Senior Data Scientist - BlueVoyant Government Solutions Location: Hybrid in the Washington, DC Metro Area US Citizenship Required, US government clearance desired
The Organization We are a high growth technology company with a focus on protecting critical national security and commercial supply chains. We leverage diverse datasets and collection techniques to proactively illuminate supply chains and identify areas of risk without requiring data inputs from our clients. Our unique outside-in approach depends on continuous innovation in building, developing, and exploiting a vast data ecosystem.
Our technology team is looking for a new member to help advance the state of the art in our field. Your primary job would be to lead projects to conduct research, analysis, and data science in support of our core integrated data solution. You will interact with senior members of government organizations to form solutions that will allow them to use our offerings to defend the supply chains of the USA. You will be a cool head under pressure when you work closely with an experienced interdisciplinary team of data scientists and subject matter experts to tackle vital industrial security challenges.
Primary Responsibilities
Serve as a primary client contact on all phases of analytic projects from problem definition through presentation, appropriately managing client expectations throughout the project.
Confidently scope, design and lead innovative supply chain risk projects with our customers and successfully represent the work of our team in person around Washington DC.
Collaborate with the tech and operation teams to lead efforts to build a scalable, data science solution using Azure/AWS and other commercial tools (e.g., DataBricks/Retool)
Scale these solutions across new datasets to meet new analytic and client requirements and maintain these advances in our codebase
Act as a senior resource to your colleagues to assist with activities like the selection and execution of ML/AI/NLP solutions to tasks and help the team grow in capability
Qualifications
Five or more years of experience in data modeling, classification/clustering, and statistical analysis required.
Confidence to command the attention of any room, from the office, to the Pentagon
Strong hands-on programming skills with expertise in multiple implementation languages such as Python and SQL along with experience in delivery technologies
Familiarity with large-scale, big data platforms including a variety of structured (Postgres, MySQL) and unstructured (Elastic, Kafka, Hadoop, GCS) data storage/retrieval technologies.
Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
Experience in administering software development platforms, e.g., Github, Gitlab
Experience with Cloud environments
Experience with agile methodologies
MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics or relevant field experience.
Care for the quality of your work and the wellbeing of those around you
US Citizenship required, US government clearance desired
About BlueVoyant
At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cyber security requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, works as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem. Accuracy! Actionability! Timeliness! Scalability!
Led by CEO, Jim Rosenthal, BlueVoyant’s highly skilled team includes former government cyber officials with extensive frontline experience in responding to advanced cyber threats on behalf of the National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unit 8200, and GCHQ, together with private sector experts. BlueVoyant services utilize large real-time datasets with industry leading analytics and technologies.
Founded in 2017 by Fortune 500 executives, including Executive Chairman, Tom Glocer, and former Government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Maryland, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, London, Budapest, and Latin America.
All employees must be authorized to work in the United States. BlueVoyant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, BlueVoyant complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Disclaimer: Please note that pursuant to contractual requirements and applicable law, in order for employees to perform work on some of the company’s federal contracts, U.S. citizenship is required. Accordingly, an employee’s ability to perform work on such contracts is contingent upon the company’s verification of the employee’s citizenship status. Furthermore, individuals may be subject to additional background checks and fingerprinting.
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