Data Scientist

Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN

Security Clearance: ALL Candidates MUST currently Possess an Active TS/SCI w/FS polygraph

Time Type: Part-Time, Daytime Schedule – 100% onsite

Close Date: 8/7/25

Travel: Yes - Travel is anticipated for this contract upon government approval for the following categories:

Yes - Temporary Duty (TDY) travel is anticipated within the Continental United States (CONUS).

Yes - TDY travel is anticipated outside the Continental United States (OCONUS).

Salary Range: $150k to $190k - The pay range for this job level is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Company Overview:

NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security, Information Management and Systems Integration. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.

NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. Visit our company website at www.novelapplications.com to review and apply for our current openings.

Job Description

NAOVI has a career opening for a P/T Data Scientist for the following task:

Required Technologies/Tools

• Demonstrated experience collaborating across the US Intelligence Community (USIC) to identify and close gaps in complex intelligence problems, with a strong ability to devise data collection and analysis strategies.
• Demonstrated experience supporting SIGINT collection, analysis, and operations.
• Demonstrated experience with SQL scripting and querying.
• Demonstrated experience with Elastic Query Language and Kibana dashboards.
• Demonstrated experience developing systems, processes, or tools with a strong ability to analyze and exploit complex data sets.
• Demonstrated experience in advanced cyber operations to include knowledge of internet protocols, IP addressing, and use of virtual machines and emulators.

Desired Technologies/Tools

• Demonstrated experience with SIGINT and agency collection.
• Demonstrated experience with agency knowledge management databases and repositories, and tools with a strong understanding of IC knowledge management databases and repositories.
• Demonstrated experience working with agency supporting operational programs and writing to agency standards.
• Demonstrated experience performing geospatial analysis for critical high-tempo missions.
• Demonstrated experience with pattern of life, link analysis, and deep dive SIGINT and geospatial data forensics, with a strong ability to analyze and exploit complex data sets.
• Demonstrated experience providing sophisticated briefings that clearly and concisely convey highly technical analytic projects.
• Demonstrated experience briefing liaison partners on highly technical information.
• Demonstrated experience working with commercial vendors to integrate and provide workforce access to commercial systems on government networks.
• Demonstrated experience creating and distributing minutes or after-action items, with experience providing sophisticated briefings that clearly and concisely convey highly technical analytic projects.
• Demonstrated experience in the agency’s space, with specific systems, processes, policies, and possessing supporting knowledge of operations.
• Demonstrated experience using critical thinking skills to innovate and resolve issues.

Active Relevant Certifications

Elastic Data Analyst certification, Etc.

Other Relevant Technologies/Tools

• Experience engaging with agency to determine the nature of requirement or analytic problem, evaluate options, and offer Information Technology (IT)-based recommendations and options.
• Experience advising agency on IT and data science methods and data needed or available to satisfy the requirement.
• Experience developing IT and data science solutions to enable the exploitation of databases and files; devising data collection and strategies.
• Experience identifying potential additional data sources and automating collection processes.
• Experience integrating, analyzing, evaluating, and assessing quantitative data (using statistical software, computer models, geospatial models, software languages, mathematical models, machine learning) to contribute to or develop IT and data science solutions to requirements (software tools, analytic models, or reports).
• Experience conducting statistical, mathematical, geospatial or data-mining analysis in partnership with other colleagues.
• Experience anticipating and projecting a wide range of possible outcomes using scenario and alternative analyses, machine learning, and agent based modeling or other advanced analytic techniques.
• Experience identifying, using, or developing a wide range of methodologies and analytic tools to address existing or potential problems and collection strategies.
• Experience preparing, and communicating a wide range of strategic, highly complex graphics, computational models or tools, or written and oral assessments.
• Experience leveraging multiple data management tools to organize relevant information and make decisions.