Data Scientist - OpenLake at Dezign Concepts in McLean, VA
- Company: Dezign Concepts
- Location: McLean, VA
- Posted: Sep 19, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 6+ years
Overview
Develop AI/ML solutions that help answer intelligence questions and turn large data stores into actionable insights. Location: McLean, VA Salary: (salary is commensurate with education and experience) Clearance: Active TOP SECRET/SCI with Polygraph
Job description
- Develop AI/ML solutions that help answer intelligence questions and turn large data stores into actionable insights.
- Location: McLean, VA
- Salary: (salary is commensurate with education and experience)
- Clearance: Active TOP SECRET/SCI with Polygraph
- Job Code: 09182023-4444-02-01
- Our customer seeks a Data Scientist with demonstrated experience building AI/ML tools and workflows on its OpenLake platform. You will develop data science solutions that address key intelligence questions and help partners derive insights from large data stores. Working with data scientists, data engineers, application developers, and data management coordinators, you will also contribute to extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines and web applications that accelerate analytic workflows.
Responsibilities
- Implement requirements aligned with the customer's GTM priorities and develop AI/ML deliverables on its OpenLake instance.
- Create resilient data engineering pipelines using technologies such as Trino, Iceberg, SQL, Postgres, Spark, Neo4j, Elasticsearch, and Apache Hive, integrated with OpenLake.
- Develop robust web applications on OpenLake using modern frameworks such as React and Node.
- Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise in AI/ML, web application development, and ETL.
- Maintain the cloud infrastructure and system accreditation associated with OpenLake and production applications developed on the platform.
- Ensure technical development and content comply with customer security policies and regulations.
- Use Confluence and JIRA to define and track requirements; maintain all code, including infrastructure code, in GitHub for customer access.
Requirements
- OpenLake: Demonstrated experience working on OpenLake, including navigating, developing, and deploying production-ready data pipelines and web applications.
- Developing AI/ML solutions that answer key intelligence questions.
- Using Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Kibana, JavaScript, Trino, Apache Hive, and Apache technologies.
- Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for automation, application deployment, and resource management, and leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
- Working with junior data scientists, data engineers, and application developers, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
- Managing and developing system accreditation and security-related documentation.
- Developing deliverables at scale for continued use, rather than one-off solutions.
- Amazon Web Services certifications.
- Experience with the customer's assessment and authorization (A&A) processes.
- Experience with a variety of the customer's data systems and sources.
- Knowledge of the customer's data management principles and workflows.
Skills
Required
- OpenLake
- AI/ML
- Elasticsearch
- Neo4j
- Kibana
- JavaScript
- Trino
- Apache Hive
- Apache technologies
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- GPUs
- Confluence
Preferred
- Amazon Web Services certifications
- Customer's data systems and sources