Sr. Data Scientist - DTRA

Reston, VA 20190

Posted: 06/30/2025 Employment Type: 9+ Month Contract Job Category: Data Scientist Job Number: 27498 Workplace Type: On-site

Job Description

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team in support of a classified program supporting the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.


Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including using Python, NLP, and LLM implementation
  • 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
  • Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
  • Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
  • Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
  • Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
  • Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience in collaborating with MLOps and infrastructure engineers to ensure robust model deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
  • Experience supporting platform components such as document indexing or search, GPU workloads, and distributed storage, including Cloudera
  • Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL
  • Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL
  • Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2

Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI


Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.


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