Data Scientist Security Clearance

Position: Data Scientist with Security Clearance
Man Tech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Data Scientist to join our team in Chantilly, VA. In this dynamic role, you will join a top-tier team of Information Technology and Analytic professionals dedicated to supporting national security through innovative data science and analytics. You will work in a self-contained Big Data environment where the team manages everything from infrastructure and application development to advanced analytics.

This position offers numerous opportunities for growth, collaboration, and problem-solving in a thought-provoking, mission-driven setting. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Working with large, complex, and disparate data sets

* Designing and implementing innovative ways to analyze and exploit the Sponsor's data holdings

* Researching and reporting on a wide variety of Sponsor inquiries

* Proactively identifying areas for analysis or exploitation and raising inquiries to the Sponsor

* Applying advanced analytical methodologies to solve difficult, non-routine problems and improve analytic processes

* Developing custom searches

* Participating in threat hunting and/or developing advanced, novel detection mechanisms to counter malicious actors

Minimum Qualifications:

* High School Diploma with 7+ years of experience coding/scripting in Python

* Demonstrated knowledge of appropriate analytic tools and methodologies in one or more of the following:

* Applied mathematics (e.g., probability and statistics, formal modeling, computational social sciences)

* Computer programming (e.g., programming languages, math/statistics packages, computer science, machine learning, scientific computing)

* Experience in collecting information and accurately visualizing and representing it to non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

* Understanding of algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection

* Knowledge of relational databases including SQL and large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop

* Experience with statistical data analysis (e.g., linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling)

* Familiarity with building MVP/Prototype data engineering pipelines to support novel analytics

* Background in computer network operations, particularly network defense and/or exploitation

* Experience in signature development, threat hunting, and/or threat modeling Clearance Requirements:
* An active TS/SCI with Polygraph is required

Physical Requirements:

* Use hands to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer

* The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

* Constantly positions self to maintain computers in the lab, including under desks and in the server closet