Data Analyst

Data Analyst

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:

CACI is currently looking for a Data Analyst with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints.

Responsibilities:

·       Help customers and mission users conceptualize and prioritize their data analysis and visualization needs.

·       Collaborate with teams across the organization to help prioritize competing analytic needs and incrementally develop new and optimized capabilities.

·       Work on unusually complicated problems and provide solutions that are highly creative, exhibiting creativity and resourcefulness.

·       Evaluating existing data sets and reporting architectures to identify strategic gaps and apply modern technologies to creatively achieve superior mission outcomes.

·       Apply your skills in various development languages to create or augment business and operational intelligence tools to detect trends, patterns, and non-obvious relationships in large, complex, and disparate data sets.

·       Lead across teams and organizations as a responsible, team-oriented individual with outstanding written and verbal communication skills and work ethic.

·       Promote Agile culture and functional decomposition

·       Identify new portfolio business value innovations and opportunities

Qualifications:

Required: 

·       Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria includes but is not limited to:

o   3 year check for felony convictions

o   1 year check for illegal drug use

o   1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud

·       7+ years of professional experience working on complex data challenges in the areas of data architecture and engineering, data science, data analysis and visualization, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or related discipline.

·       Tool preferences include the following data analytic solutions: IBM Cognos, Qlik, PowerBI

·       Database skillset for AWS RDS concepts, and understanding of database principles used by tools such as Databricks, Oracle, and Informatica ETL

·       Previous experience as an Enterprise-level Data Architect, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, or Data Analyst.

·       College degree (B.S.) in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

 
Desired:

·       5-10 years of DHS, DoD, or IC experience working in complex data environments, including the architecture and optimization of data sche