Data Scientist with Java

Job ID 2617032

Location

McLean, VA, US

Date Posted

2026-09-18

Category

Information Technology

Subcategory

Data Scientist

Schedule

Full-Time

Shift

Day Job

Travel

No

Minimum Clearance Required

TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain

None

Potential for Remote Work

ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is seeking a

Data Scientist

to join our team to provide support specializing in natural language(NLP) processing and associated data preparation. The ideal candidate will have an extensive background in Java and Python.

This position in in Mclean, VA and requires a TS/SCI with polygraph.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, maintain and rewrite legacy Java applications.
• Refactor and extend existing back end systems.
• Write clean, scalable and efficient code to support business applications.
• Leverage dominant frameworks to build backend applications and REST API's.
• Write and optimize queries across relational and non-relations databases.
• Utilize test libraries, such as JUnit and Mockito to ensure application stability.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Core Java Object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts, multithreading, and memory management (JVM).
• Demonstrated experience with Spring and Spring Data JPA.
• Demonstrated experience with tools and build systems such as Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, Git, and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience with Oracle, Apache Tomcat, AWS Cloud Framework and Linux.
• TS/SCI with polygraph.

Desired Skills

• Demonstrated experience with Spring Boot and REST API Java implementations to support web applications.

Target salary range $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.