Senior Data Scientist

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MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Data Scientist to join our team in Springfield, VA. This role is 100% on-site.

The Senior Data Scientist leads the integration and application of advanced data analytics to solve complex business challenges and enhance mission security. The contractor will serve as a subject matter expert (SME), responsible for the entire lifecycle of data analysis—from refining business requirements and developing sophisticated analytical models to provide strategic recommendations that improve organizational efficiency and mitigate insider threats. This role demands a blend of deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and the ability to lead, manage, and support critical operational and policy-related initiatives.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Advanced Analytics and Model Development: Architect, develop, and maintain advanced analytic models, visualizations, and tools to deter, detect, and mitigate insider threats.

• Apply expert knowledge of industry-standard data science principles to identify anomalous events and provide actionable intelligence.

• Strategic Business Analysis: Proactively collaborate with project requestors, senior stakeholders, and program managers to define, clarify, and refine complex business needs and strategic objectives. Utilize data-driven insights to recommend significant changes and process improvements.

• Process Improvement and Policy Operations: Lead, manage, and support business operations and policy development lifecycles. Serve as an SME for the development, review, coordination, promulgation, and compliance of enterprise-wide policies, including the maintenance of Self-Inspection Checklists and related documentation.

• Risk and Performance Analytics: Own the development and maintenance of sophisticated risk-scoring models and other data analytics tools. Drive the implementation and sustainment of data analysis platforms, ensuring system integrity by capturing and analyzing metrics on system errors, failures, and performance.

• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Translate complex quantitative and qualitative analysis into clear, compelling visuals, dashboards, and executive-level reports. Provide authoritative visual, technical, and editorial guidance, and confidently brief senior leadership on analytical findings, forecasts, and strategic recommendations.

• Data Governance and Integrity: Oversee the capture, maintenance, and accumulation of statistics, ensuring the accuracy of data related to timelines, product transfers between domains, and other key performance indicators.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years proven experience in integrating, developing, and maintaining analytic models, visualizations, and tools, preferably in a security or threat-detection context and a

• Master’s Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Business, or a related field. In lieu of a masters degree, 10+ years of experience. In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, 15+ years of experience

• Expert-level knowledge of data analytics and data science principles, with a demonstrated ability to apply them to identify anomalous events and create data-driven forecasts.

• Mastery of data visualization and dashboard development using data sets from various sources.

• Exceptional ability to transform complex data sets into compelling visuals, reports, and briefings for leadership.

• Direct experience supporting and maintaining risk-scoring models or similar predictive analytic systems.

• Proficiency in creating and editing visual content such as charts and graphs to represent data.

• Demonstrated coding experience to support writing scripts with tools such as but not limited to Java and Python. Demonstrated ability to use Share Point, Tableau, Redmine, and other systems/databases to manipulate and build data visualization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a leadership or mentorship role within a data analytics or business intelligence team.

• Familiarity with geospatial analysis, web development principles, or specific program leadership reporting structures

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI security clearance and be willing and able to obtain a polygraph.

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations.