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# Data Scientist, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Alexandria, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Big Data, Data Files, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Data Visualization, Database Queries, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Web Applications, Web Services, Data Processing, Flask (Web Framework), Grafana, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/data-scientist-senior-alexandria-va--6be2c9a9-8a21-4c7d-a279-6771ab395c20

## About the Role

Data Science, Cancer, Data Sets, Unstructured Data, Data Science, Structured Data, Leadership, Algorithms, Needs Assessment, Quantitative Analysis, * 5+ years of experience in data science, including performing quantitative analysis, developing visualizations, and processing complex data to create data-driven insights

 * Experience using Python to manipulate and analyze data
 * Experience using SQL to conduct complex database queries
 * Experience using data manipulation and extract, transform, and load (ETL) procedures
 * Experience with leveraging APIs to query systems
 * Experience with developing data visualizations, dashboards, or lightweight Web applications to communicate key insights
 * Experience with communicating information in oral or written formats to an audience with varying technical knowledge and expertise
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Analytics or STEM

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience developing dashboards using Grafana
 * Experience developing Web services or Web applications using Python and Flask or JavaScript
 * Experience using Apache Spark to aggregate and analyze large data sets from various sources
 * Experience working with AI and ML technologies and data systems
 * Experience applying supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms for clustering, classification, and dimensionality reduction
 * Knowledge of commercial Cloud services used by the IC
 * Master's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related technical field

## 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.