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External Job Posting Title Senior Data Scientist - Operational Analytics

herndon, VA

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Job description

Responsibilities

Peraton Labs is seeking a Data Scientist to support the BNATCS CTO Advanced Analytics and Digital Command Center teams by transforming complex workstream, program, schedule, requirements, and operational data into trusted metrics, analytical insights, and decision-support products.

This role will support the analytics foundation behind the Digital Command Center (DCC) by helping interpret, model, visualize, and operationalize complex workstream data. You will work closely with CTO leadership and mission stakeholders to transform raw and evolving program data into actionable insights, dashboards, metrics, and analytics products that support FAA modernization objectives.

The ideal candidate for this role brings strong analytical judgment, cognitive flexibility, hands-on comfort with data, and the ability to understand both the technical structure of data and the operational meaning behind it. Candidates for this role should be able to analyze, reason, and communicate well enough to contribute to analytics workflows, dashboard logic, data validation, and integration activities supporting the consolidated data environment that feeds the program’s agentic AI engine.

Experience with FAA, NAS, Aviation, air traffic operations, transportation, safety-critical systems, or large-scale modernization data is highly relevant to this position.

Key responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Analyze workstream, requirements, IMS, schedule, risk, operational, and program data to identify trends, dependencies, gaps, anomalies, and decision-relevant insights

Define operational metrics, KPIs, analytical logic, thresholds, and decision-support views for Digital Command Center dashboards and advanced analytics products

Assess the quality, completeness, consistency, and usability of data made available through enterprise data repositories

Partner with data architects and data engineers to identify data gaps, transformation needs, metadata requirements, and analytics-readiness issues

Support ai-enabled analytics workflows by helping define trusted data inputs, context, validation criteria, and human-in-the-loop review considerations

Develop notebooks, scripts, SQL queries, statistical analyses, models, and reusable analytical artifacts to support data exploration and decision-making

Translate ambiguous operational questions into structured analysis, measurable metrics, and clear recommendations

Communicate assumptions, limitations, findings, and implications to technical teams, program leadership, and mission stakeholders

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

8+ years of experience with a BS/BA, 6+ years with a MS/MA, or 3+ with a PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related technical discipline

Experience analyzing complex structured, semi-structured, operational, program, or business datasets to support decision-making

Proficiency with Python, R, SQL, or similar analytical tools, with the ability to develop notebooks, scripts, queries, and reusable analysis artifacts

Experience with exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, statistical analysis, trend analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, classification, clustering, or predictive modeling

Experience defining or supporting metrics, KPIs, dashboards, reports, or decision-support products

Ability to assess data quality, completeness, consistency, and analytical usefulness

Ability to translate ambiguous operational and stakeholder questions into structured analyses and measurable outputs

US Citizenship

Target Salary Range

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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Worksite address

herndon, VA, 22070, US

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