Data Analyst - 26418

HII's Mission Technologies division • Annapolis Junction, MD

3d • $73,025 - $104,321

About The Position

HII-Mission Technologies is currently seeking a Data Analyst to join a data analysis team to provide data related support, data investigation, research, data management and data reporting for a Government security organization, whose mission is to protect our nation's critical assets through enterprise risk management, continuous innovation, and excellence in mission performance and customer service. The team will provide direct support our Government customer’s metrics data group in identifying and reviewing the types of metrics pulled, utilized, and needed across their organization today. Characteristics of a successful candidate include possessing strong analytical and critical thinking skills; good customer-handling skills; advanced MS Excel skills; and effective verbal and written communication skills.

Requirements

• 3 years relevant experience with Bachelors in related field; 1 year relevant experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 7 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated working experience in technical data analysis, data science, or data warehousing with proven business analysis experience..
• Passionate about data, analyzing business needs, detail-oriented, and avid problem solver - breaking down problems and developing analytical insights.
• Critical thinker.
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Ability to build tabular and/or visualization reports as needed.
• The business sense to understand why you're pulling data and whether it seems accurate...not just pulling it.
• Excellent presentation, writing, and MS Excel skills are a must.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and experience working with SharePoint.
• Clearance: A SECRET security clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Strong technical aptitude.
• Passion for automation.
• A love for insights, innate curiosity, and a deep desire to find ways to create value.
• Comfort in a complex data environment and understanding of data structures.
• Experience with some flavor of data visualization.
• Knowledge of MS Teams as a collaborative tool.

Responsibilities

• In coordination with Product Leads, develop, monitor, and maintain performance dashboards and KPIs for system operations.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to define meaningful metrics and ensure accurate data collection.
• Analyze system data to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
• Work with a variety of data sources - extracting knowledge and actionable information from datasets.
• Build and flesh out data models for use in regular and/or automated reporting and analysis.
• Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) to access data from the customer’s systems, define measurement standards, and generate ad-hoc and recurring reports and visualizations targeted to customer’s operators, organizational leaders, and external (DoD/Government/Industry) stakeholders on customer’s performance.
• Partner with customer senior leadership and Chief Strategy Office staff to refine Balanced Score Card for the organization, assisting the Government, as needed, as they establish a tracking mechanism with leading and lagging indicators to demonstrate progress against their strategic goals.
• Consolidate customer metrics responses and create visual representations of the results for submission to customer executive leadership. Present insights and recommendations to stakeholders through clear visualizations and reports.
• Collect information within the customer organization and, as appropriate, from emerging mission areas, and provide recurring and ad-hoc metrics reporting support for stakeholders.
• Conduct trend analysis to identify challenges, shortfalls, or emerging risks and work with the applicable customer stakeholders to identify the root cause for the significant change.
• Plan and schedule work in such a manner that it promotes a smooth flow and even distribution of activities to ensure effective use of organization resources, achieve organization goals and objectives, and meets customer needs.
• As metrics are collected, provide any suggestions or recommendations (i.e., automation tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc.) to increase efficiency and/or analysis capabilities for the customer’s leadership’s future consideration, if appropriate.
• Design and implement automated reporting solutions to streamline performance tracking.
• Work closely, collaboratively and communicate effectively with all members of the project team including government and contractors.
• Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships.
• Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees