Data Analyst Senior

Lockheed Martin Corporation offers a hybrid work arrangement in Lexington, KY for a Senior Data Analyst who translates raw data into actionable insights, identifies new data sources, applies statistical methods, and delivers dashboards and narrative visualizations to support business and risk management decisions while upholding data governance.

This role thrives in a collaborative, data-driven environment and focuses on turning complex analytics into clear, business-ready outcomes that support strategic decisions and governance.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive benefits
• Flexible schedules

Responsibilities

• Source and bring in new internal and external data streams to enrich analyses.
• Pull, cleanse, and preprocess data from databases, APIs, and scraped sources, preserving data quality.
• Leverage structured datasets to address concrete business problems once data architectures are in place.
• Integrate data from diverse sources to yield new insights; design and implement custom algorithms and data flows for large enterprise datasets used in modeling, data mining, and research.
• Apply statistical and mathematical methods to large datasets to reveal trends, patterns, and risk signals.
• Translate results into concise business narratives, visuals, and interactive dashboards, including Power BI Report Server.
• Define data requirements, specifications, and data sources to inform actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with systems analysts, engineers, and developers to design applications that validate source data and findings.
• Detect hidden patterns and relationships, dissect problems, and explore connections across disparate data.
• Create and maintain KPI dashboards delivering real time performance insights for stakeholders.
• Generate regular analytical reports and ad hoc analyses to support decision making.
• Derive strategic insights from large data sets and present data in engaging formats.
• Communicate technical findings to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Contribute to the Data Governance Working Group.
• QA data scraping and query processes; triage and resolve data issues promptly.
• Document data lineage, metadata, and analytical methodology in line with governance standards.
• Develop data standards, policies, and procedures; design and implement data mining and data warehousing programs.
• Elicit functional and technical requirements from business owners and translate them into analytic solutions.
• Manage key analytics tasks and resources to meet cost, schedule, and quality objectives.
• Run queries and develop algorithms to analyze data structures and integrate data from multiple tool sources.
• Utilize IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Oracle/SQL Server, SAP, Deltek COBRA, SharePoint, Teamcenter, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• Experience designing solutions with awareness of networking concepts, protocols, network security methodologies, cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and cybersecurity principles.
• Knowledge of data administration, data standardization policies, and standards.
• Applied experience in data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, and AI theory.
• Understanding of network access, identity and access management, including PKI.
• Familiarity with programming language structures and query languages such as SQL and object oriented design.
• Knowledge of secure coding techniques.

Technologies

• IBM Cloud Pak for Data
• Oracle/SQL Server
• SAP
• Deltek COBRA
• SharePoint
• Teamcenter
• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Power BI Report Server
• SQL, Python, PowerShell, PERL, VBS
• Excel, STATA, SAS, SPSS

Security and clearance

This position requires a government security clearance; US citizenship is required for consideration. Clearance level: Secret.

Job details

• Experience level: Experienced Professional
• Business unit: MISSILES AND FIRE CTRL (S0806)
• Career area: Data Science
• Type: Task Order/IDIQ
• Shift: First
• Education: Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred
• Location: Lexington, KY (hybrid)

Other important information

• Expression of Interest: Applying indicates interest and may be considered for other openings with similar requirements; you may be contacted for related opportunities.
• Ability to work remotely: Part-time remote telework; part of the schedule on-site at a Lockheed Martin facility; specifics discussed during hiring.
• Work schedules: A variety of alternate work schedules are supported, including condensed weeks; these supplements to paid time off benefits.
• Schedule for this position: Non-standard 40 hour work week as assigned by the leader.
• Equity and inclusion: Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer; qualified candidates are considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
• Application window: 90 days from posting; for optimal consideration, apply within 5 to 30 days of the requisition posting date.
• Relocation: Possible