Sr Operations Research​/Systems Analyst

Overview

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Sr Operations Research / Systems Analyst

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

Come join the ITEA award winning TRMC BDKM team and be a part of the team responsible for revolutionizing how data analysis is performed across the entire Department of Defense.

The successful candidate will be part of the K  team supporting the Test Resource Management Center’s (TRMC) Big Data (BD) and Knowledge Management (KM) Team working on BD and KM systems supporting DoD Test Ranges and various acquisition programs.

• Data Driven Analysis:
  Support customers with insights from analyzing DoD Test & Evaluation data. Enable development of data-driven decision analysis products using data science, machine learning, and operations research to provide robust testing and evaluation capabilities for DoD modernization.
• Data Mining:
  Experience with data mining/analysis methods, accessing data in various storage paradigms, developing models with statistical and ML approaches, using and creating custom algorithms, implementing analysis workflows in Python or R, and writing reports/documentation.
• Analytic
  
  Experience:
  
  Provide analytic consulting services, support analytic workflow/product development/testing, promote user adoption of data science methods, conduct applied methods projects, and create analysis-ready data. Identify opportunities for process/workflow optimization.
• Customer-Facing
  
  Experience:
  
  Be the face of the CHEETAS Team and ensure stakeholders have the analytical tools, data products and reports to make insightful recommendations.
• Stakeholder Assistance:
  Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify analytic requirements and analysis questions informed by large data sets from test events or exercises.
• Communication:
  Drive decisions through written or oral communication of data-based insights; communicate effectively at programmatic and technical levels.
• Technical Support:
  Possess extensive technical expertise in operations research methods and DoD problems. Work with CHEETAS and related tools; demonstrate tools to stakeholders and VIPs; tailor internally-developed tools/reports to emerging needs; gather use cases and requirements; provide feature requests/bug reports to development; and perform end-user training, potentially troubleshooting in closed networks without internet access (with distributed team support).
• Independent Work:
  Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal supervision; experience testing the effectiveness of different courses of action.

• Location:
  
  Remote
• Travel: 25% with potential surge to 50% to support end users at DoD labs and ranges across the US. When not onsite, can work remotely or from a nearby K  office (if available).
• Working Hours:
  
  Standard; may be the only team member on-site at times, but you will not be alone.

• Security Clearance:
  Active TS/SCI clearance
• Education:
  
  Advanced degree in operations research, engineering, applied math, statistics, computer science or information technology with preferred 12+ years of experience within DoD.
• DOD
  
  Experience:
  
  5-10 years of DoD experience considered on a case-by-case basis.
• Experience:
  
  Working with end users, gathering requirements, refining/operating data analysis tools, developing and interpreting analytic products with DoD data types.

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