Senior Intelligence Analyst

About the role

KACE delivers technology-enabled mission services that advance public health, public safety and national security. This position supports Inspection Service criminal programs, including narcotics, prohibited mailings, money laundering, and organized crime drug trafficking operations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate information from a variety of sources to include agency databases, investigative resources, social media, chats, forums, dark net, Tor network, news feeds, internet relay chats and other sources of data openly available on the Internet.
• Conduct a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify criminal activity, monetization methods, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine attribution.
• Assist investigators with long-term complex investigations, including working with prosecutors and in multi-agency environments.
• Absorb the needs of the field and ensure the unit provides quality products and services.
• Absess the work of others, including facilitating the flow of work-related information, review of work products and providing technical guidance to achieve program or project objectives.
• Ensure proprietary data is handled, documented and disseminated within policy.
• Analyze data to identify and interpret patterns and trends, assess data quality, eliminate irrelevant data, and able to reconstruct parallel data; present findings in reports and presentations in non-technical terminology to various audiences.
• Document and report analytical results, create graphic displays and reports that present clear and concise representations of the information analyzed; and disseminate data as required by the assigned task(s).
• Develop the required level of proof needed to seize and forfeit assets via civil, criminal and administrative forfeiture processes; utilize compliance databases such as the USPS Bank Secrecy Act Database, SWB Trac and FINCEN to identify and locate assets.
• Aid in the creation of subpoena content, property/vehicle title & lien reviews, and open-source searches of relevant financial data and asset ownership.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in finance, information security, data science, intelligence, or other computer technology.
• A minimum of five years’ experience demonstrating the ability to review information, conduct analysis, conduct research, and communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Significant demonstrated experience will be considered in lieu of the education requirement.

Skills

• Extensive knowledge of federal, state and local criminal and civil statutes.
• Extensive experience with call detail record analysis conducted using and understanding intercept and analysis platforms, such as PLX, and ensuring data is collected accurately.
• Experience with Bank Secrecy (BSA) data and the Southwest Border Transaction Record Analysis Center (SWB Trac).
• Experience tracking money laundering and structuring activities of domestic and transnational criminal organizations.
• Experience working on time-sensitive projects, often under pressure with the ability to multi-task various tasks at the same time.
• Extensive experience in analyzing data and interpreting patterns or trends using the appropriate analytical techniques and methods.
• Experience conducting open-source, commercial and public databases and knowledge of conducting internet based investigations.
• Experience with mapping platforms, such as ArcGIS.
• Experience using analytical tools and visualization software such as the i2 Analysts Notebook, Microstrategy, Tableau, and QLIK.
• Knowledge of strategic intelligence development.
• Knowledge of information technology sufficient to research and communicate with internal and external secure electronic databases.
• Experience managing and/or mentoring in an intelligence or drug law enforcement environment.
• Assisting the Program Manager with establishing SOPs and standards for the unit.
• Foreign languages desirable, including Spanish.