Operations Research / Systems Analyst (ORSA) - Data Engineering and Analytics (5406) at SMX

<div class="ui-form-item ui-form-item-horizontal" data-direction="horizontal"> <div class="ui-form-field lifesuite__rte--display"> <div class="ui-form-field lifesuite__rte--display"> <p>The Operations Research (OR) Analyst - Data Engineering &amp; Analytics Focus provides advanced data integration, architecture, and analytics capabilities to enable quantitative analysis across a Federal Agency's personnel vetting, industrial security, and counterintelligence operations. This position is responsible for transforming disparate, complex data sources into unified analytical datasets that enable the Federal Agency to transition from reactive reporting toward proactive, mathematically grounded forecasting and optimization.</p> <p><strong>Essential Duties &amp; Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><u>Data Integration &amp; Architecture</u></p> <ul> <li>Design and implement data architectures that integrate information from multiple disparate source systems supporting personnel vetting, industrial security, and counterintelligence missions</li> <li>Build and maintain ETL pipelines that extract, transform, and load data from heterogeneous sources including relational databases, flat files, APIs, and legacy systems</li> <li>Develop entity resolution approaches to link person, company, and facility records across systems that lack common unique identifiers</li> <li>Create reusable data integration frameworks that accommodate changes in source system schemas and evolving business rules</li> </ul> <p><u>Data Quality &amp; Validation</u></p> <ul> <li>Develop data quality frameworks that assess completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of source data</li> <li>Implement data validation processes that identify and handle missing data, duplicates, temporal inconsistencies, and conflicting information</li> <li>Document data provenance, transformations, quality metrics, and known limitations to ensure analytical reproducibility</li> <li>Collaborate with system owners and data stewards to resolve data quality issues at the source</li> </ul> <p><u>Analytics &amp; Visualization</u></p> <ul> <li>Apply statistical analysis and exploratory data analysis to understand operational patterns and trends within integrated datasets</li> <li>Develop interactive dashboards and visualization products that communicate complex data insights to technical and non-technical audiences</li> <li>Translate data findings into objective, data-driven insights that support strategic and operational decision-making</li> <li>Create data marts and analysis-ready datasets optimized for specific use cases (process modeling, risk assessment, resource optimization)</li> </ul> <p><u>Collaboration &amp; Support</u></p> <ul> <li>Partner with modeling/simulation and optimization specialists to define analytical dataset requirements</li> <li>Support advanced analytics by providing clean, well-documented, empirically grounded datasets</li> <li>Participate in cross-functional team activities to maintain technical standards and share knowledge</li> <li>Adapt analytical approaches to work within data availability constraints while maintaining analytical rigor</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Required Skills/Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of progressive, hands-on operations research or data analytics experience, including demonstrated application of statistical analysis, data integration, and quantitative methods to real-world operational problems</li> <li>3–5 years of that experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community mission areas such as personnel vetting, industrial security (NISP), counterintelligence, or insider threat</li> <li>Expert-level proficiency in SQL and relational database design, including complex queries, joins, subqueries, and performance optimization</li> <li>Demonstrated, hands-on proficiency in an analytical programming language (Python or R), including libraries for data manipulation (pandas, dplyr), analysis, and visualization</li> <li>Proven experience building ETL pipelines and data integration workflows across multiple disparate data sources</li> <li>Experience with data architecture for analytics (data warehousing, dimensional modeling, data lakes)</li> <li>Experience assessing and improving data quality in complex, multi-source operational environments</li> <li>Ability to translate technical data challenges into clear communication for non-technical stakeholders</li> <li>Experience working with data in secure (classified) government environments</li> <li>Secret clearance required (active or ability to obtain)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Desired Skills/Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Advanced degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative discipline</li> <li>Familiarity with NISP, clearance adjudication processes, and/or insider threat/counterintelligence analytic frameworks</li> <li>Experience with entity resolution, record linkage, and master data management techniques</li> <li>Familiarity with both legacy government systems and modern cloud-based data architectures</li> <li>Experience with version control and collaborative development (Git/GitHub)</li> <li>Knowledge of data governance frameworks, metadata management, and data cataloging</li> <li>Experience with big data technologies (Spark, distributed computing)</li> <li>Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Neo4j, graph databases)</li> <li>Data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Plotly, D3.js)</li> <li>Experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Luigi)</li> <li>API development and integration experience (REST, SOAP)</li> <li>Knowledge of queueing theory, statistical modeling, or optimization methods to better support analytical consumers</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>&nbsp;</p> <hr> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;">The SMX salary determination process takes into account a number of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories, relevant prior work experience, specific skills, education and certifications. At SMX, one of our Core Values is to Invest in Our People so we offer a competitive mix of compensation, learning &amp; development opportunities, and benefits. Some key components of our robust benefits include health insurance, paid leave, and retirement.</span></p></div><div class="title">The proposed salary for this position is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$123,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$185,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>At SMX®, we are a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling your mission. From priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare, we understand that digital transformation is key to your future success.</p> <p>We share your vision for the future and strive to accelerate your impact on the world. We bring both cutting edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Our delivery model and unique approaches harness our deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration.</p> <p>SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans.</p> <p><span data-teams="true"><span id="message-body-1758638857922" class="fui-ChatMyMessage__body rcngbzt ___eyw0iv0 f10pi13n ftqa4ok f2hkw1w f8hki3x f1d2448m f1bjia2o ffh67wi f1j6vpng f1pniga2 f987i1v f1ffjurs f15bsgw9 f14e48fq f18yb2kv fd6o370 ffwy5si f3znvyf f57olzd f4stah7 f480a47 fs1por5 fk6fouc figsok6 fkhj508 f19n0e5 f9ijwd5 fzqqayd f10ostut f1o0qvyv f9ggezi f1xp5gbu f150uoa4 ffyari3 fo7qwa0 f16xkysk fxowb0n f11ghf3q f13aoclr flypziy f10kwr27 fquw1qa fftr39l f13lathq f15hsm81 f2ss68y ffb60jq f8nuap2 f13nk4fk f7jacry fq08z5q fd9af6s fr74w9q fcl9uv6 f13sm7pj f1u6qqly f16wpxbl faim3u9 f6cs3qo fa2w2z3 fd39nx6 f10gn8j9 frcqmxy f1w9ws4k f1ddxkqj fd10euv fvuz61 f1nbc6gw"><span id="content-1758638857922" class="fui-Primitive ___16zla5h f1oy3dpc fqtknz5 fyvcxda"></span></span></span></p> <div id="x_Signature"></div> <p>Selected applicant may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification.</p> <p>SMX does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).</p></div>