CACI International Hiring For Sr. Data Scientist at Virginia Full Time

Sr. Data ScientistJob Category: ScienceTime Type: Full timeMinimum Clearance Required to Start: SecretEmployee Type: RegularPercentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%Type of Travel: Continental US

CACI’s EITaaS Program is a Department of the Air Force initiative, which includes the Air Force and Space Force. EITaaS will transform the Dept. of the Air Force IT services from an in-house, base-centric delivery model to an advanced enterprise service delivery model. CACI will provide an enhanced IT management system, IT storefront, enterprise help desk, local field services, and life cycle support for end-user devices.

CACI’s innovative approach to enterprise technology infuses contemporary technologies with industry best practices to deliver commercial-style services that will improve customer experience and productivity for the Dept. of the Air Force’s global workforce. CACI and its partners will equip Airmen and Guardians with state-of-the-art services and automated capabilities that enable access to the tools they need to perform their mission efficiently and effectively when they need it, where they need it.

What You’ll Get to Do:

Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Visualize, interpret, and report data findings. May create dynamic data reports.

Flexibility and adaptability are ways of life here on the EITaaS team, so if you are comfortable breaking out of the mold and have a passion for learning new technologies, while applying your existing experience, then this position may be exactly what you are looking for.

Although this is a high-pace environment, be assured you’d be joining a high-tech people-oriented team and overall community that’s just as flexible as we’re hoping you to be.

More About the Role:

• Develops custom solutions for specialized mission sets based on customer needs and requirements.
• Ability to innovate and stay up to date on cutting edge tools and technologies, creating new ways to protect data and communicate or secure information utilizing custom or open-source designs.
• Recommend experience in Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile development.

• Remain flexible in order to understand customers’ needs and able to perform rapid prototype development in order to field test prototypes and updates to current solutions.
• Resolves customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for data modifications or enhancements.

• Assists in the preparation of internal software/data design documentation.
• Employs best practices for design, development, testing and change control.
• Ensure data accuracy (within raw, reporting and findings).
• Works with and aids in improving well-structured data.
• Understands the structure and functionality of the COTS applications (e.g., Oracle, MS SQL)
• Writes interfaces and conversion routines leveraging the application programmatic interface (API).  Extends applications by using applicable application tools. 
• Responsible for maintaining knowledge of online analytical processing (OLAP) tools. 
• Develops data frameworks for data analysis to support user data discovery. 
• Designs and develops data models that optimize analytical reporting performance. 
• Develops data extraction, transformation, cleansing, and loading processes between transactional and analytical systems. 
• Builds reports, dashboards, and OLAP databases to support end-user reporting and information requirements. 
• Performs statistical analyses on data and predictive forecasting.
• Analyzes and interprets results using statistical techniques.
• Interpret trends or patterns in complex and data sets.
• Suggests improvements to data (raw, analytics, etc.) using natural language processing and machine learning tools. Documenting pros/cons and other Analysis of Alternative (AoA) criteria.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

Qualifications:

• US Citizenship required.
• Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be successfully in obtain to a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance and pass all relevant background checks for a security clearance. Active DoD clearance preferred, but not required.
• University Degree (BS), or equivalent years of related experience, and additionally 15+ years of related IT engineering experience required.
• Security+ CE Certification (or other IAT Level II or III Certification)
• 10+ years’ cumulative experience with Data Analysis and Data Analytic skills (such as MS Power BI, Tableau, Python).
• 10+ years’ cumulative experience with Data Modelling skills (such as Power BI service, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), XMLA).

• 7+ years’ cumulative experience with Data Model publication and Software Development Kits (SDKs) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) (such as MS .NET, MS Azure SDK, OpenAI SDK, Web API).
• 7+ years’ cumulative experience with customer interactions, including presenting, answering questions, proactively resolving issues.
• 7+ years’ cumulative experience with SQL code and implementing SQL code.
• 5+ years’ cumulative experience with Axonius – including extracting and analyzing data relating to Cybersecurity.
• 5+ years’ cumulative experience with systems administration in Linux environments (RHCE equivalence) or Windows Server environments.
• 5+ years’ cumulative experience with Agile/Kanban, Git/GitHub.
• 3+ years’ cumulative experience with VMWare (implementing, managing, configuring).
• 2+ years’ cumulative experience with securing systems by following STIGs, best practices, and government/compliance requirements (such as NIST 800-53, FISMA, FEDRAMP), and negotiating/working-with IA personnel to arrive at sensible and effective solutions.
• 2+ years’ cumulative experience with enhance data protection and compliance (such as OpenSSL, Keystores, Azure Key Vault, Cyphers).

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Some experience (1+ years’) with any or all of these products or technologies:  MS SQL, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Qualys, SCCM, BigFix, MDM solutions, GIT (again, nice to have, not required).
• Relevant Technical and/or Security Certifications (e.g. CISSP, CCNA, CCDA, CCNA-Security, etc.)
• Understands and intuits “why things work”, not just the ability to follow installation and configuration guides.

• Familiarity with common cybersecurity tools is greatly desired.
• Some experience (1+ years’) setup and integration with IIS, SQL Server

• The ability to collaborate with other Operations, Engineering and Training teams to ensure designs and new technology deployments include appropriate operations, maintenance and training support mechanisms to deliver a high degree of efficiency and optimal customer experience support for DAF requirements.
• Leadership experience within a DAF Communications Squadron or experience supporting the DAF’s worldwide IT infrastructure.

What We Can Offer You:

– We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.

– Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.

– We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.

– We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.

– For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.

Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.