Data Analyst

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Data Analyst to join our team in Springfield, VA. This is a full-time onsite position. The Data Analyst shall support the maintenance of data holdings, ensure compliance to data standards, and perform quantitative analysis of data. Data analysis will involve transforming data, developing visuals to assist with data understanding, and conducting analysis to make recommendations on data strategies to improve Machine Learning (ML) model development.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaboration to enhance workflows, automate standard processes, and create efficient processes that result in greater preprocessing productivity.
• Lead and conduct projects using advanced mathematical, statistical, and scientific techniques and principles to examine complex missions and operational problems and create insights from data.
• Support data analytics, data cleaning, analyst workflow efficiencies, and transformation supporting Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities.
• Apply statistical and analytic methods to support answering intelligence questions, mission requirements, and advanced data analysis.
• Build lightweight analytic tools to visualize data metrics and assess progress of data preprocessing efforts against Government goals
• Design methods and mechanisms to track, report, and monitor data in order to ensure pipeline movements are timely and support all necessary processes.
• Develop system to provide automated checks on data and processes to guarantee continuous pipeline support.
• Ingest and rectify non-standard data and data in formats that are new within the Data Management Platform (DMP), for integration and curation.
• Generate and manage data dictionaries to ensure information stays updated as data tables change
• Provide data analysis expertise for assistance in determining if imagery curation techniques and strategies are effective in identifying images of value (e.g., containing objects of interest or specific imagery characteristics)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience; BA can account for 3 years while a MA/MS can account for an added 2 years of experience.
• Experience preparing data, performing statistical analysis, and applying tools and algorithms to gain insights from large, complex geospatial datasets.
• Experience with programming languages and tools such as Python, R, SQL, GIS, or Tableau.
• Experience developing visualizations to communicate analytical results and to assist technical and non-technical audiences in understanding information from large datasets.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in AI/ML-relevant fields related to imagery exploitation

Clearance Requirements:

·        An active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph

Physical Requirements:

·       Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods while performing imagery analysis and reporting.

·       Must be able to occasionally move about the work area to collaborate with team members and access mission systems.