Operations Research Analyst, Senior

About the role

As an operations analyst, you’re passionate about exploring the root cause of an issue and then analyzing, reporting, and developing recommendations for a creative solution. We need an experienced research analyst like you to help us solve complex problems for our clients. On our analysis and application development team, you'll help solve complex analytical problems, assist with developing process improvement solutions, and create applications and tools to enhance productivity.

Responsibilities

• Help guide a team to develop study plans, conduct research, create models and tools, brief decision makers, and write reports.
• Use your passion for analytics and statistics to devise modeling and measuring techniques utilizing mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, and operational mathematics techniques such as linear programming, simulation, task automation, and other principles and laws of scientific and economic disciplines.
• Develop technologies and concepts that advance efficiencies for IC and DoD customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience conducting analysis of management and operational problems using operations research techniques
• 1+ years of experience with the application of modeling and simulation to address decision analysis problems
• 1+ years of experience conducting multiple objective decision analysis or cost benefit analysis in support of research objectives
• 1+ years of experience with pandas, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, Octave, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, ExtendSim, SAS, Netica, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSST
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• Nice if you have: Experience developing and performing verification and validation of models to ensure adequacy, Experience developing and delivering training materials for operations research techniques, Experience conducting problem definition and gathering data requirements from stakeholders, Experience briefing results and preparing written reports on analytic approaches and methodologies, Experience using machine learning and large language models to solve complex problems
• Master’s degree in a STEM field

Skills

• Operations research knowledge
• Modeling and simulation
• Multiple objective decision analysis
• Cost benefit analysis
• pandas, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, Octave, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, ExtendSim, SAS, Netica, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSST

Benefits

• TSA clearance with a polygraph

Pay

$69,400.00 to $158,000.00 (annualized USD)

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.