Data Scientist

Department : Global Services

Location : Huntsville, Alabama - On Site in USG Facility (Hybrid working conditions are at the approval of local authorities)

Term : Full time Contingent Upon Successful Background Check

Number of Positions : 1

Position 1 Start Date : Immediate

Citizenship : US Citizen

Clearance : Public Trust - Background Check - HSI Suitability Check

Why this role is important

• The Data Scientist will develop the methodologies and tools needed to enhance the government’s goal of developing more intelligence and investigative leads, of better quality.
• You will choose the best approach for the project; brief methodologies and outcomes, and create new norms’ for investigative support processes.
• Your impact will be made on important casework being conducted by the federal government.

About the role

The Data Scientist will be an on-site presence supporting the the US Government, with the following :

• Execute FNA’s Augmented Targeting Cycle of Analyze, Detect, and Dismantle (AD2) for the HSI Client inclusive of leveraging advanced network science and machine learning capabilities to enable more effective targeting
• Provide repeatable solutions for exploiting quantitative and qualitative / unstructured data from various sources and preparing it for analytics and applying it to the AD2 solution
• Execute ETL tasks and data cleansing, ensuring multiple sources of data are suitable for analytical driven solutions
• Support targeting tasks and create a repeatable solution or process for creating opportunities for information collection by agents, given a complement of government provided data enriched through targeted PAI, web, and dark web data collection
• Support targeting tasks and create a repeatable process for simulating the outcome of effects based targeting courses of action
• Support the identification of threat elements use of obfuscation measures, where organizational or individual behavior is incongruent with declared or otherwise labeled behavior expectations.

Why join FNA?

• Own and deliver meaningful work, making a global impact
• Rapidly advance your career, thinking and skills in a high growth tech company
• Collaborate with a diverse international team of innovative and high-achieving colleagues
• Annual stipend for personal and professional development
• International team off-sites in sunny locations
• We reward curiosity, initiative, execution and reliability with opportunity

Who we’re looking for

• Five or more years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying advanced analytics in support of knowledge discovery / link analysis for law enforcement purposes
• Five or more years of experience in extract, transform and load (ETL) processes on data from open web, dark web, and websites hosted outside of the United States
• Five or more years of experience in data ingestion, data sciences, integration, and fusion in response to new and expanding requirements
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited University in a quantitative discipline such as computer science, data science, statistics, or mathematics
• Capability to clearly explain complex problem solving techniques and solutions to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrable understanding of the different types of US Government information and intelligence collection (HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, etc)
• Demonstrable aptitude to utilize data analytics to create trend analysis
• Capability to come up with outside the box ideas to effectively guide the customer towards data driven solutions to relevant requirements and problems
• Proficiency in established defense and intelligence analytics software, including Palantir, SemanticAI, IBM i2 Analyst Notebook, etc is a plus
• Proficiency or experience with information dashboard software (Tableau, Power BI, Kibana), is a plus
• Defense or Intelligence community experience (five years or greater), a plus.

Government Specified Tasks

Analytic Work Product development. Discuss product requirements as determined by the approach to produce work products, such as a dashboard-like summary (or presentations) of comprehensive analysis on movement and activities of weapons and / or systems of high-risk areas.

Products can include the utilization of tools such as Tableau / Power BI / Kibana.

Analytical work products. Comprehensive summary and evaluation of strategic analysis that will support operational and intelligence gaps, transformational methodologies, and exploratory data sets.

Products can include regional or large scale trend analysis on export commodities (or entities) of interest.

• Lead Enhancement. Develop lead packages to include an information sheet on suspect and / or entities of interest and / or active and developing threats.
• Data management. Identify process gaps in data management related to HSI counterproliferation law enforcement activity, access new data, clean / normalize / disambiguate new data, data storage.

Categorize extracted data based on its origin, utility, and urgency and build query-able databases.

• Source Analysis. Conduct open source (e.g., social media exploitation and dark web scraping) to identify and determine new data sources to expand trend analysis on regional or global trade on weapons and / or systems of interest for the counterproliferation mission.
• Trend Analysis - Identify trends, detect high-risk areas for weapons proliferation and prioritize enforcement approaches by applying advanced analytics, including link and forensic analysis.
• Data Validation / Assessment. Conduct evaluation and verification of the data sets and the associated results (e.g., trend analysis) to determine the risk factors and magnitude of error.

About FNA

FNA is a leader in advanced network analytics and simulation.

Our software is used to uncover hidden connections and anomalies in large, complex datasets, to predict the impact of stress events, and to optimally configure financial systems and infrastructures.

FNA is trusted by the world’s largest central banks, government authorities, commercial banks and financial infrastructures.