Data Scientist

Acuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Data Scientist. The Client applies technical resources to accelerate the timely, reliable, and secure delivery of open source data, information, and insights. The Client requires developer support developing tailored solutions to tackle unique global collection problems. The work may be performed independently or within a team environment depending on the specific problem statement. Work will include developing Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based resources and the Client needs skills spanning many compute, storage, and networking services.

In return, Acuity Inc offers a great company culture with wonderful work/life balance and a robust compensation package which includes Health/Dental/Vision, up to $6K training & professional development benefit annually, 401K matching, corporate events/team-building and more!

Acuity was awarded "Best Places to Work" by the Washington Business Journal for over 8 years(2010 - 2014, 2015, 2017-2021, 2023) and "Top Workplaces" by Washington Post (2022, 2023). www.myacuity.com

What you’ll be doing: 

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Client’s technical lead to architect, deploy, and maintain multiple, fast-turnaround capabilities used to perform various highly-visible and high-priority collection efforts.
• Strategically apply AI/ML to extract, format, and expose in indexed search tools relevant content such as raw text, multimedia (audio, image, video, document), tabular (CSV, Parquet, Avro) or nested (JSON, JSONL, XML), and other structured /unstructured data types. Data is expected to be of varying formats, schemas, and structures.
• Provide Data Engineering support to include cleaning, modeling, and formatting data of unknown formats.
• Move data between different cloud storage environments for critical requests.
• Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure capabilities and deliverables meet defined requirements and tradecraft needs.
• Create and maintain collection capabilities and deliverables within the Client’s Amazon Web Services environment utilizing Client approved AWS services.
• Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
• Maintain all source code in Client’s GitHub repository.
• Document all source code, including how to execute the code.
• Perform operations and maintenance on the collection capabilities and deliverables to adapt to changes in collection target, technologies, data formats, and naming conventions.

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated experience with Python.
• Demonstrated experience with geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and deploying Lambda functions, creating and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with IAM policies.
• Demonstrated experience using GitHub.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated experience deploying AWS applications with AWS’s Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Ansible and Terraform are NOT a substitute for CDK.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Demonstrated experience building, programmatically working with and maintaining search engines such as ElasticSeach, Lucene, or AWS’s OpenSearch.
• Demonstrated experience creating, programmatically working with and maintaining SQL and NO-SQL databases.
• Demonstrated experience with other non-AWS cloud services such as, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure.
• Certification(s) o AWS DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SysOps Administrator.

Clearance Requirements:

• TS/SCI w/Poly

Acuity, Inc:  

Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative, and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work”, Washington Post’s “Top Workplace”, and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards. 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.