Cloud Engineer / Data Scientist (enterprise Engineer) with Security Clearance

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Job description

Job Description Company Overview: Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions. At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work. Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services. Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions. Join us and make a meaningful impact. Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. Description: Markon is seeking an experienced architecture savvy Cloud Engineer / Data Scientist to join our dynamic team. You will play a critical role in shaping our client's enterprise architecture, driving core to edge cloud and data-related initiatives across the client's organization. Responsibilities may include: Propose methods & tools, and create related deliverables for integrating, and adopting community architecture solutions. Capture, review and assess current state architecture for cloud infrastructure services & capabilities and provide analytical assessments with a proposed way forward for future vision and strategy documents. Establish and implement mechanisms that provide for a multiple cloud architecture strategy. Provide prescriptive guidance on defining the minimum viable products (MVP) for regional and edge cloud architectures. Develop and execute data strategies that consider long-term implications, anticipating future needs and trends. Explore AI and machine learning techniques within a diverse cloud environment and analyze its impacts on architecture. Explore emerging data sources generated by AI models and propose how they may integrate into a cloud data ecosystem. Provide cloud "Core to Edge" implementation plans and best practices. Provide Edge MVP launch plan documents. Provide knowledge transfer regarding edge architecture design and strategy. Assist Customer with identifying solutions for unique edge requirements. Assist Customer with conducting edge requirements assessment. Assist Customer with gathering details on current state edge solutions to include architecture resiliency. Assist Customer with application stack edge knowledge. Provide general recommendations on maturing future state architecture and edge capabilities. Champion a data mesh paradigm. Job Requirements Requirements: TS/SCI with CI Poly Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience or Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science) or BS degree and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience. Communication skills for technical writing and oral briefings and executive level presentation Familiarity with cloud platforms and technologies. Passion for staying up to date with industry trends and advancements. Desired Qualifications/Experience: Familiarity with Data Tagging and Taxonomy; API Brokers; Compute and Storage Optimization; and Qualitative Computing. Five or more years of experience working with or in the Intelligence Community (IC). Knowledge of and experience working with IC policies, directives, and standards. Experience with data visualization tools/software (e.g., Tableau, MS PowerBI) to develop and deliver analysis solutions and visualizations. Travel 0 - 10% Location Bethesda, MD - Bethesda, MD US (Primary) Education Bachelor's Degree Job Type Full-time Career Level Experienced (Non-Manager) Category Information Technology Exemption Type Exempt Date Needed By Security Clearance Top Secret/SCI with Counter Intelligence Polygraph

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