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title: 'Data Scientist - Mentorship and Training at Swift'
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# Data Scientist - Mentorship and Training at Swift

- **Company:** Swift
- **Location:** Mclean, VA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group/am9icG9zdDpyeipPA4bIkOu6QyV_LHUZ

## Job description

Swift is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

Are you passionate about turning multi-source data into clear insights and training others to do the same? We’re looking for a high-performing Data Scientist to combine hands-on data science with leading training modules and mentoring data scientists. The location of this job is McLean, VA.

Responsibilities:

- Design and deliver onboarding and upskilling programs for data scientists.
- Design and teach/facilitate in-person trainings to include full day classroom trainings and 1–2-hour deskside trainings
- Author and refine training materials and playbooks that make complex topics approachable.
- Establish and champion best practices for version control (Git/GitFlow), code review, and continuous integration for data science teams.
- Document tools, packages, and methodologies with Sphinx.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate mission needs into training, tooling improvements, and backlog priorities.

Requirements:

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Minimum 10 years of data science experience
- Advanced Python proficiency
- Expertise writing complex, performant SQL across multiple data sources; comfortable with schema exploration and query optimization
- Expertise with Git-based workflows (branches, PRs, code reviews)
- Proficiency with Linux fundamentals (shell, filesystem, SSH), Conda environment management
- Fluency with Jupyter Notebooks for exploration, demos, and reproducible training assets
- Demonstrated ability to debug code and data issues
- Exceptional communication skills and a coaching mindset; able to explain technical concepts clearly to junior data scientists in visual, verbal, and written formats
- Proven experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders and incorporating feedback into iterative improvements
- Desire to learn new data science techniques or software and prepare trainings
- US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required.

Desired Experience:

- Elastic Stack familiarity (Elasticsearch indexing/search patterns, Kibana visualizations, Logstash/Filebeat pipelines).
- Apache Spark (PySpark) for large‑scale data processing and performance tuning.
- FastAPI for building well‑documented, testable services that expose models and analytics.
- Docker and microservices fundamentals
- ETL/ELT design patterns and data workflow orchestration
- Sphinx for generating maintainable, versioned documentation from source.
- Understanding of API security and certificates
- Experience with client’s Data Science environment
- Knowledge and implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLMs
- Experience with web development through Gradio, Streamlit, etc.

Do you know anyone for this position, or other positions open at The Swift Group? We offer a $5,000 bonus for any referral candidate we hire, paid out at the new hire’s 90-day mark.

We are not working with outside staffing agencies to fill this position, and we will not be accepting unsolicited resumes. All inquiries must go through the recruiting team.

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## About Swift

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Swift Group provides national security technology and mission support by combining experienced field operatives with expert technologists.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding stage)
- **Headquarters**: Reston, VA, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: National security, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, training and logistics.
- **Target customers**: U.S. Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community agencies (B2G).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “When national security leaders need something built quiet that hits loud, they turn to Swift.” — The company pairs field operators with technologists to solve complex national security challenges with speed, discretion, and precision.

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **HPC Research & Technical Advisement**: Specialized advisement for revolutionary high-performance computing systems supporting data-intensive missions.
- **Software Development & Data Solutions**: Rapid prototyping, agile development, and applied data science tailored to mission needs.
- **Cyber Enablement**: Network defense, offense, threat analysis, and resilience for enterprise and operational environments.
- **Operations**: Mission planning and execution support delivered shoulder-to-shoulder with client teams anywhere in the world.
- **Training & Mission Support**: Operator-led instruction and technical training across the full mission lifecycle.
- **Energetics**: Advanced research, advisory, and deployment of energetic materials to improve system performance and operational effect.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (privately held).
- **Key Metric**: Over **126 open positions** currently listed on the careers page, signaling rapid growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Growt Signals**: Founded in 2019, now has multiple offices (Reston, Annapolis Junction, Chantilly, McLean, etc.) and supports customers across the U.S. and globally. High volume of active job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Operator-led approach**: Combines real-world field experience with cutting-edge engineering, reducing the gap between mission needs and technical solutions.
- **Integration**: Unified teams of operators, engineers, and analysts work together, avoiding siloed tools.
- **Discretion and trust**: Emphasizes low-profile, off-the-record work, earning deep trust from national security clients.
- **Acountability**: Company culture of owning outcomes, with a flat, agile structure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expanding capabilities in cyber, HPC, and data science while maintaining operator-driven agility. Continued support for sensitive, high-stakes missions across civilian, defense, and intelligence domains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven, employee-focused, with a strong sense of purpose. Values include transparency, integrity, service, and innovation.
- **Work environment**: Low-profile, high-impact. Roles often require clearance and on-site presence at client locations (e.g., Chantilly, Annapolis Junction, Reston). Not fully remote; likely hybrid or on-site.
- **Bnefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, education, and time-off benefits.
- **Success stories**: Clear career progression from analyst to chief architect, with wide pay bands (e.g., $50k–$290k) indicating room for growth and specialization.

## Sources
1. [theswiftgroup.com/company](https://theswiftgroup.com/company/)
2. [theswiftgroup.com](https://theswiftgroup.com/)
3. [careers.theswiftgroup.com](https://careers.theswiftgroup.com/)
4. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/the-swift-group)

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