Position Title: Statistician/Data Scientist
Location:  Springfield, VA
Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI

Description:

The Data Scientist’s job is to define, execute, and analyze the results of complex studies of collection system performance to increase understanding and improve the performance of the GEOINT collection architecture, in addition to supporting the adoption of new source capabilities and novel collection strategies across the GEOINT community.
 

Duties include:

• The contractor shall develop and apply methods to identify, collect, process, and analyze large volumes of data to build and enhance products, processes, and systems. They conduct data mining and retrieval, and apply statistical and mathematical analyses to identify trends, solve analytical problems, optimize performance, and gather intelligence. They visualize information using a range of tools (e.g., GIS, R), develop scripts and algorithms, create explanatory and predictive models, and conduct comparative analyses to address complex problems.
• Statistician/Data Scientist – Data Scientist Develop and apply quantitative and qualitative analytic methods to identify, collect, process, and analyze large data sets for specified purposes
• Develop and refine collection and analytic methods and collaborates with analysts to answer key intelligence questions
• Identify trends, solves analytical problems, optimizes performance, and develop results through appropriate data analysis techniques (e.g., data mining and retrieval)
• Visualize information, conducts comparative analysis, develops scripts, algorithms, or models, and develops report on results of data analysis
• The contractor shall apply tools and algorithms to identify trends and patterns in data. The contractor shall communicate with stakeholders and conduct research to develop an understanding of relevant programs and requirements. These analysts identify and collect data from various sources, evaluate the data to ensure that they meet analytic needs, and prepare the data for analysis. They also select, apply, and assess analytic models and techniques, and review and verify the results. They prepare reports and briefings and consult with stakeholders to communicate findings.
• The contractor shall excel at leading innovation and navigating ambiguity, be adept at building coalitions, sharing expertise, mentoring, and will exemplify a customer-service mindset.
• Document their knowledge of tools and languages, and associated proficiency levels, as well as focus on the impact of their work.
• Working as a team to develop and deliver enterprise-wide solutions for complex data challenges.
• Developing and applying methods by collecting, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data to build and enhance products, processes, and systems.
• Select techniques and methods to conduct data mining and retrieval and to apply statistical and mathematical analyses to identify trends, solve problems, and optimize performance.
• Visualize information, using a moderate range of tools, scripts and algorithms, create explanatory and predictive models, and conduct comparative and alternative analysis to address complex military and intelligence challenges.
• Apply statistical and mathematical analysis to identify trends, conflicts, opportunities, solve complex analytic problems, and optimize data interoperability.

Required Qualifications:

• U. S. Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Demonstrated proficiency conducting large-scale data analysis at all stages (i.e., understand business goals/strategies, formulate analytic approach, perform data extraction and exploration, and interpret/translate results) to find scalable solutions to complex problem-sets or close knowledge gaps.
• Data visualization expertise including the use of common software tools (e.g. Tableau, matplotlib, etc.) and the use of data visualizations for exploratory data analysis.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Python, R, Java, or a similar language, as applied to programming access and manipulation of data.
• Proven ability to communicate ongoing work and findings to leadership and others through written, visual, and spoken reports and briefings.
• Bachelor of Science degree in statistics, mathematics, image science, remote sensing, earth science, physical science or related technical or scientific field and 7-10 years of related experience. For every one (1) year of education required, two (2) years of relevant work experience is considered the equivalent. The limit for use of this equivalency measure is one degree.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven innovator and strategic problem solver.
• Ability to create and thrive in emerging and ambiguous environments.
• Be an effective collaborator in high performance, geographically distributed team environments.
• Evidence of impactful contributions to broader academic, industry, and research communities, such as code, presentations, and publications.
• Proven ability to create tradecraft and training documentation/CONOPS to support the mission.

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in Herndon, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.

Compass, Inc. is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (M/F/D)