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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Databases, Data Cleansing, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Distributed Data Store, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Standard Sql, Text Mining, Unstructured Data, Large Language Models, Apache Spark
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/85562656/1

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
 * 5+ years of experience analyzing structured and unstructured data
 * 3+ years of experience with statistical and general-purpose programming languages for data analysis
 * Experience wrangling data from disparate databases and APIs for analysis
 * Experience developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources
 * Experience leading the development of solutions to complex problems
 * Experience with natural language processing, text mining, or machine learning techniques
 * TS/SCI clearancewith a polygraph
 * Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging Python and SQL
 * Experience with engineering AI solutions, including accessing Large Language Model (LLM) APIs, self-hosting LLMs, fine-tuning LLMs, or implementing Model Context Protocol
 * Experience developing production-quality machine learning models or pipelines
 * Experience with distributed data or computing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, or HPCC ECL
 * Experience with Python data science and visualization packages

## Description

As a data scientist, you're excited at the prospect of unlocking the secrets held by a data set, and you're fascinated by the possibilities presented by IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In an increasingly connected world, massive amounts of structured and unstructured data open new opportunities. As a data scientist at Booz Allen, you can help turn these complex data sets into useful information to solve global challenges. Across private and public sectors-from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence-we need you to help find the answers in the data.


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