Senior Data Analyst

ACT1 Federal$170K — $200K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, engineering, computer science, business analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
  • 10+ years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, operations research, industrial analysis, program analysis, or a closely related field.
  • Extensive experience integrating, cleaning, validating, and reconciling complex data from multiple sources.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and at least one analytical or visualization tool (Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau).
  • Demonstrated experience in developing dashboards and visualizations that facilitate senior-level decision making.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical information to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Active Top Secret clearance required.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and integrate data from various authorized sources, including military and commercial datasets.
  • Develop data management protocols, including dictionaries and validation rules.
  • Evaluate and document data quality metrics and fitness for purpose.
  • Analyze production metrics and supplier dependencies to assess industrial-base risk.
  • Create early-warning indicators that signal potential production constraints or inefficiencies.
  • Build user-friendly visualizations such as dashboards and reports for diverse audiences.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define analytical questions and deliver actionable insights.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
  • ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Company Paid Short-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • 401K with employer match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Military Leave
  • Education, Training & Professional Development
Full Job Description
Position Title: Senior Data Analyst

Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia

Category: Contingent upon contract award

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: N/A

Shift: Day

Remote Type: In-Office

Clearance required: Top Secret required

Salary: $170,000 - $200,000

***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD***

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst to provide data integration, performance assessment, dashboards, visualization, and analytical support in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.

Responsibilities:

Data Integration and Management:
  • Identify, acquire, inventory, and integrate data from authorized Navy, Department of War, federal, industry, and commercial sources.
  • Develop data dictionaries, common definitions, metadata, lineage, validation rules, and repeatable processes for reconciling inconsistent datasets.
  • Create and maintain integrated production, supplier, infrastructure, workforce, economic, investment, and program-execution baselines.
  • Evaluate data completeness, accuracy, timeliness, comparability, and fitness for purpose; document assumptions, gaps, limitations, and confidence levels.
  • Support appropriate data access, handling, version control, auditability, and protection of classified, controlled, proprietary, and procurement-sensitive information.

Analysis and Decision Support:
  • Analyze production capacity, throughput, schedules, supplier performance, dependencies, investment needs, execution trends, and indicators of industrial-base risk.
  • Apply descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, statistical, geospatial, network, scenario, and sensitivity methods when appropriate to the question and available data.
  • Develop measures, thresholds, and early-warning indicators that reveal emerging constraints, supplier stress, execution risk, or ineffective interventions.
  • Conduct trend, variance, root-cause, comparative, and alternatives analyses and distinguish correlation, judgment, and supported causal conclusions.
  • Translate findings into clear recommendations, decision points, and follow-on data requirements for directors and senior DASN DIB leaders.

Visualization and Stakeholder Support:
  • Build executive dashboards, scorecards, charts, maps, supplier views, briefing graphics, and recurring analytical reports tailored to technical and nontechnical users.
  • Work with directors, program offices, systems commands, acquisition personnel, economists, engineers, and subject matter experts to define analytical questions and measures of success.
  • Present methods, assumptions, findings, limitations, and implications to senior leaders and respond rapidly to emerging data calls and decision-support needs.
  • Maintain analytical documentation and reproducible work products so results can be reviewed, updated, and traced to authoritative sources.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in data science, statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, engineering, computer science, business analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
  • 10+ years' experience in data analysis, business intelligence, operations research, industrial analysis, program analysis, or a closely related field.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating, cleaning, validating, reconciling, and analyzing complex data from multiple sources and documenting data quality and limitations.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and at least one analytical or visualization environment such as Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or an equivalent tool.
  • Experience developing dashboards, performance measures, executive visualizations, and analytical products that support senior-level decisions.
  • Ability to communicate technical methods and findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences and work across organizational boundaries.
  • Active Top Secret clearance required.

Benefits:
  • Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
  • ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Company Paid Short-Term Disability
  • Voluntary Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • 401K with employer match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Military Leave
  • Education, Training & Professional Development
  • Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
  • Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection


Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

  • If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you'll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.
  • If this position is listed as onsite, you'll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

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