The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) seeks to hire a Data Scientist, according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov.
The NCTC leads the nation’s effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing and sharing information to drive whole-of-government action and achieve our national CT objectives.
According to the posting, duties for the Data Scientist include:
- Translate complex technical efforts for mission and, conversely, translate mission requirements into actionable problems.
- Engage with customers to determine the nature of the problem, evaluate options, and offer recommendations for solution.
- Acquire, process, and refined data sets from various sources; utilizing computer programming and/or data science capabilities, when necessary.
- Identify and use standardized methodologies and analytic tools to address existing or potential intelligence problems and collections strategies; participate on teams to develop new technologies and applications, as needed.
- Provide leadership and/or oversight to data science problems that may include ill-defined requirements, ambiguity, parallel tasks, multiple dependencies, high risks, and multiple interfaces; ensure alignment with strategic or corporate objectives.
