Data Scientist

Iron EagleX is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our dynamic team in Crystal City, VA. This role creates and delivers innovative analytic solutions as a member of a fast-paced, multi-discipline team., * Implement structured, repeatable data analysis across large, disparate datasets to surface patterns, trends, anomalies, and relationships in support of mission and analytic needs.

• Develop, maintain, and improve analytic tooling such as queries, scripts, lightweight services, and reusable code components to automate recurring workflows and enable rapid-turn analysis.

• Build and enhance interactive analytic dashboards and lightweight GUIs, such as Streamlit applications, that support data exploration, linkage review, analyst workflows, and generation of structured outputs.

• Create analyst-ready products, including tables, visualizations, summaries, briefings, and structured exports, that translate technical findings into clear, decision-oriented insights.

• Work with analysts, engineers, and technical staff to convert ad hoc analyses into reusable pipelines, standardized methodologies, documented workflows, and maintainable analytic capabilities.

• Support the integration, testing, and refinement of analytic methods in operational environments, ensuring outputs are reliable, reproducible, and usable by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong Python skills for building practical analytic solutions, including data processing, automation, visualization, and reproducible scripts or notebooks using libraries such as pandas and NumPy.

• Strong SQL and hands-on experience working directly with large datasets in modern data platforms such as Trino, PostgreSQL, Hive, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch; distributed query experience is a plus.

• Experience designing and implementing repeatable analytic workflows, including source triage, data profiling, quality checks, transformation logic, documentation, and reusable code patterns.

• Practical experience developing analytic methods for entity resolution, relationship discovery, graph and relational analysis, including implementation of scoring, thresholds, validation checks, and measures of analytic confidence.

• Experience integrating structured, semi-structured, and text-based data, including extracting key fields and signals, normalizing data across sources, and combining schemas to support downstream analysis and tooling.

• Ability to translate technical analysis into usable outputs for analysts and decision-makers, including clear visualizations, concise analytic narratives, dashboards, and structured deliverables.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Familiarity with deploying applications in Dockerized environments and utilizing CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable, secure, and maintainable software delivery.

• Familiarity with Git best practices, including branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, merge conflict resolution, and maintaining clean, well-documented repositories.

• Experience integrating React-based frontends with RESTful APIs and Python-based backend services.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Clearance: Current TS/SCI Clearance with current or willingness to obtain CI polygraph

• Experience: 8+ years of related experience

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Advanced degrees are a plus., Years of Experience

8 + years of related experience

• may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree Certification

• Role requirements: This position is onsite in Crystal City, VA and requires travel for 60-90 days to CONUS sites each year.

• Due to US Government Contract Requirements, only US Citizens are eligible for this role

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, competitive pay and paid time off

• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace, The likely salary range for this position is $154,700 - $209,300. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Iron EagleX, a GDIT company, contributes to the U.S. government's mission of protecting our nation and enables our customers to make quicker decisions and act faster than our adversaries., Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure., Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments., We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across over 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, cloud, cyber and application development. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.