Job Description

Data Analyst (TS/SCI, 3 yrs exp)
Reston, VA, USA

Full-time

Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

Gather data Analysts often collect data themselves. This could include conducting surveys, tracking visitor characteristics on a company website, or buying datasets from data collection specialists.

Clean data Raw data might contain duplicates, errors, or outliers. Cleaning the data means maintaining the quality of data in a spreadsheet or through a programming language so that your interpretations won’t be wrong or skewed.

Model data This entails creating and designing the structures of a database. You might choose what types of data to store and collect, establish how data categories are related to each other, and work through how the data appears.

Interpret data Interpreting data will involve finding patterns or trends in data that will help you answer the question at hand.

Present Communicating the results of your findings will be a key part of your job. You do this by putting together visualizations like charts and graphs, writing reports, and presenting information to interested parties.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and AND;
• 3 years of relevant experience.
• Critical thinking: Capable of making assessments or drawing conclusions based on analysis of facts, trends and evidence
• Communication: Strong written and speaking skills to communicate with colleagues and other stakeholders are good assets in data analysts.
• Experience with: Tableau, Jupyter Notebook and/or SQL

Desired Qualifications:

• Programming languages: Knowing a statistical programming language like Python to enable handling large sets of data and performing complex equations.
• Data visualization: Capable of consolidating findings in a clear, comprehensive format to ensure colleagues, employers, and stakeholders will understand
• Experience with: Excel, Google Sheets, R or Python, SAS, or Microsoft Power BI all a plus
• Research: Capable of conducting thorough research to justify trends and anomalies within data
• Statistics and math: Capable of using statistics and math to validate findings