Business Analyst

Thank you for your interest in joining the JDSAT team. hatch I.T. is facilitating the recruitment process, so please continue your application here for the Business Analyst role! All openings are full-time with JDSAT.
About the Role:JDSAT is looking for an enthusiastic, self-driven, and experienced Business Analyst. The qualified candidate must have the requisite educational background. The ideal candidate will be a proven dynamic leader with experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse technical, managerial, and administrative staff to ensure successful outcomes for strategic-level programs that are characterized by numerous concurrent projects or work streams. The ideal candidate will be a superb communicator and strategic thinker who is capable of distilling complex information into decision-generating insight for senior government executives up to the congressional level. The ideal candidate will be an excellent oral and written communicator who is capable of framing project-level approaches and translating technical material into decision-generating insights for clients who may not have similar technical expertise.This position requires a SECRET clearance or demonstrated ability to obtain such clearance. Although being on-site in Fairfax, VA is desirable, this position is open to hybrid work.
About the CompanyJDSAT, Inc. is a solutions company - utilizing data, mathematics, and software to create solutions tailored to each organization’s needs. They don’t believe a homogenized solution can address complex problems. They direct the design, iteration, and development of custom tools based upon each project’s unique landscape. They build their products the same way they built their company—with people in mind. All their employees are committed to maintaining and continuing to build a culture of inclusivity, positivity, and growth.
At JDSAT, you will be joining a collaborative and energetic team with excellent career development opportunities. You will sharpen your knowledge on challenging projects with a great deal of autonomy while operating alongside other talented Operations Research and Data Science professionals. They like to cultivate their talent and promote from within by offering a variety of leadership and advancement opportunities throughout the company. They offer a competitive compensation and benefits package along with a commitment to a healthy work/life balance and meaningful work to support their employees and their clients.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a data analytics team delivering technical solutions that meet client requirements to create dynamic data visualizations and analysis tools to enable informed decision making.
• Work with clients, managers, and technical staff to understand business needs and translate these needs into analytical solutions.
• Aid in monitoring the maintenance of developed products to ensure products meet customer requirements.
• Summarize complex data/information in written, spoken, and visual communications for an executive audience.
• Possess ability to lead others to conduct exploratory analysis and data visualization.
• Support implementation of proof of concepts to deploy analytical methods and validate modeling assumptions.
• Construct products that communicate technical and functional areas to clients such as briefings (oral and written), white papers, and reports.
• Assist in applying common best practices for analytics to the customer and to identify relevant issues and considerations in selecting and implementing applications.
• Identify innovative solutions, inadequacies, and/or deficiencies that affect the team’s ability to advance project goals.

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Bachelor’s (or higher) in Business Analytics, Business, Business Administration, Project or Program Management, Government Administration, Health Administration, Economics, STEM, or related discipline combined with a minimum of four (4) years' experience supporting federal programs as a general schedule (GS) employee or contractor.
• Familiarity with data visualizations (Excel, Tableau, etc.).
• Experience extracting, transforming, and loading data using SQL and relational databases.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Outstanding problem-solving ability.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Experience supporting projects with an Agile/Scrum workflow.
• Experience working with DoD health agencies.
• Strong ability to document efficient methodologies and frameworks.
• Ability to prepare and maintain documentation pertaining to programming, systems operation, and user documentation.
• Comfortable with quickly preparing and communicating presentations, leading client working groups and government senior-level staff engagements.
• Experience with creating intuitive data visualizations in Tableau.
• Familiarity with Python and SAS.