OverviewDecisionPoint seeks a Data Analysis Task Lead to lead delivery across data analysis, database management, data warehouse support, and business intelligence under the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.
This SME-level position will coordinate requirements, technical teams, dependencies, quality, and Government collaboration to deliver accurate, timely, and actionable insights. The lead will translate mission priorities into coordinated delivery plans and oversee work from requirements definition through implementation, validation, and operational handoff.
The Data Analysis Task Lead will work with Government mission owners, database specialists, data engineers, analysts, BI developers, governance personnel, AI teams, and testers. The successful candidate will connect technical delivery with mission needs while maintaining visibility into progress, risks, data quality, and acceptance criteria.
This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Data Analysis Task Lead will:
- Lead planning, coordination, and delivery across data analysis, database management, warehouse support, and BI activities.
- Work with Government stakeholders to define mission priorities, requirements, delivery objectives, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status reporting.
- Coordinate assignments and technical activities across database, data engineering, analytics, BI, governance, and testing personnel.
- Translate mission requirements into coordinated work packages and prioritized delivery backlogs.
- Oversee database and dataset management activities supporting operational analysis and AI-ready data.
- Coordinate data ingestion, transformation, integration, warehouse development, and analytical delivery.
- Review proposed data models, metadata structures, integration approaches, and warehouse changes with technical specialists.
- Ensure requirements for data quality, integrity, traceability, access, performance, and usability are addressed throughout delivery.
- Coordinate with data governance personnel on ownership, definitions, authoritative sources, lineage, and approved uses.
- Work with BI teams to align dashboards, reports, analytical products, and self-service capabilities with mission requirements.
- Coordinate dependencies between data platforms, source systems, applications, AI capabilities, and reporting consumers.
- Establish review checkpoints for requirements, technical designs, implementation progress, testing, and release readiness.
- Coordinate reconciliation, data validation, regression testing, performance testing, and user acceptance activities.
- Review test findings, quality issues, and unresolved defects; coordinate corrective actions and closure.
- Resolve or escalate delivery impediments, resource conflicts, technical dependencies, and Government decisions.
- Monitor delivery progress and communicate risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and required actions.
- Validate that analytical products provide understandable and actionable insights aligned with documented objectives.
- Coordinate operational handoffs, maintenance documentation, technical guidance, and knowledge transfer.
- Track stakeholder feedback and incorporate lessons learned into future delivery priorities and process improvements.
- Prepare Government briefings, status reports, decision materials, and task deliverables.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
- Minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data analytics, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
- Experience leading database delivery.
- Experience leading data warehouse delivery.
- Experience leading analytics and business intelligence delivery.
- Experience defining, coordinating, and managing requirements.
- Experience overseeing delivery quality.
- Experience identifying and managing dependencies across teams and technical workstreams.
- Experience coordinating with Government representatives and stakeholders.
- Ability to lead teams across data analysis, database management, warehouse support, and BI to deliver actionable insights.
Preferred Qualifications
The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:
- Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification.
- Project management or Agile certification.
- Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense data programs.
- Experience modernizing enterprise databases, data warehouses, or analytics environments.
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and authoritative-source management.
- Experience coordinating ETL/ELT processes, source-system integrations, and data-quality controls.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms, AI-ready datasets, and analytical model integration.
- Experience delivering dashboards, reporting solutions, or self-service BI capabilities.
- Experience coordinating automated data testing, reconciliation, and user acceptance testing.
- Strong technical leadership, stakeholder facilitation, risk management, and executive communication skills.
