Data Analyst

Job Description
 

Provide highly complex data mining, statistical analysis, trend analysis, and causal analysis

Perform as a technical lead responsible for monitoring and providing monthly contract reports and deliverables

Responsible for integrating multiple disciplines in an operations research team and translating applicable methods into language and application understandable by operational managers throughout the organization

Review and provide quality control methods on products

Prepare and update training materials to ensure newly assigned personnel gain an understanding of key analytic tools, procedures, and methodologies used

Take structured and unstructured data and distill the information into a cohesive analytical product for a contracting functional business area audience

Support pattern analysis methods to formulate recommendations to operational managers based upon exploiting patterns in the past, current, and anticipated operational environment

Required Skills
Must have strong technical skills in areas such as statistics, programming languages like R or Python, SQL (Structured Query Language), data visualization, and data cleaning and preparation

Have experience advising senior DoD decision makers on methodologies, results, and conclusions from applied operations research

Have experience with the primary tools used for research services include, but are not limited to, Logistics Management Program, Vantage, Virtual Contracting Enterprise, General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), SAP Business Objects/Web Intelligence Reports, Microsoft SharePoint, Army-specific contract writing systems (Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2) and Procurement Automated Data and Document System (PADDS)), and various Government and Commercial business process automation systems

Personnel should have strong data manipulation and problem-solving skills

Have good communication skills and problem-solving ability