ECS is seeking a Data Visualization Analyst to work in our Arlington, VA office.

ECS is seeking a passionate and driven visualization-focused data analyst to help our public sector customer secure the federal civilian IT enterprise, specifically focusing on the cybersecurity health of High Value Assets. Strong candidates will take advantage of modern approaches to business analysis, user centered design (UCD), information presentation, and the use of data analytics to improve client mission outcomes. This front line, operationally focused, client facing consultant develops deep understanding of the client’s mission and priorities, anticipates client needs, and translates them into mission-impactful analytics questions that can be addressed by data analytics using data available in the operational environment. Collaborating with other data ECS colleagues and co-contractor peers, the ideal candidate builds out polished information (data) presentations — dashboards, excel files, other media as appropriate — that are intuitively comprehensible for “regular people”, those without the word “data” in their job titles.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assemble and maintain a holistic point of view about the client’s mission and operations. Document this perspective using industry standard business analysis methods.
• Decompose this holistic perspective into a portfolio of distinct, separable use cases addressable by analytics. Work with client stakeholders to prioritize portfolio elements in terms of mission benefit. Consult data technology peers to estimate technical complexity for each.
• Sequentially and incrementally build out information visualization use cases according to an Agile-like delivery methodology. Apply user centered design methods to achieve information visualization solutions that are fit to the way that client stakeholders perform their missions. Make optimum use of data analytics and visualization tools available in client’s tightly security-constrained IT environment.
• Respond to ad hoc client needs arising from a dynamic, continually changing operating tempo. Reprioritize work activities on the fly and clearly and proactively communicate the resulting impacts to stakeholders awaiting other deliverables in backlog.

Required Skills:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust Suitability
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, engineering, or other relevant discipline.
• 5 years front-line technology consulting experience with a proven track record of delivering data analytics work products that address questions and decisions of central importance to clients’ missions.
• Fluency in leading approaches to user-centered design (UCD). Implementation and execution of repeatable UCD methods that capture analytics consumers operations and inject relevant information into them.
• Experience generating data products and reports that organize data analysis in a consumable format for a broad range of stakeholders, including interactive data visualizations and infographics.
• Proven ability in using tools like Tableau, PowerBI, kibana, and Grafana to present mission information in intuitive, useful interfaces. Realization of user journeys and workflows through mission information (data) that allow analytics consumers to quickly navigate through a sequence of questions.
• Proficiency with analytics information assembly via relational databases and other structured-information technologies. Fluency in SQL with the ability to quickly construct queries from denormalized and normalized data structures.
• Keen understanding of the value of data quality and its importance to effective data analytics. Ability to articulate essential quality aspects of available data to clients and limitations of what can be learned from them.

Desired Skills:

• Business and logical data modeling. Ability to recognize mission-essential information in operational activities and procedures. Experience in systematically deconstructing information into distinct domains in the form of conceptual data models.
• Conversance with business analytics techniques, particularly descriptive analytics. Familiarity with basic statistical methods. Ability to clearly discern which statistical methods are best suited to a given question, and to articulate limitations in certainty from statistical results.
• Project management leadership in an Agile development context. Ability to assemble team member inputs in terms of task scope and duration as well as interdependencies, then incorporate them into sprint and epic plans. Confidence to track work performance progress and communicate risk and issues to client stakeholders.
• Business process modeling and mining. Experience with methods and techniques to document operational workflows comprised of interactions between humans and systems. Knowledge in methods to identify mission information exchanges within those workflows and associate them with technical data elements in client’s mission information environment.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3000 employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.