Senior Operations Research Analyst

KBR, Inc. • Niceville, FL

1d • Remote

About The Position

KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. The successful candidate will be part of the KBR team supporting the Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) Big Data (BD) and Knowledge Management (KM) Team working on BD and KM systems supporting DoD Test Ranges and various acquisition programs.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• An advanced degree in operations research, engineering, applied math, statistics, computer science or information technology with preferred 12+ years of experience within DoD.
• Candidates with 5-10 years of DoD experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Previous experience should include working with end users, gathering requirements and refining/operating data analysis tools or products to meet user needs.
• Previous experience should include developing and interpreting the results of analytic products with DoD specific data types.
• Experience using scripting languages (Python and R) to process, analyze and visualize data.
• Experience using notebooks (Jupyter Notebooks and RMarkdown) to create reproducible and explainable products.
• Experience using interactive visualization tools (RShiny, pyShiny, Dash) to create interactive analytics.
• Experience generating and presenting reports, visualizations and findings to customers.
• Experience using analysis methods, including supervised and unsupervised methods, to work with time series and geospatial data.
• Experience working with Windows, Linux, and containers.
• Experience querying databases using SQL.
• Ability to make insightful recommendations based on data driven analysis and customer interactions.
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with customers and teammates.
• Ability to speak and present findings in front of large groups.
• Ability to document and repeat procedures.
• Ability to train novice end users on the use of tools.
• Should be self-motivated to design, develop, enhance, reengineer or integrate software applications to improve the quality of data outputs available for end users.

Nice To Haves

• 12+ years of DOD experience
• Experience as a military ORSA.
• Experience working in government / defense labs and within their computing restrictions.
• Knowledge of military force structure and/or tactical messaging.
• Experience working with major DoD experimentation events, such as Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) events.
• Experience working with major DoD acquisition programs, such as Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
• Knowledge of the Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA), the Joint Mission Environment Testing Capability (JMETC) and distributed testing and training.
• Knowledge of DoD cybersecurity policies.

Responsibilities

• Support customers with insights gained from analyzing DoD Test & Evaluation data.
• Enable the development of data-driven decision analysis products through the innovative application, and promotion, of novel methods from data science, machine learning, and operations research to provide robust and flexible testing and evaluation capabilities to support DoD modernization.
• Discover insights hidden in large data sets and work with stakeholders to improve business outcomes through the delivery of high-quality products.
• Use a variety of data mining and data analysis methods, access data stored in a variety of data storage paradigms, develop models using common statistical and machine learning modeling approaches, use and create custom algorithms, implement analysis workflows in Python or R, and write reports and documentation.
• Provide analytic consulting services, support analytic workflow and product development and testing, promote the user adoption of methods and best practices from data science, conduct applied methods projects, and support the creation of analysis-ready data.
• Identify opportunities for process or workflow optimization.
• Be the face of the CHEETAS Team and ensure stakeholders have the analytical tools, data products and reports they need to make insightful recommendations based on data-driven analysis.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify analytic requirements and analysis questions that can be informed through the aggregation and analysis of large data sets collected during test events or exercises.
• Drive decisions through successful communication, in written or presented form, of data-based insights.
• Effectively communicate at both a programmatic and technical level.
• Provide technical expertise in methods from operations research and experience working on Department of Defense problems.
• Run and operate CHEETAS (and other tools); demonstrate these tools to stakeholders & VIPs; convey analysis results; adapt internally-developed tools, notebooks and reports to meet emerging needs; gather use cases, requirements, gaps and needs from stakeholders and for larger development items providing that information as feature requests or bug reports to the CHEETAS development team; and perform impromptu hands-on training sessions with end users and potentially troubleshoot problems from within closed networks without internet access (with support from distributed team members).
• Work independently with little supervision / direct tasking.
• Use a variety of methods and models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action.

Benefits

• KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior