
Lead Observability Data Scientist
Leidos
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $131,300 - $237,350 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and operationalize models for anomaly detection, forecasting, early incident warning, performance regression detection, saturation/capacity risk, and service health scoring.
- Correlate logs/metrics/traces/events with topology, deployment, change, and business signals to identify drivers of degradation and reduce time-to-diagnosis.
- Prototype and advance agentic workflows that assist with triage, signal enrichment, event clustering, summarization, and guided next-best-action recommendations.
- Use and extend enterprise observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Cribl, SolarWinds, Langfuse) to extract signals, engineer features, validate hypotheses, and operationalize outcomes.
- Define data quality checks, feature pipelines, and scalable methods for working with high-volume telemetry (batch and/or streaming), partnering with platform teams as needed.
- Establish model performance measures aligned to operational goals (noise reduction, precision/recall of detections, lead time to failure, MTTR improvements); monitor drift and iterate.
- Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders with clear recommendations, tradeoffs, and measurable results.
- Ensure solutions align with Leidos standards for security, privacy, governance, and responsible AI practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field with 12+ years relevant experience (additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree).
- Demonstrated large-scale observability analytics/AIOps experience working with high-volume telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, events) in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML/data science libraries (e.g., pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn; deep learning frameworks a plus).
- Proven delivery of predictive analytics solutions such as time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, clustering, classification, and statistical modeling.
- Ability to move from ambiguous problem statements to working analytics in production-like environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate analytical output into operational and business impact.
Benefits
- competitive compensation
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
anomaly detectionforecastingperformance regression detectiondata quality checksfeature pipelinespredictive analyticstime-series forecastingclusteringclassificationstatistical modeling
Soft skills
communication skillsproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementanalytical thinkingcollaboration