Data Analyst

On-site Location: Springfield, VA | On-Site

Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to successfully complete a CI-Polygraph examination

Elder Research Inc. is a recognized leader in data science, machine learning and AI. We pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. We are looking for innovative and inquisitive self-starters who enjoy understanding a problem space and building fast, efficient, and tractable data infrastructure to deliver real value for our clients.

As a Data Analyst, you will support robust and repeatable data manipulation and stunning data visualization for custom client applications.

Essential Functions:

• Ability to work on-site for 36-40 hours during a typical week
• Experience supporting the geospatial intelligence mission space
• At least 6 years of relevant experience*

* Relevant experience includes military service, education (Associates+), specialized training, internships, apprenticeships, and professional civilian work experience. Credit is also provided for relevant professional publications, presentations, and leadership roles in related organizations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time
• Problem-solving aptitude
• Ability and the willingness to tailor applications to a client’s business goals using an iterative methodology
• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing to teammates and clients
• Data fluency including data manipulation, data understanding and the ability to identify issues with data.
• Primarily focused on task execution (rather than task definition)
• Often focuses on data manipulation and understanding
• Contributes to technical tasks and proactively looks for growth and learning opportunities
• Starts developing experience using one or more tools, platforms, algorithms, and languages

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrate familiarity with data transformation (ETL) – aggregations, transformations, loading (academic or brief experience).
• Exposure to data wrangling, dashboards and visualization of large datasets using commercial or open-source tools
• Interacted with SQL or NoSQL databases via a programming language such as R, Python, Java, JavaScript
• Understanding of databases and database designs
• Perform other technical tasks as needed, including writing project reports, managing, implementing, and/or maintaining technical infrastructure, etc.
• Familiarity with data analytics/data science methods and tools – exploratory data analysis, text analytics, Natural Language Processing (academic or brief experience).
• Interacted with Python, R, SQL, Git, AWS Sagemaker, or SAS.

About Elder Research, Inc.

Elder Research is a growing consulting firm specializing in data (analytics, data science, AI and machine learning), and related strategy and training. Our organization has over 25 years of experience and 100+ practitioners that have partnered with hundreds of organizations to achieve significant value through innovative applications of data, analytics, and people-centered processes. We are tackling hard problems, big and small, where off-the-shelf solutions don’t work or don’t exist. To achieve success, we value humble, hardworking teammates with the ability to be flexible, think critically and experiment.

At Elder Research, you’ll be part of a fun, friendly, and supportive community where we need each other to succeed, your point of view matters, and asking questions with a beginner’s mindset is applauded. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates that are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work ethic. We are constantly learning and offer teammates free access to a wide range of learning opportunities including Elder’s own platform statistics.com and technical mentors or sponsors. Broadening and deepening your technical and consulting skills both on the job and off is something we are passionate about, and we pay you to do it.

To achieve success on defense, intelligence, and security work we frequently bring together the expertise of decision-makers, analysts, agents, investigators, and even behavioral scientists. Our team enjoys great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of analytic techniques and tools.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.