Job description
What You’ll Get to Do
As a CACI-Wexford Data Scientist, you will support the DoD National Security
Innovation Network (NSIN) mission to bring together defense, academia, and
industry to solve some of the most challenging and complex national security
problems. You will provide large-scale advanced analytics support; collecting,
parsing, transforming, and integrating relevant data in support of projects; and
providing operational, systems, and data analysis to support NSIN in its mission to
provide tailored technology integrated services for its mission partners for the
purpose of countering and deterring current and emerging global threats.
More About the Role
As a CACI-Wexford Data Scientist, you will embed with NSIN and its mission partners and tenant organizations, sometimes potentially in hostile, austere locations, providing expert technical data science expertise that enables the effective integration of a variety of data and intelligence information with innovative technology into seamless solutions that help shape both current and future DoD mission requirements.
You will collaborate across the DoD, commercial industry, and academic space to identify and develop technology and capability enhancements that are informed by close collaboration and coordination with the labs, universities, agencies, and industry partners who are on the cutting edge of research and Development.
You will embed with and support units and organizations at all echelons, and work with communities of interest as they deal directly with a wide variety of emerging threats and conduct operations to mitigate those threats. You will apply your expertise to provide large-scale advanced analytics support; collecting, parsing, transforming, and integrating relevant data in support of a variety of projects; and provide operational, systems, and data analysis that supports strategic and operational requests to assist decision makers with risk assessments, prioritization, and/or to provide leadership with quantitative organizational assessments to support functional evaluations. You will develop, document, implement, and automate ETL (extract transform load) processes using SQL® and other analytical programming tools that most efficiently import structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from new and/or dynamic data sources, ensuring data validity, reliability, and availability to users. You will collaborate with team members to ensure retrieval of available information pertinent to current work projects and ensure timely dissemination of counter asymmetric threat products.
You will collaborate and coordinate on efforts to improve support for analytic projects, threat identification, and threat characterization by providing highly specialized data science expertise to DoD, NSIN and its mission partners that helps identify new data sources, methods and capabilities that will improve access to information and integrate mission expertise and innovative technologies and capabilities that will drive process improvements and efficiencies, ultimately improving operational effectiveness and reducing threat levels for the DoD, NSIN and its mission partners.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications
- Current Top Secret/SCI Clearance
- Bachelor's degree and more than three years of experience, or an Associate's degree and seven years of experience, or more than 10 years of relevant work experience.
- Familiarization with SQL processes and ability to conduct ETL processing in an SQL database.
- Significant experience programming in at least one other programming language (Python, R,)
- You must possess the ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
- You will be able to provide daily feedback to the team lead, intelligence analysts, and supported unit on product development.
- Possess strong research, analytical, and writing skills
- Be capable of effectively operating as a member of an analytical team from a remote location in support of DoD and NSIN requirements
These Qualifications Would Be Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as: Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics.
- Experience with data wrangling, web scrapping, and pulling data from API’s.
- Knowledge of how to utilize business intelligence tools and processes that improve readability of and access to data, through the creation of stored/scheduled processes and effective visualization.
- Ability to create complex programs that ingest, parse, clean, transform, and analyze large (millions of records) datasets; and to deliver analytical results through written and oral presentations.
- Experience interacting with “big data” systems such as Hadoop or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Experience building and managing data workflows.
- Familiarity with the process of building and maintaining dashboards (e.g., Plotly or Tableau)
- Experience and in-depth knowledge of the DOD technology maturation model, Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), and Defense Acquisition processes.
- Prior experience as an all-source intelligence analyst, business analysts, or ORSA
- Prior experience with Counter Threat mitigation operations.
What We Can Offer
- CACI-Wexford manages the Special Operations and Asymmetric Solutions Operating Group within CACI’s Operations Support and Services Sector. As the premier provider of Special Operations capabilities; Tactical Advisory and Embedded Support; intelligence Applications to Law Enforcement; security cooperation and OCONUS Training Support Delivery for the company, CACI-Wexford has a reputation for uncompromising standards of quality in its people and its performance. Joining the CACI-Wexford team is a mark of excellence for those employees who complete our rigorous Mission Focused Staffing process.
- CACI-Wexford’s mission places its personnel against the government’s most critical emerging challenges. Work with us, and you’ll be working with a team making a difference across the globe.
- CACI-Wexford offers competitive benefits as well as numerous learning and development opportunities.
Additional Information About This Role
- This role may be at other locations.
As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.
