Senior Operations Researcher — TS​/SCI Clearance; Poly

Operations Researcher, Senior Responsibilities

As an operations analyst, you’re passionate about exploring the root cause of an issue and then analyzing, reporting, and developing recommendations for a creative solution. You will help solve complex problems for our clients, assist with developing process improvement solutions, and create applications and tools to enhance productivity. You’ll guide a team to develop study plans, conduct research, create models and tools, brief decision makers, and write reports.

You will use analytics and statistics to devise modeling and measuring techniques, utilizing mathematics, statistical methods, engineering methods, operational mathematics techniques such as linear programming, simulation, task automation, and other scientific and economic principles. You will use your operations research knowledge to develop technologies and concepts that advance efficiencies for IC and DoD customers.

• 10+ years of experience with conducting analysis of management and operational problems using operations research techniques
• 4+ years of experience with the application of modeling and simulation to address decision analysis problems
• 4+ years of experience conducting multiple objective decision analysis or cost benefit analysis in support of research objectives
• 4+ years of experience with PANDAS, R, Excel and VBA, ARENA, OCTAVE, Tableau, Gurobi and CPLEX, EXTENDSIM, SAS, NETICA, stats models, Stata, MATLAB, or SPSS
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) field

• Experience with 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 with the use of machine learning and large language models to solve complex problems
• Master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (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.

The projected compensation range for this position is $69,400.00 to $ (annualized USD), but salary is determined by location, education, skills, and experience. The range represents the typical salary range for this position and is one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package.

Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work‑life programs, and dependent care. Full‑time and part‑time employees working at least 20 hours a week qualify for benefit programs.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.