Hiring our Heroes Skillbridge - Operations Research Analyst Job Listing at SPA in Alexandria, VA (Job ID 2023-17291)

Description

Qualifications

Must be an active participant in the Hiring our Heroes Skillbridge Fellowship to be considered for the Externship.   

Required Qualifications

• Junior:
• Bachelor's degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis.
• Up to 5 years of professional experience 
• Mid:
• Bachelor's degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis.
• 5-15 years of professional experience.
• Senior:
• Master's degree in a field that involves quantitative analysis.
• 15+ years of professional experience.
• Secret Clearance
• Experience working as part of a team to solve a problem
• Experience is using a repeatable, transparent analytical process from problem formulation to an optimal solution

Desired Qualifications: 

• Top Secret Clearance
• Expertise briefing senior leaders to make decisions
• Expertise with at least one coding language like R, Python, VBA.
• Expertise in data visualization that goes beyond standard pie charts.  Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI or other data visualization software that can integrate disparate data sources and turn messy data into an easy to understand visualization that a decision maker wants in front of him/her to aid in decision making.
• Experience working with a government agency and experience using methodologies that support technology and investment decisions to improve national security mission success.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide advanced analytical support shadowing SPA customers in the national security and homeland defense mission spaces to make better decisions.  The candidate will be able to formulate the problem, construct a model, and derive a solution using qualitative and quantitative methods.  When necessary, the candidate may perform validation and verification on other performers work to ensure accuracy.  The candidate will be able approach a problem from both a data-centric and decision-centric conceptual framework, apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.  Operations Research is a very broad discipline and expertise is difficult to achieve in every facet of the field.  A successful candidate may not know everything but has an inquisitive mind, desire to broaden his/her skills, and is open to new, challenging problems that may stretch him/her to achieve success. Our goal is to provide you with a full-time offer once you have successfully completed your Skillbridge Externship.