Lead Data Scientist shall possess and provide the following required skills and demonstrated experience:

• (U) Demonstrated experience generating ideas for revolutionary technologies supporting operations in the hard target mission space.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with entrepreneurial leadership in developing, pitching, selling, and deploying new technologies to solve operational problems.
• (U) Demonstrated experience in Python development with expertise in Python data analytics packages such as pandas, numpy, scipy, gensim, and scikit-learn.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with database technologies, including Elasticsearch and SQL databases.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with data pipelines and workflow technologies, such as Apache NiFi
• (U) Demonstrated experience with task tracking and version control technology, such as GitHub and JIRA.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with AI/ML technologies and packages, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with ML model development on text data, including NLP, and structured datasets.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with data visualization technologies and packages, such as Kibana, Bokeh, Leaflet/Folium, and Tableau.
• (U) Demonstrated experience developing in a cloud environment, such as Amazon Web Services. 
• (U) Demonstrated experience building application web based front ends.
• (U) Demonstrated experience handling restricted data sets, both at the individual and system level.
• (U) Demonstrated experience managing data to include transfer, ingestion, ETL, management, retention, and deletion while maintaining provenance and handling and dissemination restrictions.
• (U) Demonstrated experience working with data spread across multiple enclaves.
• (U) Demonstrated experience in the Sponsor’s A&A process; security regulations, policy and guidance.
• (U) Demonstrated experience documenting and editing the results of technical analysis for publication to non-technical audiences.
• (U) Demonstrated experience solving tough problems by developing repeatable methodologies.
• (U) Demonstrated experience building and maintaining web based applications.
• (U) Demonstrated experience developing Flask apps.

4.2        (U) Desired Skills and demonstrated Experience

 (U) Skills and demonstrated knowledge that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• (U) Demonstrate experience managing a Confluence site.
• (U) Demonstrated experience with the Russian language ability.
• (U) Demonstrated experience working the Sponsor’s Russia mission.
• (U) Demonstrated experience working the Sponsor’s operational mission.