Operations Research Analyst, Senior

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis, data analytics, and data science to military decision-making and institutional processes.
• Develop and apply probability models, statistical inference, simulations, optimization, data analysis, and data visualization.
• Enable routinized creation and management of enterprise data products.
• Support analysis related to personnel management, doctrine and force development, system testing and acquisition, decision analysis, and resource management.
• Support analysis-based decision-making across the Total Force.

Required qualifications

• Experience in Operations Research and Systems Analysis supporting Army analytical missions at the Center for Army Analysis or analytics efforts at an Army Command, Army Service Component Command, or Direct Reporting Unit.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook; Microsoft Excel and Access; and Power BI tools.
• Experience coding in at least one of Ruby (R), Python, or Java.
• Knowledge of military training and operations.
• Ability to develop, present, and communicate analytical products and presentations for senior military officials.
• Secret clearance is required; applicants are subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for classified access.
• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

Preferred qualifications

• Army Operations Research and Systems Analysis Functional Area 49 experience is a plus.
• Leading an enterprise-level Army assessment program using Army data is a plus.
• Building and maintaining executive-level dashboards is a plus.
• Experience as a military or civilian ORSA action officer on the Headquarters, Department of the Army Staff is a plus.
• Top Secret clearance, a master's degree in mathematics, economics, operations research, data science, computer science, or statistics, or graduation from Command and General Staff College is a plus.

Compensation

• Projected annualized salary range is $69,400 to $158,000 USD.
• Compensation depends on factors including location, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, contract affordability, and organizational requirements.

Work model

• The posting describes a people-first work model emphasizing collaboration; the available source text does not specify the complete work arrangement.