Mantech

ManTech seeks a motivated, career- and customer-oriented Senior Data Analyst to join our innovative team in Ashburn, VA. This is a hybrid position with 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.
 

Each day U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) oversees the massive flow of people, capital, and products that enter and depart the United States via air, land, sea, and cyberspace. The volume and complexity of both physical and virtual border crossings require the application of “big data” solutions to promote efficient trade and travel.
 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform exploratory data analysis using statistical techniques to identify significant trends, patterns, correlations, and anomalies.
• Independently identify solutions for assigned business problems, and routinely collaborate with enterprise/application architects, database architects, data scientists, and mission stakeholders.
• Extract, clean, and transform data associated within an identified problem space to help build predictive models as well as develop appropriate supporting documentation.
• Leverage knowledge of a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Execute projects including those intended to identify patterns and/or anomalies.
• Research information as necessary.
• Brief project management, technical design, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences including senior stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle through written as well as virtual reporting.

Minimum Qualifications:

• HS Diploma/GED and 15-20 years, AS/AA and 13-18 years, BS/BA and 7-12 years, MS/MA/MBA, and 5-9 years, PhD/Doctorate and 3-7 years
• Proficiency using Python, R, Scala, or JavaScript and related packages for development and analysis.
• Experience working in field of entity resolution, analytics, data mining or name matching.
• Hands on experience with one or more relational database systems (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
• Hands on experience with SQL
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 to 12 years of experience or a master’s degree and 5 to 9 years of experience in business analytics, statistics, data science, information technology, economics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, physical science, engineering or a related field
• Proficiency in statistical modeling.
• A passion for low-level/embedded data/science analytics.
• Experience in cloud computing/cloud storage.
• Conceptual understanding of – and/or prior experiences related to – data profiling, fuzzy matching, entity resolution, and signal detection theory
• Prior National Targeting Center (NTC) experience, preferably with proficiency in operational data analysis.
• Experience working within an Agile development environment.  
   

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain DHS CBP suitability.
   

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with coworkers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.