Senior Data Scientist

Description
As the largest provider of IT services, Leidos develops and sustains large data and technology infrastructures and integrates complex law enforcement IT system for several US federal agencies. At Leidos we offer engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals and growth. This role would be serving a federal law enforcement agency in Huntsville, Alabama.

The candidate possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments. Plans and leads major technology assignments. Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success. Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.

Member of an Agile Team that supports the development of cutting-edge Data Discovery capabilities and Multi-INT analytics, harnessing the power of AI/ML solutions for Pattern mining, Entity, Graph, Text, Audio, and Vision analytics with API-driven architectures.

Primary Responsibilities:
oResponsible for utilizing big data technologies and knowledge of data science models to analyze large amounts of data and create valuable insights.
oDuties include:
ofinding and designing new approaches to handling, analyzing, and using large volumes of data sets;
oexploring fundamental issues with data handling, search, and retention; solving complex data and storage issues;
odesigning new software coding to improve data search processes;
odesigning, testing and validating the quality of the data and data processes;
oanalyzing and reporting results with actionable recommendations.

Basic Qualifications:
oBachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, other related discipline, or equivalent experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
o8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
oStrong communication skills
oUS Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:
oExperience in Entity Resolution, developing and implementing methods to identify and link records across different data sources that represent the same real-world entity (e.g., person, organization, product).
oExperience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) models for tasks like text classification, sentiment analysis, and entity recognition.
oExperience with Natural Language Generation (NLG) models for tasks like text summarization.
oDatabricks, Spark, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Python, Scala, CoreNLP, and Transformer foundational models
oDOD Top Secret Clearance is required.

Original Posting Date: 2024-08-26While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
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