Hiring our Heroes Skillbridge - Operations Research Analyst

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to provide advanced analytical support shadowing SPA customers in the national security and homeland defense mission spaces to make better decisions. The candidate will be able to formulate the problem, construct a model, and derive a solution using qualitative and quantitative methods. When necessary, the candidate may perform validation and verification on other performers' work to ensure accuracy. The candidate will be able approach a problem from both a data-centric and decision-centric conceptual framework, apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.

Qualifications

• Must be an active participant in the Hiring our Heroes Skillbridge Fellowship to be considered for the Externship.
• Junior: Bachelor’s degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis. Up to 5 years of professional experience.
• Mid: Bachelor’s degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis. 5-15 years of professional experience.
• Senior: Master’s degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis. 15+ years of professional experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Top Secret Clearance
• Experience working as part of a team to solve a problem
• Experience using a repeatable, transparent analytical process from problem formulation to an optimal solution

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise briefing senior leaders to make decisions
• Expertise with at least one coding language like R, Python, VBA
• Expertise in data visualization that goes beyond standard pie charts
• Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI or other data visualization software that can integrate disparate data sources and turn messy data into an easy to understand visualization that a decision maker wants in front of him/her to aid in decision making
• Experience working with a government agency and experience using methodologies that support technology and investment decisions to improve national security mission success