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Legato,-LL lists this Data Scientist (NH-3) opportunity in corridor north, Maryland. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Legato, LLC
Data Scientist in Linthicum Heights, MD.
Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
Salary Range: $220,000-$240,000, depending on experience.
What You Will Do:
The Data Scientist will join a mission-driven team focused on transforming a traditionally manual system security evaluation process into an automated, efficient, and intelligence-driven model. In this role, the successful candidate will develop and enhance automated capabilities that replace manual security evaluation and authorization processes, leveraging data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
The Data Scientist will use Python to process, analyze, and visualize security-related data while ensuring systems and resources meet security requirements. This individual will define data anomalies and outliers, assess patterns through statistical analysis, and identify system and resource associations based on attributes and known system information. The role will also involve designing, building, and maintaining ETL pipelines to collect and integrate data from multiple sources, including known sensors, security tools, compliance databases, and other enterprise data sources.
Additionally, the Data Scientist will transform and prepare data for reporting, analysis, and automated assessments; support data engineering operations involving data quality checks, pipeline monitoring, workflow optimization, and timely delivery of security insights; and enable scalable, reliable dataflows that support continuous monitoring and RMF automation.
Our minimum requirements for this role:
Ten (10) years of experience analyzing datasets and developing analytics
Experience programming in Python, SAS, or MATLAB
Experience designing, developing, and implementing ETL pipelines
Experience cleaning, transforming, and preparing data for analysis
Experience developing, tuning, and testing predictive models
Experience creating analytics dashboards, visualizations, and charts
Experience with Elastic
Experience with machine learning
Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Experience with regression and predictive analysis
Experience with Python
Experience with MATLAB or R
Experience with SQL or MongoDB
Experience with Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline
Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline
Ten (10) years of experience plus a Bachelor's and Master's degree are required
Candidates without a Master's degree must have at least twelve (12) years of relevant experience
A Ph.D. may count as four (4) years of experience
About Your New Company
Legato, LLC is a dynamic small business headquartered in Columbia, near Ft. Meade, MD. Our positions include Cyber, Software, Systems, Networking, Data Science and other complex engineering capabilities. We set ourselves apart by having employees in the top of their field and who enjoy working at Legato for its attention to its employees, aggressive compensation, and upward mobility possibilities.
We offer a generous benefits package including individual and family health, vision and dental benefits. A minimum of four (4) weeks of paid time off including a week of sick leave. Legato gives our employees 11 federal holidays off and a 401(k) employer match with no vesting schedule. There is an opportunity to earn referral benefits or bank hours if the contract allows.
Disclaimer
The salary range provided is an estimate based on current market conditions and may be adjusted based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. The final salary offer will be determined after a thorough review of the candidate's background and alignment with the role. Please note that this range is subject to change and should be considered as a guideline rather than a definitive figure.
Legato LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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