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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/e484afc6-8545-4b10-a7cb-23228e7d8272

## 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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