Sr. Data Analyst TS/SCI Polygraph

Leidos is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support an Intelligence Community program in Bethesda, MD. An active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance is required. Original posting: October 19, 2026.

About the role

Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. The candidate will support Government staff in designing, developing, building, analyzing, and evaluating data management systems across a federated enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams of data and system engineers to design, develop, build, analyze, and evaluate data management systems to include database modeling and design, relational database architecture, metadata and repository creation and configuration management.
• Use data mapping, data mining and data transformational analysis tools to design and develop data repositories.
• Integrate disparate raw data from across the federated enterprise using any supported variation of the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) process.
• Analyze enterprise level Services of Common Concern to determine gaps, opportunities, and trends to improve enterprise services.
• Design, build and maintain data visualization dashboards, reports, and other products to suit client needs.
• Provide data analytic support to design and execute surveys, data calls, and other data gathering processes across a federated network enterprise.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical or analytic findings in an easily understood narrative via graphical, written, and verbal formats.
• Use statistical methods, machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, and pattern recognition to identify insights and trends.
• Design and build intuitive dashboards and visualizations to convey analytical outcomes.

Requirements

• BA degree and 12–15 years of prior relevant experience, or Masters with 10–13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Visualization and trend analysis experience.
• Ability to elicit information from a broad user base and provide applicable analytic methodologies to provide actionable insights.
• Proficiency with multiple data analytic tools like Access, Excel, Python, R, SQL, VBA.
• Proficiency in visualizing and presenting data using platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability with data analysis, data engineering, and data enrichment.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience within the Intelligence Community.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing applications in a cloud environment.

Skills & Tools

• Programming & scripting: Python, R, SQL, VBA
• Data analysis & engineering: Access, Excel, ETL processes, data mapping, data mining, data transformation
• Visualization & BI: Tableau, Power BI, dashboard/report design
• Advanced analytics: statistical methods, machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, pattern recognition
• Collaboration & workflow: Jira, Confluence
• Cloud application development & deployment

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• 11 paid Holidays
• 401K with 6% company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible Schedules
• Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
• Technical Upskilling
• Education and Training Support
• Parental Paid Leave

Pay

Pay Range: $116,350.00 – $210,325.00. The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.