KBR's National Security Solutions team is looking to solve the problem of providing high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities, specifically in the area of data-driven decision analysis products.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in big data analytics
- Hands-on experience with object-oriented and functional languages (e.g., Python, R, C++, C, Java, Scala, etc.)
- Experience working with teams in the development and interpretation of the results of analytic products with DoD specific data types
- Competency in key concepts from software engineering, computer programming, statistical analysis, data mining algorithms, machine learning, and modeling
- Experience in the installation, configuration, and use of big data infrastructure (Spark, Trino, Hadoop, Hive, Neo4J, JanusGraph, HBase, MS SQL Server with Polybase, VMWare as examples)
- Experience using scripting languages (Python and R) to process, analyze and visualize data
- Experience using notebooks (Jupyter Notebooks and RMarkdown) to create reproducible and explainable products
Responsibilities
- Enabling the development of data-driven decision analysis products through the innovative application of novel methods from data science, machine learning, and operations research
- Providing analytic consulting services, supporting analytic workflow and product development and testing, promoting the user adoption of methods and best practices from data science
- Conducting applied methods projects, and supporting the creation of analysis-ready data
- Running and operating CHEETAS (and other tools); demonstrating these tools to stakeholders & VIPs; conveying analysis results
- Adapting internally-developed tools, notebooks and reports to meet emerging needs; gathering use cases, requirements, gaps and needs from stakeholders
- Performing impromptu hands-on training sessions with end users and potentially troubleshooting problems from within closed networks without internet access
- Designing, developing, enhancing, reengineering or integrating software applications to improve the quality of data outputs available for end users
Other
- US Citizens only
- Active or current Secret Clearance required - Top Secret Clearance preferred
- Degree in operations research, engineering, applied math, statistics, computer science or information technology with preferred 15+ years of experience within DoD
- Travel of 25% with potential surge to 50% to support end users located at various DoD ranges & labs located across the US
- Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with customers and teammates
