Data Scientist - Intelligence Support (TS/SCI)

Xcellent Technology

$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Current active Top Secret / SCI clearance.
  • Master's Degree + 5 years or Bachelor's Degree + 7 years or 10+ years of relevant experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Python for building, testing, and deploying scalable solutions.
  • Ability to translate analytical findings into operational visualizations and workflows.
  • Skillful in identifying trends, anomalies, and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Design processes that scale for data exploration and analysis.
  • Develop Python-driven solutions to exploit large, complex datasets.
  • Integrate findings into mission workflows and visualizations to support decision-making.
  • Collaborate closely with analysts and technical experts on data integration.
  • Manage multiple projects across various stages of development.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to directly support mission-critical projects at the NGA.
  • Engage in meaningful work that impacts operational success.
  • Work in a collaborative environment with technical experts.
  • Chance to lead innovative data solutions and processes.
Full Job Description
Data rarely arrives neatly packaged. Often it is messy, incomplete, or spread across multiple repositories. Yet within that complexity lie the insights that can shape real mission outcomes.

This is a chance to join us in supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as a Senior Data Scientist and directly support analysts and operators, ensuring what you discover within those data can be understood, trusted, and applied in real time. You'll design processes that scale, develop Python-driven solutions to explore and exploit data, and deliver outputs that integrate seamlessly into mission workflows. Collaboration will be critical in your role, as you will work closely with analysts and technical experts to integrate your discoveries into workflows and visualizations that support decision-making. You'll also manage multiple projects across different stages, ensuring that exploratory analyses, operational deployments, and process improvements all progress efficiently. If you thrive in complexity, embrace responsibility, and find satisfaction in work that has a clear and meaningful impact on mission success, join XTS today!

Requirements
  • Current active Top Secret / SCI clearance.
  • You have achieved a Master's Degree + 5 years / Bachelor's + 7 years / 10+ years of relevant experience.
  • You have gained strong proficiency in Python in order to build, test, and deploy scalable solutions across large and complex datasets.
  • You have high talent in translating analytical findings into operational visualizations and workflows for insights to be understandable, consumable, and immediately useable by analysts.
  • You have the strong ability in identifying trends, anomalies, and actionable insights in order to detect patterns that are operationally meaningful is critical to influencing mission outcomes.


Highly Preferred
  • Experience with tools such as JEMA, Brewlytics, or ArcGIS, Model Builder, or prior GEOINT / NGA experience.

Step into a role where your analysis doesn't just inform, it drives action. If you're ready to uncover what others overlook and deliver insights that matter, send your resume directly to Lanchi Lai, ([email protected]).

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