Data Scientist Security Clearance

Position: Data Scientist with Security Clearance
MANTECH International Corporation seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Data Scientist to join our team in Arlington, VA. This is a hybrid position with several days onsite per month as needed. You'll support a U.S. federal civilian agency that serves as the central authority on human capital across the federal workforce, helping advance strategic goals around modernizing its use of data, building a stronger analytics workforce across government, delivering trusted human-capital data products to agencies and employees, and strengthening data governance, privacy, and security.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Develop, deploy, and maintain production ML and NLP models that surface insights from large volumes of human-capital and workforce data, directly supporting decisions made by federal agencies, employees, and the public.
* Build and modernize data products and pipelines that improve data access, integration, and quality across legacy and cloud-based systems.
* Translate ambiguous policy and program questions into well-scoped analytical work, partnering with non-technical stakeholders and presenting results in ways decision-makers can act on.
* Contribute to a modern, cloud-first technology stack (Azure ecosystem) that meets federal standards for security, privacy, and governance.
* Help strengthen the client's internal data-science capability through pairing, code review, knowledge transfer, and reusable tooling.

Minimum Qualifications:

* 2-3 years of experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale ML models in production using real-world data
* Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, data science, or a related quantitative field
* Hands-on experience building and evaluating NLP-based machine learning models
* Strong Python skills for developing and automating ML models and data pipelines
* Proficiency with collaborative development tools (VS Code, Git, Git Hub Copilot)
* Experience working in Agile teams to iteratively develop and deliver data products
* Strong analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, including translating ambiguous requirements into actionable solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience using Azure cloud products such as Azure Databricks, Azure Dev Ops, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Search.
* Experience delivering data-science work in a federal or other regulated environment, with awareness of FedRAMP, FISMA, or similar compliance regimes.
* Experience working with human-capital, workforce, survey, or other administrative-record data.
* Experience with MLOps tooling and patterns for monitoring, retraining, and governing models in production . Clearance Requirements:
* This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust clearance. U.S. citizenship or other status meeting the federal investigative requirements is required at the time of hire.