Operations Research Analyst, Senior

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As an operations analyst, you’re passionate about exploring the root cause of an issue and then analysing, reporting, and developing recommendations for a creative solution. We need an experienced research analyst like you to help us solve complex problems for our clients. On our analysis and application development team, you'll help solve complex analytical problems, assist with developing process improvement solutions, and create applications and tools to enhance productivity.

You won’t go at it alone, you will help guide a team to develop study plans, conduct research, create models and tools, brief decision makers, and write reports.

In this role, you’ll use your passion for analytics and statistics to devise modelling and measuring techniques utilising mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, and operational mathematics techniques such as linear programming, simulation, task automation, and other principles and laws of scientific and economic disciplines.

Use your operations research knowledge to develop technologies and concepts that advance efficiencies for IC and DoD customers.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 5+ years of experience conducting analysis of management and operational problems using operations research techniques
• 1+ years of experience with the application of modelling and simulation to address decision analysis problems
• 1+ years of experience conducting multiple objective decision analysis or cost benefit analysis in support of research objectives
• 1+ years of experience with pandas, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, Octave, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, Extend Sim, SAS, Netica, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSS
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field

• Experience developing and performing verification and validation of models to ensure adequacy
• Experience developing and delivering training materials for operations research techniques
• Experience conducting problem definition and gathering data requirements from stakeholders
• Experience briefing results and preparing written reports on analytic approaches and methodologies
• Experience using machine learning and large language models to solve complex problems
• Master’s degree in a STEM field

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract‑specific affordability and organisational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $69,400.00 to $ (annualised USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one…