Sr Data Analyst
Job Description
Infotrend is hiring a Sr Data Analyst for an onsite role in Washington, DC to extract, validate, and analyze large federal datasets in a highly secure environment.
Responsibilities
- Work with large datasets and multiple data types (customer, operational, transactional) in federal government enterprise systems to develop, maintain, and improve reports, analyses, and models
- Extract data from IT systems using SQL and other programming languages
- Manage, review, validate, and secure data ingestion processes to support accurate, complete, timely, and controlled transfer of data into a highly secure government data environment
- Create clean, structured datasets for reporting, analyses, studies, and both AI/ML and non-AI/ML modeling initiatives
- Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows for structured and unstructured data
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research using client data, including hypothesis formulation, testing, and clear results presentation
- Apply advanced statistical techniques to identify and measure trends, anomalies, and other meaningful insights
- Build visualizations and tools that enable users to interact with data
Requirements
- Expertise in Python and/or R, SQL, and Databricks or similar software
- Ability to understand complex data structures quickly and write queries to extract required information
- Ability to build simple and complex analytical, statistical, AI/ML, or other models from client data to meet quantitative objectives
- Experience integrating large datasets and ETL workflows with Business Intelligence (BI) platforms such as Tableau, including preparing, optimizing, and exposing data for visualization, analytics, and reporting
- Experience developing and managing data connections between Databricks, SQL-based data sources, Python workflows, and Tableau, ensuring reliable, performant, and scalable delivery for dashboards and automated reporting
- Ability to understand operational details underlying data in enterprise systems
- Ability to quickly understand client business requirements using methods such as interviews, document analysis, and self-directed research
- Analytical mindset with the ability to investigate root causes
- Ability to engage in multiple initiatives and prioritize appropriately
- Ability to gather and interpret large volumes of data, identify what is relevant versus superfluous using analytical and statistical techniques
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Security Clearance
- U.S. Citizenship
Technologies
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Databricks
- Tableau