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Big Data Analyst

Herndon, VA💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Evaluate and assess large-scale datasets to inform government decision-making and support special operations analysts.

Role type

Senior Big Data Analyst (Intelligence/Defense)

Builds

Analytic applications and data evaluation processes for mission support

Domain

National Security / Intelligence / Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark, data evaluation, technical telemetry analysis, telecommunication protocol analysis, gap identification, process formulation

Preferred skills

Geospatial analysis, Activity-Based Intelligence, Pattern of Life analysis, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Zeppelin, Gitlab, SDLC

Responsibilities

Perform dataset evaluations and assessments to inform government decision making; Shape data engineering approaches for analytic tradecraft improvements; Identify and document gaps within data corpus and analytical capabilities; Work with software developers to field requirements and validate technical implementation; Provide SME support to end-users for data or application questions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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