Sr Data Scientist

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Plans and leads major technology assignments.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments. May supervise others.
• Collaborate with Counter terrorism investigators, analysts, and professional staff, often directly engaging non-technical personnel to understand functional needs/issues/gaps, recommend solutions, and develop technically feasible tools in a timely manner.
• Build and/or support preparation of basic technical, business, and end user documentation.
• As a strong, individual contributor:
  Identify and recommend remedies, and/or implement solutions which enhance existing software and systems capabilities, performance, and security and/or introduce efficiencies or automation into stakeholder workflows.
• Perform programming (e.g. Python), code refactoring, systems operations, and/or design.
• Evaluate COTS, GOTS, OSS, and other software and systems to implement algorithmically complex data and technology solutions.
• Contribute to the technical work program of one or more projects.
• As the contract P/PM:
  Provide thought leadership and technical and analytical expertise to the Government and vendor project team.
• Ensure vendor project team adherence to quality standards.
• Manage the integration of vendor tasks, track project progress, and conduct project analysis resulting in appropriate metrics when requested.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Eight years of relevant experience in Computer Science
• Demonstrate a high level of proficiency in the following:
  Scoping, Planning, and Completing full lifecycle engineering projects
• Manage development and implementation of projects assigned to contractor staff.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge in one (1) or more of the following areas:
  • User interface/User experience (UI/UX)
  • Front-end engineering, API development
  • Data Engineering
• Four years of relevant Program Management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science preferred
• Top Secret Security Clearance and must submit to a Full Scope polygraph examination

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Managing, communicating and contributing to enterprise architecture efforts, engineering trade-off analysis and feasibility studies, proof-of-concept prototypes to explore technical implementation options and issues, engineering reviews, technical design and implementation bringing commercial best practices to bear.
• Demonstrate a high level of proficiency as a Program/Project Manager (P/PM) with Federal Acquisition Certification (FAC)-P/PM and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

We are seeking a Senior Computer Scientist (Contract PM) to join our team supporting the FBI’s Counter terrorism Division.

Tek Synap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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COMPETENCIES

• Establish Focus
• Change Management
• Develop Others
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Interpersonal Awareness
• Build Relationships
• Analytical Thinking
• Conceptual Thinking
• Strategic Thinking
• Technical Expertise
• Initiative
• Foster Innovation
• Results Oriented
• Teamwork
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