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DATA SCIENTIST

Military Sealift Command

Department of the Navy

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$127,646 - $165,945

per year

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GS-13 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves helping manage and integrate data for the Military Sealift Command, creating policies for data handling on secure networks, and working with teams to analyze information for better decision-making.

It focuses on building tools and metrics to track data projects and producing reports on their results.

A good fit would be someone with strong data analysis skills, experience in team coordination, and a background in government or military operations who enjoys solving complex data challenges.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-13 level or equivalent in data management, policy development, and analytics
  • Mastery in data science, including mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling, and simulation
  • Experience facilitating policies, procedures, and practices for data management on unclassified and classified networks
  • Skill in coordinating data integration plans, including development, implementation, execution, and sustainment
  • Ability to collaborate with data owners, business systems managers, and resource managers for data aggregation, security, and lifecycle management
  • Proficiency in leveraging data analytics environments (e.g., DAE) for visualization, dashboards, and decision-quality data
  • Experience developing metrics to track and measure progress in data integration and analytics initiatives

Full Job Description

You will serve as a DATA SCIENTIST in the MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND (MSC), CORPORATE OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE (N9) of MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience facilitating development of policy, procedures, and practices for the management of data for the Commander Military Sealift Command on both unclassified and classified networks.

Experience coordinating development, implementation, execution and sustainment of a Command Data Integration Plan.

Experience collaborating and coordinating with command data owners to support command data integration and data analytics efforts, leveraging the command Data Analytics Environment (DAE) to aggregate and manage decision-quality data available for use in command visualization/dashboards.

Experience coordinating and collaborating command Business Systems and Resource Managers to ensure integration of future business systems and to command data storage, access, security, and life cycle requirements are achieved.

Experience developing metrics to support, track, and measure the progress of command data integration and data analytics initiatives.

Mastery experience of data science, mathematics, statistical analysis, modeling and or simulation.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series IOR: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/data-science-series-1560/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will facilitate development of policy, procedures, and practices for the management of data.
  • You will collaborate and coordinate with command data owners to support command data integration and data analytics efforts, leveraging the command Data Analytics Environment (DAE).
  • You will develop metrics to support, track, and measure the progress of command data integration and data analytics initiatives.
  • You will collaborate and write technical reports and prepare briefing materials describing outcomes of data projects/studies.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/11/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/11/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12901751-26-BMB