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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Hampton, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $77,500.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Cleansing, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Distributed Data Store, Fraud Prevention and Detection, R (Programming Language), Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Apache Hive, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, MySQL, NoSQL, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Apache Spark, Electronic Medical Records, SC Clearance, Plotly, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9264687/data-scientist

## About the Role

* 4+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
 * 4+ years of experience with statistical and general-purpose programming languages for data analysis
 * 4+ years of experience analyzing structured and unstructured data sources
 * Experience designing a data pipeline for structured and unstructured data sources
 * Experience developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources
 * Experience leading the development of solutions to complex problems
 * Ability to communicate succinctly at the strategic level while maintaining technical credibility under scrutiny
 * Secret clearance
 * Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, or SQL and NoSQL
 * Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL
 * Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2
 * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph

## 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.