Senior Data Scientist - Clearance Required at LMI
$111,426–$192,890from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A consulting role focused on Army logistics data management, where the primary work involves building and maintaining enterprise data models, enforcing data governance standards, and monitoring data quality across large government systems. The position also requires producing analytical products and briefings for senior leadership and coordinating data-related initiatives across multiple Army organizations. Suits candidates with a background in federal or DoD data management and an active Secret clearance.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role title is 'Senior Data Scientist' but the actual work is heavily oriented toward enterprise data governance, metadata management, data quality, and executive reporting for Army logistics — closer to a data/information management analyst than a statistical or ML-focused data scientist. SOC 15-2051 (Data Scientists) was chosen as the best fit given the title and analytical framing, with 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts) as a plausible alternative given the DoD/logistics analysis emphasis.
The experience requirement is stated as 'three to ten or more years,' making 3 years the hard minimum. The wide range and relatively modest floor support a Mid seniority classification despite the Senior title.
The posting lists both US-Remote and US-VA-Arlington as locations; the role appears to be remote-eligible with Arlington/Tysons as the home office metro.
Skills in this role are largely methodological (data governance, data quality, data modeling) rather than specific named tools. The JD names only Microsoft Office Suite and generic categories (databases, reporting tools, data visualization platforms) as concrete technology requirements — no specific BI platform (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) or database product is named.
Dashboard development, business intelligence, master data management, and performance metrics appear under the Desired Skills section and are marked preferred accordingly.
An active Secret clearance is explicitly required as a hard gate.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data governance, metadata management, data quality management, master data management.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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