Description

Position: Data Scientist Program Manager

Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Clearance: Secret

Job Description: Mission Essential is seeking a Data Scientist/Program Manager to lead a new initiative supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in Germany. This program will deliver critical engineering and technical support services, with a focus on advanced data science and engineering solutions. Duties include but are not limited to:

Perform Project Management-oriented tasks and manage team of 9 personnel:

• Create and maintain sprint plans showing timelines, risks, constraints.
• Lead Data Scientists including assigning specific roles/responsibilities on sprints
• Facilitate communication between teams within the DAG as well as 21st TSC MSC and staff section stakeholders.
• Monitor the execution of sprints and report progress to DAG leadership in daily Scrums.
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to project staff.
• Prepare and deliver project briefings, reports, and technical documentation.
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality technical solutions aligned with government requirements.

Analyze data sets for purposes ranging from descriptive to predictive across multiple platforms including but not limited to Palantir, TDP, Microsoft, Advana, and various Cloud Platforms

• Configure data pipelines within and across various data platforms leveraging both existing connections and establishing connections with APIs.
• Leverage existing low-code/no-code capabilities within the data platform to create decision support tools
• Configure python/SQL/R code to create decision support tools

Enhance and expand the configuration of advanced analytical models using AI and ML

• Create and configure historical datasets of pertinent parameters across multiple data platforms
• Create and configure new and leverage existing mathematical models using historical datasets

Provide real-time combat power, sustainment, and readiness forecasting: Combat power, sustainment, and readiness forecasting is a complex process that involves evaluating a wide range of factors to predict a military unit's or force's ability to successfully engage in combat and sustainment operations.

• Analyze resources including but not limited to:
• personnel
• equipment
• training
• logistical support
• Analyze external factors including but not limited to:
  • terrain
  • weather
  • capabilities of potential adversaries

Use resource and external factors analyses and previous forecasts to forecast combat power, sustainment, and readiness.

Document code, APIs, and system architecture for future reference and team collaboration.

Conduct and support organizational/internal training on and configuration of tools designed to enable accurate adoption of tools within the command.
Job Requirements: Years of Experience combination of any of the following

• Twenty-three (23) years of experience working with the DoD in a technical and program/project manager capacity
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or physical science field AND eighteen (18) years of experience working with the DoD in a technical capacity
• Master's degree in technical or physical science field AND sixteen (16) years of experience working with the DoD in a technical capacity
• PhD in a technical or physical science field AND ten (10) years of experience working with the DoD in a technical capacity