Data Analyst, Mid

About the Role

As a Data Analyst at Booz Allen, you will support a mission and use data for good. You will bring your knowledge to USCENTCOM’s data lake environment to support machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence development campaigns. As a client-facing data analyst, you’ll work closely with clients to understand their questions and needs, then dig into their data-rich environments to help find information. You will extract and evaluate data, interpret the information, and recommend how it can be used to make an impact on worldwide military operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Use your technical knowledge to support client and stakeholder relationships in USCENTCOM.
• Research, develop, and test data methodologies and generate cross-functional solutions through collection, interpretation, evaluation, and analysis of large data sets.
• Contribute to impactful work and guide decision-making across multiple organizations.
• Apply your communication skills and analytical mindset by simplifying technical requirements and trends, based on audience.
• Present data findings and recommendations to clients and stakeholders using your knowledge of databases, scripting languages such as SQL, Python, or R, and Microsoft Office suite.
• Establish quantitative and qualitative metrics and key performance indicators to drive technical outcomes.
• Apply data visualization through different formats such as graphs, tables, and PowerPoint slides.
• Grow your communication and technical skills by creating data-centric solutions across leading Joint Combatant Command.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 2+ years of experience designing algorithms and data manipulation capabilities using programming languages such as R, Python, or SQL.
• Knowledge of how to identify new sources of data and methods to improve data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Ability to develop data pipelines and integrate data tools and solutions to enable self-service frameworks for data consumers to monitor and report on data.
• Ability to work collaboratively with intelligence and data analysis teams to produce qualitative and quantitative data that support intelligence products.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science field.

Nice to Have

• Experience with distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL.
• Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2.
• Experience supporting Joint Combatant Commands or other DoD organizations.
• Experience with C++, JavaScript, and Go programming languages.