Senior Data Analyst at ACT1 Federal in Arlington, VA

Job description

• Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst to provide data integration, performance assessment, dashboards, visualization, and analytical support in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.

Responsibilities

• Identify, acquire, inventory, and integrate data from authorized Navy, Department of War, federal, industry, and commercial sources.
• Develop data dictionaries, common definitions, metadata, lineage, validation rules, and repeatable processes for reconciling inconsistent datasets.
• Create and maintain integrated production, supplier, infrastructure, workforce, economic, investment, and program-execution baselines.
• Evaluate data completeness, accuracy, timeliness, comparability, and fitness for purpose; document assumptions, gaps, limitations, and confidence levels.
• Support appropriate data access, handling, version control, auditability, and protection of classified, controlled, proprietary, and procurement-sensitive information.
• Analyze production capacity, throughput, schedules, supplier performance, dependencies, investment needs, execution trends, and indicators of industrial-base risk.
• Apply descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, statistical, geospatial, network, scenario, and sensitivity methods when appropriate to the question and available data.
• Develop measures, thresholds, and early-warning indicators that reveal emerging constraints, supplier stress, execution risk, or ineffective interventions.
• Conduct trend, variance, root-cause, comparative, and alternatives analyses and distinguish correlation, judgment, and supported causal conclusions.
• Translate findings into clear recommendations, decision points, and follow-on data requirements for directors and senior DASN DIB leaders.
• Build executive dashboards, scorecards, charts, maps, supplier views, briefing graphics, and recurring analytical reports tailored to technical and nontechnical users.
• Work with directors, program offices, systems commands, acquisition personnel, economists, engineers, and subject matter experts to define analytical questions and measures of success.
• Present methods, assumptions, findings, limitations, and implications to senior leaders and respond rapidly to emerging data calls and decision-support needs.
• Maintain analytical documentation and reproducible work products so results can be reviewed, updated, and traced to authoritative sources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in data science, statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, engineering, computer science, business analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in data analysis, business intelligence, operations research, industrial analysis, program analysis, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience integrating, cleaning, validating, reconciling, and analyzing complex data from multiple sources and documenting data quality and limitations.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and at least one analytical or visualization environment such as Python, R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or an equivalent tool.
• Experience developing dashboards, performance measures, executive visualizations, and analytical products that support senior-level decisions.
• Ability to communicate technical methods and findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences and work across organizational boundaries.
• Active Top Secret clearance required.

Skills

Required

• Microsoft Excel
• Python
• R
• SQL
• Power BI
• Tableau

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection