Principal Data Scientist (Hybrid/Remote)

About Kbr

KBR is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join our team in a hybrid role of mainly working from home and on occasion onsite at our customer location in the Lompoc, California area. KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Job Summary

Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate network data in a presentable fashion to help key decision makers make informed decisions on where to invest their resources to streamline their operational network and make it more efficient.
• Apply data mining and statistical analysis techniques like hypothesis testing, segmentation, and modeling to analyze large amounts of network data.
• Deliver the latest data science and practices to help design, build and maintain scalable and robust solutions that unify, enrich and analyze data from multiple sources of the network.
• Help clients make data-driven decisions by working with structured and unstructured data sets, building out predictive models and advise clients on data mining leading practices.
• Help unify, enrich, and analyze network data to derive new insights and opportunities.
• Leverage in-house data platforms as needed and recommend and build new data platforms/solutions as required to exceed client’s expectations.
• Communicate findings, recommendations, and opportunities to clients to improve data systems and solutions.
• Apply data driven approach (KPI’s) in tying technology solutions to specific mission outcomes.
• Consistently deliver quality client services by monitoring progress.
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance is required with eligibility to get TS in future to be considered for this role.
• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Statistics, Operations Research, Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• Must have 8+ Years of experience in data engineering.
• Must have experience with one or a combination of the following: data science, big data, and/or data engineering.
• Must have experience with various data technologies in at least one of the following ecosystems.