Data Analyst

Hybrid | Washington D.C. | 3-4 days a week Onsite

Active Top Secret Clearance Required - Ability to obtain a SCI

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services. They are a team of experienced Cyber Security professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces. Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Data Analyst to join their team! As a Data Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into actionable insights that drive operations and decision-making. Your in-depth knowledge and experience in manipulating, statistically analyzing, and visualizing mission data will be essential to our team’s ability to uncover trends, identify opportunities, and optimize processes. This role is ideal for those who have experience applying analytic tradecraft to mission problems and translating that into code via data analysis, automation, and machine learning models. You will regularly think critically and devise innovative solutions to expedite and enhance complex data challenges for mission end users. You will work with highly technical data science teams and functional stakeholders, and your ability to speak and work in a shared language with them will be invaluable.

• Perform ad-hoc analysis using Python to support specific intelligence questions and projects
• Collect, clean, and preprocess large datasets from various sources to ensure data integrity and accuracy
• Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform decision-making
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and functional stakeholders, to understand data needs and deliver actionable insights
• Utilize statistical methods and software tools to analyze data and support decision-making processes
• Create and maintain documentation of data analysis processes, methodologies, and findings
• Ensure data security and compliance with relevant data protection regulations and requirements

Requirements

• Experience writing functional Python code to automate routine tasks and explore and analyze data
• Experience visualizing data to understand trends, patterns, and elucidate insights
• Ability to gather requirements for analytics that augment and/or enhance mission tradecraft
• Familiarity with cloud computing and services, particularly AWS
• Excellent technical troubleshooting and process implementation skills
• Exceptional customer service and team collaboration skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Ability to be on-site 60% of the time at a client SCIF located in Washington D.C.

Preferred Requirements

• Hands-on experience working in Cloud environments, particularly AWS
• Hands-on experience training, selecting, and evaluating machine learning models
• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community (IC), and the intel cycle
• Familiarity and experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in a related field
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Relevant certifications

Education/Certification Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is required

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a SCI is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.