Data Scientist

**General Information** **Requisition \#** 693 **Locations** USA\-VA\-Arlington **Posting Date** 05/06/2026 **Security Clearance Required** \- Active Public Trust **Remote Type** Hybrid (Washington DC Metro) **Time Type** Full time **Description \& Requirements** Elder Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeks a motivated, career and customer\-oriented Data Scientist to join our team in Arlington, VA. This is a hybrid position with several days onsite per month as needed. You'll support a U.S. federal civilian agency that serves as the central authority on human capital across the federal workforce, helping advance strategic goals around modernizing its use of data, building a stronger analytics workforce across government, delivering trusted human\-capital data products to agencies and employees, and strengthening data governance, privacy, and security. **Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To** * Develop, deploy, and maintain production ML and NLP models that surface insights from large volumes of human\-capital and workforce data, directly supporting decisions made by federal agencies, employees, and the public. * Build and modernize data products and pipelines that improve data access, integration, and quality across legacy and cloud\-based systems. * Translate ambiguous policy and program questions into well\-scoped analytical work, partnering with non\-technical stakeholders and presenting results in ways decision\-makers can act on. * Contribute to a modern, cloud\-first technology stack (Azure ecosystem) that meets federal standards for security, privacy, and governance. * Help strengthen the client's internal data\-science capability through pairing, code review, knowledge transfer, and reusable tooling. **Minimum Qualifications** * 2–3 years of experience developing, deploying, and maintaining large\-scale ML models in production using real\-world data * Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, data science, or a related quantitative field * Hands\-on experience building and evaluating NLP\-based machine learning models * Strong Python skills for developing and automating ML models and data pipelines * Proficiency with collaborative development tools (VS Code, Git, GitHub Copilot) * Experience working in Agile teams to iteratively develop and deliver data products * Strong analytical, communication, and cross\-functional collaboration skills, including translating ambiguous requirements into actionable solutions **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience using Azure cloud products such as Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Search. * Experience delivering data\-science work in a federal or other regulated environment, with awareness of FedRAMP, FISMA, or similar compliance regimes. * Experience working with human\-capital, workforce, survey, or other administrative\-record data. * Experience with MLOps tooling and patterns for monitoring, retraining, and governing models in production. **Clearance Requirements** * This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust clearance. U.S. citizenship or other status meeting the federal investigative requirements is required at the time of hire. **About Elder Research, Inc \- People Centered. Data Driven** *Elder Research considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.* *If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with Elder Research, please email us at careers@elderresearch.com and provide your name and contact information.*