Senior Nuclear Enterprise Systems Analyst

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.

Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.

Job Description

We have multiple openings for a Senior Nuclear Enterprise Analyst to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver software and analytic capabilities on topics of importance to the nuclear enterprise, including infrastructure, workforce, and stockpile modeling and modernization program planning. These positions support the Associate Program Leader for Nuclear Weapons Evaluation and Planning, within the Weapons Infrastructure Program and reports administratively to the System and Policy Analysis Group in the Computational Engineering Division, within the Engineering Directorate.

Depending on your assignment, these positions may offer a hybrid schedule, blending in-person and virtual presence. You may have the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week.

These positions will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

You will

• Work closely with a team of systems analysts, engineers, computer scientists, and program management to design and product ionize nuclear enterprise analytics tools, including those for current stockpile modernization programs.
• Translate ambiguous sponsor and customer problem statements into clear analytical objectives, success criteria, data requirements, and executable analysis plans.
• Lead and support efforts to collect, catalog, and interpret data for use in mathematical models, including population of databases and use of visualization tools.
• Develop and apply optimization, simulation, and risk-informed analysis methods, including scenario and sensitivity/uncertainty analyses, to support decision-making under uncertainty.
• Build and maintain effective collaborations and working relationships with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Department Of War (DOW) enterprise modeling communities, including assisting in engagement of relevant decision makers.
• Lead development of software tools such as native applications, dashboards, and web-based tools that support systems analysis, operations, nuclear stockpile, infrastructure, and workforce domains.
• Independently execute and perform quality assurance (QA) complex analyses and post-processing under limited direction, delivering tailored final reports and briefings that translate technical results into actionable decisions for senior sponsors.
• Participate in the Systems Analysis Group, Nuclear Enterprise Working Group, and engage other team members to share relevant knowledge, opinions, and recommendations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.
4 level

• Develop creative program growth opportunities through interactions with current and potential sponsors and creation of proposals.
• Serve as project coordinator and/or principal investigator for high-visibility efforts with competing priorities and loosely defined deliverables, establishing scope, milestones, decision points, and acceptance criteria to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
• Build and maintain senior-level collaborations with NNSA, DOW, and other stakeholders by directly engaging relevant decision makers and aligning concepts to national priorities.
• Build, lead, and manage multiple technical teams and supervise analysts to execute work, balance competing customer and partner priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Serve as prime consultant or technical point of contact to senior-level management and external sponsors by…