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Role: Senior Data Science Consultant

Location: Washington, DC

Education: M.A./M.S. Degree (Any Field or Major)

Years of Experience: 10+ years of general work experience (Any Field / Industry)

Clearance Level & Investigation: Current/Active TS with ability to obtain & hold TS SCI / TS SCI Caveats for duration of program

Citizenship: U.S.

DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce Qualifications: None

Required Certifications: Palantir Foundry Application Developer certification

Job Description:

Qualifications:

• Works on high-visibility or mission critical aspects of a given program.
• Performs all functional duties independently.
• May oversee the efforts of less senior staff and/or be responsible for the efforts of all staff assigned to a specific job.
• Supports analytical workflow enablement, sustainment, and scaling of data products across an enterprise.
• Utilizes enterprise data platform capabilities to support analytics, automation, and decisions.
• Supports configuration and use of Government-directed data platform capabilities to enable data analysis, monitoring, reporting, and automation.
• Requires an M.A. or M.S. Degree in any field or major.
• Must have 10+ years of general work experience in any field or industry.
• Must hold a current, active Top-Secret clearance and have ability to obtain/maintain a TS SCI / TS SCI Caveats for duration of program.
• Must be a current legal citizen of the United States.
• Must hold a Palantir Foundry Application Developer certification.

Responsibilities:

Mission Assurance Assessment Support:

• Provide Mission Assurance assessment support services to enable Customer to plan, coordinate, augment, analyze, & manage assessments conducted; provide assessment-related activities as supporting capability.
• Perform assessment process support, data collection and stewardship, analytical exploitation of assessment data, & integration of assessment outputs with Mission Analysis, Critical Asset Identification, and Risk Management activities.

Assessment Data Analysis and Advanced Analytics

• Support analysis & exploitation of assessment data to enable improved decision-making across enterprise; support Customer’s role as steward for Mission Assurance assessment data, ensuring assessment-related data collected, structured, governed, & analytically usable IAW Government direction & Mission Assurance data governance requirements.
• Collect, aggregate, normalize, & analyze assessment data, including data derived from DoW Assessments, USAF-specific assessment activities, & related stakeholder reports.
• Integrate & synthesize assessment data to identify trends, systemic vulnerabilities, recurring dependencies, cross-mission risk drivers, & enterprise-level patterns.
• Integrate assessment data with mission mapping, critical capability/asset identification, & criticality analysis outputs developed.
• Collect & analyze data from other related assessments / data sources (e.g., Joint, Service, infrastructure, cyber, resilience, operational assessments) to enrich Mission Assurance analysis & reduce redundant data collection.
• Develop & apply advanced analytical techniques, including artificial intelligence and machine learning methods, to extract insights from Assessment Reports & related stakeholder documentation.
• Support development of analytical products, dashboards, models, & decision-support artifacts derived from assessment data using Government-directed data platforms / analytical tools.
• Ensure traceability, data quality, & analytical transparency across assessment data sources / derived analytical products.

Mission Assurance Data Platform Enablement & Analytical Support:

• Provide data platform enablement & analytical support to ensure data, models, & analytical products developed are usable, scalable, maintainable, & decision relevant.
• Provide cross-cutting data workflow, analytics, & platform utilization support; execute data activities in direct support of mission analysis, assessment, risk management, monitoring, & governance activities.
• Use Government-directed enterprise data platforms and services.
• Support business process workflows executed for planning, coordination, governance, & decision-making; enable, sustain, & improve related workflow processes, coordination activities, & knowledge management practices implemented within Government-directed enterprise data platforms.
• Support management / execution of Mission Assurance data projects within Government-directed enterprise data platforms; support analytical workflow enablement, sustainment, & scaling of data products, analytics, & workflows that enable Mission Assurance execution across enterprise, including workflows supporting coordination, governance cycles, reporting, task tracking, & internal business processes.
• Perform data platform support within t enterprise data platform environment; requires proficiency in utilizing enterprise data platform capabilities to support analytics, automation, & decision support, consistent with capabilities available to other enterprise data platform users.

Analytical Support to Mission Assurance Activities

• Provide analytical & data workflow support to contract enterprise activities.
• Support analytical needs of Mission Analysis, Assessment Support, & Risk Management activities, including data preparation, transformation, modeling, & visualization.
• Support ad hoc & recurring analytical requests from Customer, DAF stakeholders, MAJCOM representatives, & DoW stakeholders.
• Support analytical workflow enablement & sustainment of dashboards, monitoring views, & decision-support products using Government-directed data platforms.
• Support implementation of analytical automation to reduce manual data handling & improve timeliness / consistency of products.