Senior Data Scientist (Secret Clearance) - Remote

Location

Remote

Job Type

Full-Time

Clearance Requirement

Secret Clearance (Top Secret Preferred)

U.S. Citizenship is Required.

Position Overview

Praescient Analytics is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Senior Data Scientist to provide enterprise-level analytical leadership, advanced statistical modeling, and machine learning oversight for the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) and Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) application development suites. In this role, you will define the overarching predictive analytics vision, establish rigorous machine learning workflows, and conceptualize advanced statistical models optimized for a secure cloud environment. Working without supervision on highly complex initiatives, you will lead the evolution of traditional reporting into modern, highly scalable, and secure predictive models within an AWS GovCloud environment. You will collaborate closely with principal data architects, data engineers, chief data officers, and federal program stakeholders, exercising wide latitude for independent judgment to ensure our nation's background investigation analytics frameworks are resilient, secure, and compliant with zero-trust mandates. Key Responsibilities: Advanced Statistical Analysis & Modeling: Formulate, experiment with, and articulate alternative statistical frameworks. Apply rigorous experimental design, hypothesis testing, and statistical analysis to massive federal datasets, validating results against strict requirements and security assumptions.

Machine Learning Engineering & Vision

Design, build, and deploy end-to-end machine learning pipelines (including predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and NLP), aligning model development life cycles with the Agile SAFe v6.0 roadmap.

Scalable Analytics & Cloud Optimization

Author the scripts and frameworks for modernizing legacy analytics systems into highly distributed, cloud-native...