Junior Data Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking highly motivated, performance-driven individuals with strong data analytics/data science backgrounds to work closely with our Federal and Department of Defense (DoD) clients. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the ability to contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman's portfolios. This role consists of designing, developing, and deploying business analytics products, including decision/scenario analysis and interactive dashboards. This position is hybrid based out of the Stafford, VA area or Arlington, VA.

A career with Kalman & Company, Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst, you will work with military leaders, engineers, developers, technicians, logisticians, and financial managers to solve continuously evolving challenges across multiple academic domains and industries and help ensure the successful deployment of capabilities that are critical to the United States DoD and our allies.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, update, manipulate, and maintain data models and dashboards in support of emerging capabilities and priority programs
• Identify opportunities and implement methodologies to streamline/automate reporting processes
• Collaborate with colleagues and government stakeholders to define data collection strategies, normalize and analyze complex data, establish data architectures, and develop and test predictive models and trend analysis from enterprise-level data sets
• Interpret analysis results using advanced statistical and/or visualization techniques and produce reports to meet client and/or business needs
• Prepare briefing materials and other communication packages presenting analysis results to management at the executive and oversight levels
• Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals
• Effectively communicate analysis to government stakeholders
• Thoroughly understand the customer mission and provide innovative ideas to address their business challenges

Required Skills/Abilities

• US Citizenship
• Ability to obtain a government-issued Security Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree in any field and successful completion of twenty-one semester hours in operations research, economics, math, chemistry, physics, or other sciences where the utilization of advanced math skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, or quantitative analyses was required
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multi-task under minimal supervision
• Experience utilizing advanced mathematical and/or statistical methods and creating/maintaining databases/dashboards
• Strong interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to contribute effectively to working groups through oral and written communication
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Benefits:

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the Government's most challenging analytical problems by developing decision analyses for military and civilian leaders
• Support the Business Analytics team via a flexible working structure that balances each employee's lifestyle while providing opportunities for in-person client and team engagement
• Join a diverse, inclusive, and growing team that fosters a supportive and encouraging environment to explore a variety of unique projects and clients for career success and fulfillment
• Take advantage of a competitive salary along with a generous benefits package and paid opportunities for learning and professional development as well as on-the-job training and growth