Lead Data Scientist

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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Complex Systems Department (L644) is seeking a motivated, creative Data Scientist to apply their modeling, operational analysis, and applied research skills to bear on solving problems of critical national importance. MITRE’s diverse work program provides opportunities to apply your expertise and creative thinking in challenging domains such as national security, healthcare, and transportation. This position offers the opportunity to interact directly with government leaders in a fast-paced and dynamic atmosphere with the ability to make a difference and impact outcomes with solid analysis.

Our department uses an array of approaches from the fields of both data science and modeling & simulation to help our sponsors develop a deep, causal understanding of the dynamics of their problems and identify and evaluate potential interventions in rigorous, intuitive, and analytically defensible ways. Modeling approaches, when combined and grounded with data analysis, allow us to go beyond correlations and pattern identification in data and help us test and develop intuition, leading to successful actions taken by our sponsor more quickly and more defensibly. We specialize in building deployable tools that allow sponsors to interact directly with models to develop intuition and explore causality within their domains. Our interdisciplinary department thrives on having a large toolbox to support data- and model-driven decision making and we value people who can bring diverse perspectives. Our employees are expected to work on multiple projects, cross-pollinate good ideas across the government and continuously learn. We work to solve modeling and analytic problems in the public interest, in partnership with the government. We also actively conduct independent research in areas of interest to our government partners

Roles & Responsibilities:

To be successful you will:

• Provide relevant day-to-day tasking for one or more junior staff.
• Lead projects throughout their life cycle, including conceptualization, requirements definition, data procurement, development, integration, and socialization.
• Be passionate about applying data analytics to real world problems.
• Have an innate curiosity and interest in developing research questions and testing hypotheses with open ended tasking.
• Work with a spectrum of government sponsors to gain understanding of their challenges, evaluate possible solutions and conduct insightful, actionable analyses.
• Support the development and application of a variety of analytical models to sponsor challenges, with a willingness to adapt and learn.
• Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically Requires a minimum of 8 years of experience with a Bachelors degree or 6 years and a Masters degree or a PHD with 3 years of Experience or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading customer facing engagements emphasizing data analytics, systems engineering, geospatial analysis, network analysis, OSINT, and requirements analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to manipulate large datasets and perform calculations with at least one modern programming language like Python.
• Applied experience visualizing multi-dimensional data using tools like Tableau, ggplot2, Plotly, matplotlib, seaborn, or D3.js.
• Ability to apply, modify and formulate algorithms and processes to solve challenging problems.
• Demonstrated project leadership and program management experience of projects with >20 staff and a portfolio of work in range of $2-3M.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and DHS Suitability. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading or conducting research.
• Experience leading teams or work in the area of counter-UAS.
• Prior experience working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) government sponsors.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$155,200 - $194,000 - $232,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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