Data Scientist
Centurion Consulting Group · Washington, DC
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Jul 5, 2026
Washington, DC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data scientist role supporting defense clients, focused on aircraft maintenance, manpower, and readiness analytics. Day-to-day work involves pulling and analyzing data from multiple sources, building and refining dashboards, and translating findings into briefings for both technical and senior military audiences. The role requires an active Secret clearance and partial on-site presence at the client location.
Mid level · National · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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).
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 (10)
Location is not specified in the posting; the role requires co-location on a client site 2–3 days per week, suggesting a hybrid arrangement near a DoD/military installation, but no city or metro is named.
The clearance gate is stated as 'Active Secret clearance or higher' — Secret is the minimum hard requirement.
Python, R, and SQL are listed as interchangeable options ('at least one or more analytical/programming tools such as Python, R, or SQL'); Python is used as the primary name with R and SQL as alternatives. Note that SQL also appears independently in the day-to-day work context, but the JD presents all three as substitutable for this gate.
Data visualization is listed as a required skill ('strong data visualization and data storytelling skills') but names no specific tool; it is retained as a named capability gate.
Palantir Foundry appears under Preferred Skills only.
Advanced mathematics/statistics and predictive/prescriptive modeling experience appear under Preferred Skills; statistics is retained as the named technical concept.
DoD experience and familiarity with military rank structure are listed under Preferred Skills — these are soft/domain knowledge items with no specific technology name and are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
No compensation range is provided in the posting.
The alt SOC 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts) is a plausible runner-up given the heavy emphasis on defense/military analytics, dashboards, and decision-support briefings alongside the data science framing.
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.
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