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# Sr Data Scientist- TS/SCI Poly

- **Company:** TALENTOPS LLC
- **Location:** Chantilly, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $10,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Apache Lucene, Computer Programming, Information Engineering, DevOps, Digital Architecture, Elasticsearch, Github, Identity and Access Management, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, NoSQL, Cloud Services, Ansible, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Unstructured Data, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Parquet, AWS Cdk, Data Processing, Google Cloud, AWS Lambda, Avro, Data Analytics, Functional Programming, Terraform, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9181383/sr-data-scientist-tssci-poly

## About the Role

* Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
 * Demonstrated professional experience with Python.
 * Experience with geospatial software, programming packages, and geospatial data formats.
 * Hands-on experience creating and managing AWS resources, including:
 + EC2
 + AWS Lambda
 + Amazon S3
 + IAM policies and permissions
 * Experience using GitHub for source code management.

Desired Qualifications

 * Experience deploying AWS applications using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
AWS CDK experience is specifically desired; Ansible and Terraform are not considered substitutes.

 * Experience building and deploying containerized applications.
 * Experience developing, integrating with, or maintaining search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Apache Lucene, or Amazon OpenSearch.
 * Experience creating and programmatically working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
 * Experience with additional cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
 * AWS certifications such as:
 + AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
 + AWS Certified Solutions Architect
 + AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex data problems and can move quickly from an evolving requirement to a functional technical solution. The right candidate will be comfortable working with unfamiliar datasets, applying AI/ML where appropriate, and developing scalable cloud-based solutions in a fast-paced mission environment.

If you have a strong background in Python, AWS, data engineering, AI/ML, and geospatial data and hold an active TS/SCI with Polygraph, we'd love to connect.

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to support highly visible and mission-critical data collection and analysis efforts in Chantilly, VA. This role will focus on developing tailored solutions that accelerate the secure, reliable, and timely delivery of open-source data, information, and insights.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of Python development, AI/ML, data engineering, AWS, and geospatial experience and be comfortable working with complex datasets that vary widely in format, structure, and schema.

What You'll Do

 * Work closely with technical leadership to architect, develop, deploy, and maintain fast-turnaround capabilities supporting high-priority collection efforts.
 * Strategically apply AI/ML techniques to extract, process, format, analyze, and expose relevant content through indexed search tools.
 * Work with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data, including raw text, audio, images, video, documents, CSV, Parquet, Avro, JSON, JSONL, XML, and other evolving data formats.
 * Provide data engineering support, including cleaning, transforming, modeling, and formatting data from known and unknown sources.
 * Develop solutions for processing and analyzing geospatial data.
 * Move data between cloud storage environments in support of critical requirements.
 * Create and maintain capabilities within an AWS environment using approved cloud services.
 * Build and manage AWS resources, including EC2, Lambda, S3, and IAM.
 * Validate collected and processed data to ensure it meets required formats and quality standards.
 * Collaborate with technical teams, mission partners, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions meet defined requirements.
 * Maintain source code within GitHub and provide clear documentation for code, deployment, and execution.
 * Perform ongoing operations and maintenance to adapt solutions to changing technologies, collection targets, data formats, schemas, and naming conventions., This is an excellent opportunity for a Full Stack Software Developer with strong cloud, data analytics, and application development experience to support high-impact mission work. The selected candidate will contribute to modern, scalable, and secure software solutions that improve data processing, analytics, search, automation, and enterprise digital architecture across a mission-critical environment.