Job Title: Data Scientist – Mid

Job Location: Quantico, VA

SUMMARY

Cherokee Preting is seeking a Data Scientist to support the identification, assessment, and disruption of threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). The Data Scientist will facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services and develop cyber capabilitiesand processes that illuminate threats, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Includes the following:

• Develop and operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Develop, produce,and maintain Directorate metrics.
• Work with functional managers and other data scientists to understand the baselines, norms, and pain points of the data.
• Maintain monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) maintaining current numbers and provide suggestions for future KPI’s.
• Produce and disseminate monthly reports to include trends, numbers, and operational thresholds.
• Develop and manage internal tools for data discovery, visualization and insight for internal users.
• Provide detailedanalysis of existingschemas, common fields,unique fields, schema mapping and discovering data formatting differences with agency data.
• Provide data cleanup and define field terms, identifyconflicts, and providerecommendations for cleanupsolutions to align with shared, interagency understandings.
• Identify and collect data from varioussources, evaluate the data to ensure that they meet analytic needs,and prepare the data for analysis.
• Performs statistical analysis, applies data mining techniques, and builds high quality prediction systems.
• Coordinate, collaborate, and engage with customers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with DCSA mission management, agency components, and data professionals using data which supports alignment CI resources to strategy, performance reporting, and program planning.
• Communicate with stakeholders and conduct researchto develop an understanding of relevant programsand requirements.
• Inform seniorlevel decision-making using data-driven analysis, and supports alignmentof resources to strategy.
• Participate in interviewing for data roles and data capability development at Ad Hoc.
• Coordinate with other elementswithin DCSA CI and DCSA, as needed.
• Recommend and advise senior leaders on the development of new techniques.
• Select, apply, and assess analytic models and techniques, and review and verify the results. Analyze large and complex data sets and communicate results and findingsto senior leadersand executives, including through the use of visualizations.
• Recommend and develop new data analysistechniques for CI and InsiderThreat Directorate.
• Support Directorate data migration efforts.
• Support data migration efforts for the CI and Insider Threat Directorate.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

No supervisory/management authority.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Desired to have a minimum 8 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Able to conduct data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions.
• Proactively retrieves information from various sources, analyzes it for better understanding about the data set, and builds artificial intelligence tools that automate certain processes.
• Skilled at creating various ML-based tools or processes, such as recommendation engines or automated lead scoring systems.
• Performs statistical analysis, applies data mining techniques, and builds high quality prediction systems.
• Skilled in data visualization and use of graphicalapplications, including MicrosoftOffice (Power BI) and Tableau;major data sciencelanguages, such as R and Python;managing and mergingof disparate data sources, preferably through R, Python,or SQL; statistical analysis; and data mining algorithms.
• Prior experience with large data Multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predictive analytics.
• Must have an active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is primarily performed in a climate-controlled office environment.

Please Note : This position is pending a contract award. If you are interested in a future with Cherokee Federal, APPLY TODAY! Although this is not an approved position, we are accepting applications for future or anticipated needs.

TEMPORARY NOTE :

Cherokee Federal has suspended it’s COVID mandate. However, it’s important to note that Cherokee Federal employees are included as covered employees in U.S. Presidential Executive Order 14042, which mandates COVID vaccines for federal contractors. Executive Order 14042 is currently not subject to enforcement by the Federal government. Therefore, Cherokee Federal has suspended application of the mandate and continues to monitor the government’s guidance on administration of any vaccine requirement.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

Cherokee Federal is a division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, the economic engine of Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. As a trusted partner, the Cherokee Federal team of companies manages nearly 2,000 projects of all sizes across the construction, engineering and manufacturing and mission solutions portfolios – ranging from advanced data analytics and telehealth to cybersecurity, cloud and logistics.

Since 2012, our team of companies has won $6 billion in government contracts and completed more than 5,300 federal missions. Our 3,600+ employees work in 20+ countries, 50 states and 2 U.S. territories.

Why Cherokee Federal? Visit cherokee-federal.com to learn why you should join our team!

COMPLIANCE:

Cherokee Federal is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, union affiliation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations governing all aspects of the relationship between the Company and its employees, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies. The policies and principles of EEO also apply to the selection and treatment of independent contractors, personnel working on our premises who are employed by temporary agencies and any other persons or firms doing business for or with the Company.

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