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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** J5 Consulting
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Data Analysis, Computing Platforms, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Parallel Computation, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usf22f801c7e97ade440917c0dd319152f

## About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Data Scientist to support mission-critical intelligence initiatives by analyzing large-scale structured and unstructured data, developing data models, and performing advanced analytics in clustered computing environments. The ideal candidate will have experience with ECL, HPCC, Python, C, and SQL, and will leverage these technologies to produce mission-relevant analytic products that support customer objectives in a fast-paced Intelligence Community environment.
Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

 * Demonstrated experience with ECL and HPCC (5 years minimum in ECL)
 * Demonstrated experience using analytic techniques and tools performing technical targeting analytic support for this Sponsor across a spectrum of mission spaces to include applying analytic judgement to data presented.
 * Demonstrated experience manipulating high-volume structured and unstructured data to perform analysis and generate sound mission relevant analytic reporting/products.
 * Demonstrated experience using computer languages (e.g., Python, C, SQL) to perform large scale parallel processing of the sponsors data. These languages complement ECL.
 * Demonstrated experience performing large scale parallel processing of data, and developing, validating, and using methodologies to support analytic requirements in Clustered Computing environments.
 * Demonstrated experience with data modeling.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

 * Educational or practical experience in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) field.



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