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Vantor is currently seeking a Geospatial Data Scientist who will be responsible for providing technical expertise in support of customer projects involving dynamic geospatial information to include non-traditional GEOINT, OSINT, SIGINT, and foundational intelligence data. Analytic products will fuse multiple sources of information into key findings, and geo-temporal pattern-of-life analysis to provide insight to customer requirements. 

As a Vantor team member, you will have the opportunity to closely support our mission partners, and your work will have a direct impact on mission imperatives.  In this role, you will work closely with other software developers, data analysts, data scientists and subject matter experts. 

What You’ll Be Doing: 

The role will focus on ingesting, spatially processing, applying targeting analytics, and enabling further correlation to other datasets in our on-prem HPC utilizing internal and external tools. This work will include: 
 

• Scaling analytics for pattern-of-life development 

• Enabling ingest and spatial processing of internal and external data sources  

• Developing spatial analytics within our big data science environment to perform correlations at scale, across multiple data types for further discovery and processing 

• Working with internal and external customers to refine code, develop new analytics and new methodologies to export points and places-of-interest to customers and partners  

• Create and apply automation workflows to better enable current AAP tools (Mosaic, Quantum Horizon and BDSE) to better support CPAAC customers and partners 

Minimum Requirements:   

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI and be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph. 

• At least 10 years of experience as a data analyst, data scientist or similar. 

• Experience working with a scripting language like Python, SQL, or similar. 

• In-depth knowledge of technical data types based on previous research and work with data protocols of interest. Data types of interest include Technical Telemetry Data and other forms of telecommunication protocol data types, including cellular, wi-fi, and ethernet. 

• Experience performing data analysis for the purposes of working with partners to help inform and scale their analytics 

• Must be able to work on-site in Springfield, VA 

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Comfortable briefing senior level leaders. 

• Experience conducting Activity-Based Intelligence or Pattern of Life analysis. 

• Experience creating new and innovative analytical workflows and methodologies and creating scalable solutions for existing workflows. 

• Experience in a customer facing role. 

• Experience with Spark, Pyspark, or Spark SQL. 

• Experience working with Jupyter Notebooks. 

• Experience working with other intel analysts and/or special operations customers. 

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For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.  If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

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