This is an exciting opportunity to join us as a Data Scientist to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on high-priority mission. The work is operational, mission-driven, and grounded in real-world impact to inform planning, targeting, and execution. Across the USSOUTHCOM AOR, transnational criminal organizations adapt quickly, shifting routes, methods, and infrastructure. Coca cultivation and production regions change. Networks evolve. The data is massive, fragmented, and imperfect. You will be sought to bring order to that complexity. Taking large, diverse datasets and building analytic processes that expose patterns, relationships, and behaviors others can't see. You'll design workflows that can be repeated, trusted, and scaled.
This is a senior, independent role. You will lead analytic efforts with minimal direction, applying experience, judgment, and rigor to every product. Ensuring analytic standards are met, assumptions are clear, and conclusions are defensible aligned with ICD 203 and ICD 206. Collaborating across NGA and Intelligence Community partners, you'll help integrate perspectives and strengthen collective understanding. Advising government leadership on analytic methodologies, processes, and technologies, while mentoring others and setting the standards for quality and relevance. The mission will keep moving, network will adapt, patterns will shift, and new questions will emerge. What won't change is the need for intelligence that is trusted, actionable, and timely. If you want to be a part of delivering that clarity, join XTS today!
Requirements- Current active Top Secret / SCI clearance and willingness to obtain CI poly
- You have achieved the accomplishment of a Master's degree + 5 years / Bachelor's degree + 7 years / Associate's degree + 8 years / 10 + years of relevant experience.
- You have robust proficiency in Python in order to automate and create solutions that scale, adapt, and withstand mission demands.
- You have gained strong expertise in building processes around large datasets to support in designing repeatable methods that extract real discoveries from complexity.
- You have a strong skillset in operational visualization in order to make discoveries and present them through clear, intuitive visualizations that team can use immediately in daily operations.
- Experience with tools such as ArcGIS, Tableau, SPSS, SAS, Excel, or similar to query, aggregate and optimize large datasets.
Nice to Have- Experience with Activity-Based Intelligence (ABI), to understand behavior, patterns, and relationships over time, not just static snapshots. This approach allows analysis to anticipate change rather than simply describe it.
If you're ready to apply your intelligence background and technical expertise to problems of national importance, ensuring NGA's mission is carried out with precision, speed, and impact, send your resume directly to Lanchi Lai at [email protected]
