Data Analyst
Role Details
- Location: United States
- Employment Type: Full time
- Work Arrangement: Remote (remote-first with approximately 50-80% annual travel)
Role Overview
This role provides mid-level operational or technical expertise in support of experimentation, analysis, field events, and technology evaluations. It blends hands-on execution with insightful analysis, contributing to project planning, scenario development, and data-driven assessments.
Key Responsibilities
- Process, clean, organize, and validate event datasets, coordinating data requirements and resolving missing, inconsistent, duplicate, or unsynchronized records.
- Apply appropriate analytical methods to approved measures and evaluation questions, maintaining analysis scripts, calculation records, assumptions, and reproducible workflows.
- Integrate quantitative findings with validated operational observations, documenting data provenance, analytical limitations, uncertainty, and evidence traceability.
- Prepare charts, tables, dashboards, and written assessment findings for review, coordinating technical findings and issues with team leads and operational stakeholders.
- Perform mid-level engineering, development, or systems integration tasks, including developing data analysis tools, integrating hardware and software for event support, and executing scenario events with technical expertise beyond operator-level use.
- Contribute assessment reports, after-action products, and practical improvements to data quality and analysis procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
- Demonstrated capability in mid-level operational or technical roles.
- Education requirement may be satisfied with appropriate experience.
- Mid-level data analysis experience.
- Proficiency with spreadsheets and an analytical language or equivalent tools.
- Ability to validate datasets, document methods, and explain results and limitations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Military experience relevant to the assigned technical mission, OR equivalent operational or technical experience within a federal or state organization.
- Experience supporting DoD test events, experimentation, or operational analysis.
- Familiarity with integration of data sources, collection systems, or prototype technologies.
- Ability to mentor junior team members.
- Relevant quantitative or technical degree or equivalent experience; Python, R, SQL, statistics, visualization, or test-and-evaluation analysis.
Specialized Tools and Capabilities
- Excel; Python, R, SQL, or approved analytical tools; visualization tools.
- Controlled datasets and reproducible analysis records.
Clearance Requirements
- Secret eligibility required; Secret preferred. Higher access only as required by the assigned contract or program.
- Must comply with all applicable security procedures and reporting requirements.
Work Environment, Schedule, and Travel
- Remote-first role with approximately 50-80% annual travel to customer, laboratory, and event locations.
- Event execution may require extended days, shift work, early mornings, evenings, weekends, and schedule changes.
- Travel is governed by the organization's travel policy.
Compensation
- 2026 Pay Band: $88,000 – $126,000
Equal Opportunity and Accommodations
The hiring organization provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.