Senior Implementation Engineer

Toffler Associates, Inc.

$90K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship is required
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields or 3-7 years of equivalent experience
  • Strong skills in SQL, Python, and/or R; familiarity with additional languages preferred
  • 6-10 years experience in national security analytics with expertise in research and data visualization
  • Excellent professional demeanor and adaptability in fast-paced environments
  • Strong problem-solving aptitude for open-ended issues in unstructured settings

Responsibilities

  • Develop expertise in client offerings and data while supporting customers
  • Execute software and data implementation and provide platform training
  • Conduct technical platform configuration and data integration using coding languages
  • Build and manage strong client relationships
  • Lead cross-functional teams and workstreams effectively
  • Collaborate with managers to capture market demand and user needs
  • Drive product utilization through targeted training and engagement strategies
  • Develop tailored documentation and conduct quantitative analytic research
  • Present data-driven findings concisely to internal teams and government stakeholders

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in Arlington, VA
  • 75% travel required to client sites across the U.S. and internationally
  • Opportunity to work closely with national security agencies
  • Engagement with cutting-edge data and analytics technologies
  • Possibility of mentoring and collaborating with skilled colleagues
  • Involvement in addressing significant national security challenges
Full Job Description
We are looking for motivated, curious, and data-driven individuals to join our team as Senior Implementation Engineers. Senior Implementation Engineers have a quantitative mindset and firm understanding of how to use technology and data to solve hard customer problems. Senior Implementation Engineers are responsible for developing new methodologies to answer client questions with data, leveraging quantitative skills to configure technology to achieve customer outcomes, communicate data-driven insights to executives in the national security community, and oversee cross-functional teams to produce compelling program insights, data visualization, and briefings.

In order to do this job well, you must be analytical, understand people, have a strong drive to use technology to solve the hardest problems, have business acumen, and want to learn everything, particularly about the most pressing national security challenges confronting the nation and how data and machine learning can help address them.

You understand the US Government and Defense acquisition processes and the importance of effective and efficient program management, supply chain risk management, and program and technology modernization. You ask hard, uncomfortable questions. You have a professional acumen that allows you to lead conversations with top government agency officials. You know there are always multiple answers to hard problems, and you know how to engage in a constructive dialogue to find the best path forward.

This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Arlington, VA.

This role requires 75% travel to client sites across the United States - CONUS and OCONUS

Scope of Responsibilities
  • Develop expertise with clients, offerings and data, and support customers as a product and data expert
  • Execute the successful implementation of software and data to our customers and provide platform training
  • Use coding languages (SQL, Python) to conduct technical platform configuration and data integration
  • Build and manage client relationships
  • Lead execution teams and/or workstreams
  • Collaborate with Engagement Managers and Product Managers to capture market demand and user needs for inclusion into offerings
  • Proactively drive utilization of the product using targeted training and engagement strategies that drive mission outcomes and analytical insights for platform users
  • Develop and maintain documentation such as tailored user guide reference materials
  • Conduct research and develop quantitative analytic reports using Company technology and data
  • Orally and visually present data-driven findings in a concise and compelling manner to internal teams, as well as government officials
  • Demonstrate knowledge in areas such as US Government programs and operations, federal acquisitions and program management, government procurement practices, supplier assurance, federal contracting, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE), Supply Chain Risk Management, and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analysis

Depending on your background and expertise, you could also be responsible for:
  • Provide technical workflow development and configuration
  • Communicate data-driven insights to executives in the national security space
  • Conduct in-depth quantitative and qualitative analyses on problems of importance to U.S. national security community using data visualization, compelling written paper and briefings
  • Provide product demonstrations in support of sales pursuits efforts
  • Mentor team members to increase skill and domain expertise

Qualifications
  • U.S. Citizenship is required
  • Bachelor's Degree in International Relations, Political Science, International Security, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or similar fields, or 3-7 years of equivalent experience

Required Skills:
  • Strong familiarity/skills with SQL, Python, and/or R. Familiarity with other skills such as Excel, React, Typescript, Java, C, GoLang
  • 6-10 years experience performing national security-related analytics; preference for research, quantitative analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization skills
  • Excellent professional demeanor with a willingness to work outside of your comfort zone in a fast-paced environment without hesitation
  • Strong aptitude for solving open-ended issues in unpredictable, unstructured environments
  • Bachelor's Degree in International Relations, Political Science, International
  • Security, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics,
  • Computer Science, Data Science or similar fields, or 3-7 years of equivalent experience

Desired Skills:
  • Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
  • Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
  • Master's degree in International Relations, Political Science, International Security, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or similar fields
  • 3-7 years of experience in user support or user engagement with a focus on platform and product utilization
  • Experience with advisory services, software-as-a-service (SaaS), information services, analytic tools, or data analytics industries
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct relevant business case studies and market analysis using internal and open-source data sources


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