned experience; market data, business considerations, internal equity, and any applicable legal or bargaining agreements (if any).