Senior Data Analyst (Business Operations)

Position Overview

Join us in our support to the US Space Force (HQ USSF) Commercial Satellite Communication (COMSATCOM) Office (CSCO), where you will help shape the future of assured, resilient SATCOM for our warfighters and mission partners.

As a key member of a highly collaborative, mission-focused team, you will apply your expertise to help deliver innovative commercial SATCOM capabilities, integrate a transformative COMSATCOM business model into the broader SATCOM enterprise, and translate complex operational needs into effective, affordable solutions.

In this role, you will work directly with COMSATCOM customers and stakeholders, providing trusted guidance, insightful analysis, and clear recommendations that drive real-world impact in a rapidly evolving space domain.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of COMSATCOM usage, capability inventory, and demand data to identify trends, forecast future requirements, and support business operations decision-making.
• Develop and maintain analytic methods, metrics, reports, and forecasting approaches used to assess COMSATCOM usage, demand signals, cost drivers, and mission needs.
• Design and produce leadership-ready reports, dashboards, briefings, and data visualizations for USSF CSCO leadership, senior stakeholders, and external data calls.
• Evaluate data quality, source reliability, statistical significance, and analytic limitations to ensure conclusions are traceable, defensible, and appropriate for decision-making.
• Develop DoD COMSATCOM usage forecasts by integrating historical demand, customer requirements, operational trends, commercial market considerations, and program inputs.
• Lead or support analytic studies with COMSATCOM SMEs, including cost analyses, courses of action comparisons, business case analyses, market research, demand assessments, and commercial capability assessments.
• Translate ambiguous leadership questions into structured analytic tasks, define the data needed, develop the analytic approach, and produce clear findings and recommendations.
• Coverage with USSF program offices, operators, engineers, financial managers, acquisition personnel, and commercial providers to collect data, validate assumptions, and resolve analytic gaps.
• Review work products prepared by junior or mid-level analysts for accuracy, clarity, traceability, and alignment with stakeholder needs.
• Maintain awareness of global, regional, operational, and commercial SATCOM trends that may affect COMSATCOM usage, demand, capacity, or capability planning.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data analytics, operations research, business analytics, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related analytic field.
• Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, operations research, economics, business, engineering, mathematics, statistics, information systems, or a related field.
• Active Secret clearance required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in data analytics, operations research, economics, business, engineering, mathematics, statistics, information systems, or a related field.
• Experience supporting USG, USSF, DoD/DoW, or other federal space, SATCOM, telecommunications, or national security programs.
• Familiarity with COMSATCOM provider business models, commercial SATCOM markets, usage-based billing, service provisioning, or capacity planning.
• Experience using Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL, R, or similar tools to automate analysis, develop dashboards, or improve recurring reporting.
• Experience supporting acquisition analysis, business case analysis, market research, cost analysis, or demand forecasting for federal programs.
• Familiarity with federal acquisition processes and analytic rigor standards used in DoD or federal decision support.
• Experience mentoring junior analysts or reviewing analytic work products for accuracy, clarity, and traceability.

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $140,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. QinetiQ US considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.