Senior Data Visualization Designer

About the role

The Senior Data Visualization Designer will support a federal defense audit readiness engagement, focusing on the creation of actionable performance dashboards, executive reporting, and operational scorecards using Qlik.

Responsibilities

• Design and build actionable Qlik dashboards, executive views, and operational scorecards for senior leadership and auditor audiences.
• Translate financial and audit metrics—transaction volumes, root-cause categories, remediation status, and compliance indicators—into clear, interactive visualizations.
• Partner with data engineers on dashboard data models, KPI definitions, refresh logic, and dashboard performance.
• Establish visualization standards, layout patterns, and UX conventions appropriate for senior leadership consumption.
• Build drill-downs, filters, and self-service views that support triage operations and source-realignment reporting.
• Iterate dashboards across the sprint cadence; support dry-run testing, go-live readiness, and auditor walkthroughs.
• Ensure all visuals are audit-defensible and traceable to governed data sources.
• Document dashboard specifications, metric definitions, data sources, and refresh logic; partner with the Solution Architect, data engineers, and audit and accounting teams to align visualizations with reporting requirements.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card (CAC); preference for a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Design, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data visualization or business intelligence dashboard development.
• Hands-on Qlik (Qlik Sense / QlikView) expertise with strong data-visualization and user-experience design skills.
• Active or in-progress certification in Qlik and Tableau or Power BI.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business and financial metrics into actionable dashboards and executive reporting.
• Solid SQL and data-modeling fundamentals.
• Experience supporting federal, defense, GovCon, or regulated environments.
• Strong documentation habits and ability to work in a delivery-focused, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred

• Experience working with Databricks, Palantir, or comparable enterprise data platforms as visualization data sources.
• Familiarity with federal financial management, audit readiness, internal controls, or compliance reporting.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI in addition to Qlik.
• Background in user-experience design, visual design, or executive data storytelling.
• Experience supporting operational scorecards, metric validation, or reporting data models.