Cleared Data Analyst

Job Family:

Data Science Consulting

Travel Required:

None

Clearance Required:

Active Secret

What You Will Do:

Our consultants on the Defense & Security AI & Data team help clients maximize the value of their data and automate business processes. This high performing team works with clients to implement the full spectrum of data analytics and data science, from data querying and wrangling to data engineering, to data visualization, dashboarding, and business intelligence (BI), to predictive analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) as well as robotic process automation (RPA). Our services enable our clients to define their information strategy, enable mission critical insights and data-driven decision making, reduce cost and complexity, increase trust, and improve operational effectiveness.

• Belong to a collaborative team dedicated to AI, Advanced Analytics and Intelligent Automation.

• Focus on client services, while also supporting business development, internal firm initiatives, and ongoing professional development in data science, data analytics, and/or data engineering.
• Work as a data scientist/data analytics/business intelligence professional in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Continue career development in data science and data analytics software, methods, and consulting.

Additionally, this consultant role will serve on a team that has a focus on cybersecurity metrics and use of available cybersecurity and IT asset data.  Familiarity with this type of cyber data and awareness of what the data means and how it can be displayed to relay important information about underlying risk areas and progress in mitigating those risks is essential.  This role will include these responsibilities:

• Drive cybersecurity dashboard and scorecard operations for agency leadership, including making recommendations for identifying new metrics, how to weight them and how they should be aligned with existing cybersecurity metrics and displays.    

• Evaluate and integrate available agency cybersecurity data sources for suitability, reliability, automated reporting, and scoring.  Familiarity with externally reported data sources such as agency-reported data provided in accordance with Chief Information Officer (CIO) Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) Metrics guidance will be highly-valued.

• Align risk and performance measures to the Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover functions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework.

What You Will Need:

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance

• Bachelor's degree is required

• Minimum THREE (3) years of relevant professional experience OR 2 years of relevant professional experience with a Master's degree 

• High level of proficiency in Python

• Expertise in Tableau dashboard development

• Ability to design data modeling processes, create algorithms and predictive models, as well as perform custom analysis

• Experience leading data driven analytic activities involving the identification of key indicators for both compliance and effectiveness critical to mission/business success

• Experience manipulating large data sets and using them to identify trends and reach meaningful conclusions to inform strategic business decisions

• Ability to clean, aggregate, organize data from multiple sources and transfer this information to data warehouses

• Ability to define data requirements and ensure storage, availability, and coherence of electronically stored information to guarantee it meets the organization's needs

• Competency in data mining, including structuring of raw data to formulate or recognize patterns to generate new information and unlock information and insights that help the organization better manage risks

• Ability to support on-site and hybrid projects in the DC metro area

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Proficiency in PowerBI 

• Knowledge of additional coding languages such as R and SQL 

• Competencies in IT Risk and/or Cyber domains 

• Quality control experience including debugging and conducting Quality Assurance of new features and enhancements 

• Ability to facilitate meetings and present topics to diverse groups of functional and technical staff 

• Experience developing new and re-designing existing processes to meet new and/or evolving business requirements 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
  

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00-$188,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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