Full-Time
Operations Analyst
Defense Analytics, DARPA
Chimera Enterprises International
Compensation Overview
$85k - $105k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA
In Person
US Top Secret Clearance Required
Bachelor's
Category
 Data & Analytics (1) |
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Required Skills
Python
Data Visualization
R
Financial analysis
MATLAB
Operations Research
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in engineering, science, mathematics, or a related technical field.
- At least 4 years of experience in operations research or a closely related analytical discipline supporting large organizations.
- Experience gathering data and constructing mathematical or statistical models to describe systems and support decisions.
- An active Top Secret clearance.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including statistics, modeling, and/or optimization.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to translate complex analytic findings into clear, concise briefings and written products.
Responsibilities
- Use quantitative techniques to provide decision support for defense research and development activities.
- Analyze budget plans, execution profiles, and trade-off scenarios to assess funding and scheduling options.
- Work with financial and program management staff to develop data-driven insights for planning, resource allocation, and execution monitoring.
- Analyze operational and tasking data to understand workload, throughput, and performance.
- Develop metrics, visualizations, and decision-support tools to identify process performance and needed adjustments.
- Pull together information from multiple sources and structure it for analysis.
- Present clear, actionable findings.
- Examine lifecycle and performance data to identify trends and potential areas for improvement in acquisition and transition activities.
- Assess how programs progress from early research through transition using quantitative methods to evaluate options, risks, and likely outcomes.
- Collaborate with program managers, acquisition analysts, financial analysts, and other stakeholders to align analytic products with operational needs and deliver them in decision-support formats.
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with defense planning, programming, budgeting, and execution processes and related data.
- Experience supporting Department of Defense financial, acquisition, or research and development organizations.
- Familiarity with one or more analytical tools such as MATLAB, R, or Python.