Data Mining and Analytics Engineer

  • Senior-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 7 July 2025
  • Pensacola, Florida, United States | Arlington, Virginia, United States
  • Remote position
  • Closing on 6 August 2025
  • Current
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Job Description

ICF International seeks an experienced Senior Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support the research and development of new cyber analytic capabilities that will help the US protect and defend its networks and critical information systems. The successful cleared candidate will act as a Senior Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support a large federal cyber security analytic program. Your work will contribute to the knowledge of how cyber-attacks work, how vulnerabilities are exploited, and the way hostile cyber actors operate.  Utilize your skills to help experiment and prototype future cyber capabilities for implementation at large-scale.

As the Senior Data Mining and Analytics Engineer, your exceptional skillset will create useful and actionable insight for the customer through the development of analytic solutions (hardware, analytics, tools, techniques, practices, deployment, standards, performance specifications, etc.) for analytic use cases developed during the performance of this project. You will work closely with the Analytics Research team to identify platform enhancements that support the forward-looking analytics under consideration.

The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of a wide variety of systems and networks to include high-volume/high-availability systems. You are focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success using analytics to drive an understanding, growth, and success of the analysis. This is an opportunity to contribute to an important project from its beginning, work with the latest and emerging technologies, and all while building a great career at ICF!

This role is primarily telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or ICF facilities within the National Capital Region (Washington, DC metro area).

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Perform knowledge elicitation from customer subject matter experts and convert that to build analytic solutions
  • Design, engineer, and optimize sustainment of large-scale distributed computation platforms and supporting environment (ecosystems) for various stakeholders, business owners, and industry partners
  • Manage teams of system administrators, prioritize work, identify high-risk critical problems, and dedicate appropriate resources
  • Oversee the transition of services from third-party vendors to the analytic environment and be responsible for ad hoc and formal end-user training
  • Identify applicable data to perform analytics and create solutions to acquire, transform, and load or correlate data components to and from the analytic environment
  • Develop custom data modeling procedures to assist with data mining, modeling, and production
  • Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
  • Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
  • Interpret and communicate results to non-technical customers

What You Must Have:

  • Active high-level security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
  • US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree with 12+ or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field
  • Practical working experience and advanced knowledge of cyber threats, tools, techniques, and processes.
  • Demonstrated experience in data modeling and working with datasets of all sizes using a variety of data mining and data analysis methods/tools

Preferred Skills/Experience:

  • Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details
  • Experience in developing analytic tools, processes, and governance for storing, modeling, capturing, and delivering data to the client’s enterprise
  • Experience with computational notebook software such as Zeppelin or Jupyter
  • Experience with the application of visual analytics to computational analytic results
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, R, etc.)
  • Experience with database querying like SQL
  • Readiness to collaborate with engineering teams, product teams, and customers to develop prototypes and software products
  • Practical experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher desired
  • CompTIA Security+ or higher cybersecurity certification preferred

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$107,936.00 - $183,491.00

Disclaimer: Applications will be received until this position is filled.

About the Organization

ICF Macro, an ICF International company, is dedicated to improving lives worldwide through service to the public sector. For more than 40 years, Macro has supported the success of governments and businesses by delivering high-quality, research-based solutions to complex problems. ICF Macro has provided scientifically rigorous survey and policy research that has helped shape public health policy and programs worldwide. For the US Agency for International Development?s MEASURE DHS program, ICF Macro has conducted more than 200 national surveys in 75 countries over the past two decades. Core competencies in research and evaluation, social marketing, management consulting and information technology are complemented by in-depth expertise in areas including global health, housing, education, international development, child labor, HIV/AIDS, diversity, and more. ICF Macro is headquartered in the Washington, DC area and maintains offices across the United States. We have conducted projects for private and public sector clients in more than 120 countries.

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