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Department Summary:

MITRE’s Systems Engineering Analytics Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains.

Roles and responsibilities:

The System Engineering and Analytics Department is seeking a motivated, creative Data Analyst to apply cutting edge tools and techniques to challenging problems facing the US government. This position offers the opportunity to combine Systems Engineering with Data Analytics to guide teams and build end to end data analytic pipelines. You will have the opportunity to make strategic differences and have real long-term impacts on some of the most challenging problems in the government space.

As Our Data Analyst you will:

• Be passionate about applying data analytics to real world problems.

• Have an innate curiosity and interest in developing research questions and testing hypotheses with open ended tasking.

• Work with a spectrum of government sponsors to gain understanding of their challenges, evaluate possible solutions and conduct insightful, actionable analyses.

• Lead the development and application of a variety of analytical models and toolsets to sponsor challenges, with a willingness to adapt and learn.

• Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Software Engineering, or related field and 5 + years applicable work experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Must be a U.S. citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance

• Demonstrated ability to manipulate large datasets

• Experience with analytic tools such as Python, SAS, MATLAB, JavaScript, R, Java

• Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, OBIEE, C#, JQuery

• Ability to understand, interpret, and translate web development needs and lead teams building web-based applications

• Ability to define and formulate complex algorithms and process to solve complex data problems

• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, and Word; and demonstrated proficiency and strength in verbal, written, PC, presentation, and communications skills

• Use collaboration tools such as JIRA, Git Issues, and Kanban boards to assign tasks and track team progress

• Academic/ project experience working with databases (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB)

• Software Development experience in a shared environment leveraging tools such as GIT

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in technical field of study

• Preference given to qualified candidates that possess a current/active US Government clearance.

• Academic/ project experience working with web frameworks

Undergraduate research experience is a plus

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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