Data Scientist

Bethesda, MD

Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI and Polygraph Required

@Orchard is actively supporting a proposal expected to be awarded in Fall 2026 for a Maryland client in the Intelligence Sector. We are seeking individuals with the necessary skills, experience, and clearance to sign a letter of intent to join the team once the program is awarded. This is an exceptional opportunity to join one of our clients, a leader in the IC space with exceptional benefits and opportunities for advancement.

As the Data Scientist, your responsibilities will include.

• Driving data science effectiveness by evaluating analytical capabilities, conducting technique assessments, identifying methodology gaps, establishing performance metrics, and aligning with organizational business objectives.
• Leading continuous improvement initiatives through data process analysis, architectural enhancements, analytical workflow optimization, and capability enhancement roadmaps.
• Enhancing predictive modeling capabilities by designing implementation procedures, developing standardized approaches for different model types, establishing validation protocols, and coordinating cross-functional model deployment activities.
• Improving business intelligence through effective reporting templates, actionable data dashboards, real-time visualization mechanisms, and contextual insight distribution.
• Optimizing analytics tool usage by maximizing platform effectiveness, fine-tuning algorithms, synthesizing multi-source data, ensuring system integration, and recommending technical enhancements.
• Implementing data automation by identifying suitable processes, designing ETL workflows, developing code scripts, implementing automated analysis responses, and documenting procedures.
• Managing the data reporting lifecycle from collection to distribution, ensuring timely delivery, implementing feedback mechanisms, establishing archival procedures, and meeting compliance requirements.
• Fostering agile data science approaches through methodologies like analytics sprints, retrospectives, iterative development, and balancing innovation with governance requirements.
• Coordinating cross-functional data initiatives by serving as a liaison between teams, aligning analytics with organizational goals, facilitating knowledge sharing, and building stakeholder relationships.
• Leading data integration through architecture design, API implementation, data normalization, integration testing, and comprehensive documentation.
• Driving advanced analytics by developing collection strategies, implementing statistical techniques, creating insightful visualizations, designing KPIs, and leveraging data for strategic decision-making.

Your experience and qualifications will need to include.

• US Citizen with an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI and Polygraph.
• A Bachelor’s degree with at least 6 years or a Master’s degree with at least 4 years of experience within the Intelligence Community. 
• Experience possessing in-depth knowledge of: Data science toolkits, data analytics and statistical analysis, as well as data discovery, use, and exploitation within multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with in-depth knowledge of standard data science languages (SQL, R, Python, Julia).
• Experience understanding Data integration and data management fundamentals, and how to successfully adopt those for data science projects from development into production.
• Experience with understanding customer needs and visualizing data in the most effective way possible for a given project or study.
• Experience related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Experience with technical writing, ability to communicate complex data in simple, actionable ways.
• This role can be accommodated at several levels based on experience and qualifications, ranging from 4 to over 10 years of experience. Title and compensation will reflect the experience of each individual selected.

Compensation: As there are several potential levels for this skillset within the program, compensation can range between $120,000 and $225,000. All employees will receive a generous benefits package, including Health, Dental, Vision, 401K with immediate vesting, tuition reimbursement, and generous PTO.

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.