Data Scientist

Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Data Scientist supporting the client with the requirements for new system capabilities, the extension and maintenance of bulk data pipeline and enhancements for multiple applications in the customers' cloud computing environment.

Why Acuity?

We’re building more than careers—we’re building a place people genuinely love to work. At Acuity, you’ll get:

• Strong work-life balance and a people-first culture
• Competitive compensation + Health/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications and up to $3,000 for degree seeking programs

Recognized as a Best Places to Work (Washington Business Journal, 8+ years) Named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post (2022–2025)

Ready to grow with a team that invests in you?

Are you ready to use your expertise in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation to make a real difference? Join Acuity, Inc., a technology consulting firm that supports federal agencies. We combine industry partnerships and long-term federal experience with innovative technical leadership to support our customers’ critical missions.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience utilizing big data processing tech such as Spark, Pyspark, and Python.
• Demonstrated experience data mapping, extraction, transformation and loading.
• Demonstrated experience building analytic reports in tools such as Cloud Watch and Kibana.
• Demonstrated experience processing and converting of OS and Data Logs into reports and metrics Dashboards.
• Demonstrated experience with Regular Expressions (Reg Ex).
• Demonstrated experience with SQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL.
• Demonstrated experience with Data file type processing XML, JSON.
• Demonstrated experience with IDEs and Data Modeling through Notebooks and Visual Studio.
• Demonstrated experience ETL’ing data from disparate structured & unstructured data formats into enriched, query-friendly, structured data in indexed files.
• Demonstrated experience performing extensive data review and data quality analysis.
• Demonstrated experience developing ETL design documentation including source and target mapping and data dictionary information.
• Demonstrated experience interfacing with customers and integration partners for gaining and clarifying detailed objectives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Agile development by contributing to tasking definition, scope, and review.

Preferred

Skills:

• Demonstrated experience deploying capabilities on the Databricks unified analytics platform.
• Demonstrated experience with Elastic Map Reduce to run big data workloads.
• Demonstrated experience in joining multiple complex data sets using Spark.
• Demonstrated experience in tuning Spark streaming and batch jobs for cluster utilization and speed.
• Demonstrated experience in deploying complex, notebook-based pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience in Python data analysis libraries such as Pandas.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing Cloud services such as Lambda, SNS/SQS, or EC2.
• Demonstrated experience with Dev Ops tools to include Cloudwatch, Lambda, SQS, Dynamo and RDS.
• Demonstrated experience working with Elastic, Elastic Search/Logstash/Kibana (ELK stack).

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

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The salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.