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# data scientist

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Meade, MD, United States
- **Salary:** $77,600.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Big Data, Linux, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Parsing, Unstructured Data, Modeling and Simulation
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0bba2326-1bdc-4546-9494-cbc3672650d9

## About the Role

* 1+ years of experience in statistics, operations research, or advanced mathematics
 * Experience with R or Python
 * Experience using scientific met hods to inform qualitative and quantitative analyses
 * Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
 * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
 * HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience with optimization, modeling and simulation, prediction, estimation, decision analysis, or engineering management
 * Experience analyzing large-scale datasets
 * Experience with data gathering, cleansing, and parsing
 * Experience developing and applying optimization and simulation models
 * Ability to work in Windows and Linux OS environments
 * Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or Data Science

## 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 artifi cia l 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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