Marathon TS is currently seeking a Data Scientist to join our team. The place of performance for this work is at MacDill AFB, near Tampa, FL, with the possibility of up to 10% travel.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities for this position include:-
- Communicate with client regularly regarding enterprise values and project direction.
- Find intersection between business value and achievable technical work.
- Articulate and translate business questions into technical solutions using available DoD data.
- Explore datasets to find meaningful entities and relationships.
- Create data ingestion and cleaning pipelines.
- Develop applications and effective visualizations to communicate insights.
- Serve as an ambassador for executive DoD leadership to sponsor data literacy growth across the enterprise.
Minimum Basic Requirements for Skills, Experience, and Credentials include:-
- US citizen with a Secret US government clearance. Applicants who are not US Citizens and who do not have a current and active Secret security clearance will not be considered for this role.
- Ability to work independently to recommend solutions to the client and as part of a team to accomplish tasks.
- Experience with functional programming (Python, R, Scala) and database languages (SQL).
- Ability to discern which statistical approaches are appropriate for different contexts.
- Experience communicating key findings with visualizations.
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications-
- Experience with cloud-based development platforms.
- Experience with large-scale data processing tools.
- Experience with data visualization tools.
- Ph.D. in a quantitative discipline (Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, etc.).
