Data Scientist

Armison Tech is a minority owned small business, established in 2012, located in the Northern Virginia area. We’re a company predominantly focused on cyber security for our government customers yet our expertise in other areas include big data analytics, instructional design, information management, and computer network infrastructure. We invest in our employees careers by participating in cutting edge cyber security training and attending industry leading conferences.

As a small business we offer flexibility and powerful benefits supporting our most important assets, our employees and their families.

Armison Tech is constantly searching for exceptionally qualified technology professionals who would make a great addition to our team. Our staff, just like our clients and the work we do, is what makes Armison Tech a truly effective partner. As we help each of our new employees make adjustments to our operational methods, we make sure every professional is able to handle the workload of each project by resolving any relevant concerns or issues they may have relating to this recent career shift.

Our hiring process seeks to accentuate the raw talent and skill-set of our team members. Along with the importance of experience and education,
Armison Tech looks for the superior analytical and communication ability that separates our employees from what we’ve seen while working with some similar companies. Individuals we employ must have a demonstrated ability to excel in high-pressure situations which have a real impact on the modern world so we can continue to keep pace with the competition and the evolving fields of technology.

Location: Reston, VA (on-site client environment)
Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph
Compensation: Competitive, Excellent Benefits

Only applicants with the active required security clearance and are U.S. Citizens will be reviewed.

Armison Tech is looking for a candidate skilled in data science and visualization, to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. We require developer support in creating tailored solutions to tackle unique global data collection problems. You will work closely with the technical lead to architect, deploy, and maintain multiple fast-turnaround capabilities to perform various highly-visible and high-priority data collection efforts.

You will strategically apply AI/ML best practices to extract, format, and expose in indexed search tools relevant content such as raw text, multimedia (audio, image, video, document), tabular (CSV, Parquet, Avro) or nested (JSON, JSONL, XML), and other structured/unstructured data types. You will provide data engineering support to include cleaning, modeling, and formatting data.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Must maintain active/current TS/SCI with a polygraph clearance.
• Demonstrated experience performing extract, transform, and load procedures.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing ETL workflows using Python, SQL, and NiFi to ingest and transform complex datasets.
• Experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages, as well as data formats.
• Deep experience with Python, and utilizing Python in a fast-paced environment with unknown data formats.
• Experience with AWS provisioning and cloud-based resource management, such as EC2 instances, writing and deploying Lambda functions, as well as creating and writing to S3.
• Experience deploying and managing data science environments in AWS and Azure.
• Demonstrated experience using Git Hub.
• DESIRED:
  Experience deploying AWS applications with AWS's Cloud Development Kit.
• DESIRED:
  Demonstrated experience with Elastic Search, Lucene, or AWS's Open Search

The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Armison Tech is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law.