Senior Analytic Methodologist

Prescient Edge is seeking a Sr. Analytic Methodologist to support a federal government client.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
• Salary range: $150,000 - $170,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Description:

• Supports the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of mission-driven requirements.
• Works with ambiguous information, deconstructs key questions, suggests methodologies, develops data schema to structured observations, and supports visualization of applicable data. Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production.
• Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production. Identifies, retrieves, manipulates, relates, and/or exploits structured data sets from all available sources.
• Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for repeatable, widely applicable procedures.
• Combines empirical or quantitative methods with data analysis for intelligence production of complex and data-driven assessments.
• Evaluates the capabilities and limitations of analytic methodologies.
• Shall support the development and application of analytic methodologies to facilitate the full range of analytic tasks from organizing and exploiting data to modeling probabilistic judgments.
• Shall deconstruct key questions to suggest appropriate methodologies and identifies and exploits relevant data sources.
• Shall evaluate a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to identify appropriate analytic applications, or, conversely, identifies analytic use cases to pilot new methods.
• Shall develop strategies to integrate quantitative methodologies into traditional or qualitative analysis.
• Shall develop tradecraft guidance and recommendations to ensure that methodologies comply with analytic tradecraft standards.

Job Requirements

Desired experiences :

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced. Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organization, and intelligence disciplines.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction.
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.
• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.
• Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.
• Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

Desired education:

• Master's Degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education: or have a bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related Senior experience for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the master's degree.

Security Clearance:

• Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY.

Location:

• Washington, DC (DIA HQ).

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization's success.