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Senior Operations Research Analyst

1805 KBR Wyle Services, LLC
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/16/2026
Title: Senior Operations Research Analyst Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR! Senior Operations Research Analyst KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. Why Join Us? Innovative Projects: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace. Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in successfully getting mission capability on orbit and shaping the future of space reconnaissance. Job Description: Develops and implements new research objectives, establish project priorities, defines methods to approach and execute the study. • Provides scientific conclusions and interpretations. • Analyzes actual and predicted, interacting, and operational activities of a military, governmental, or business system to obtain a quantitative, rational basis for decision-making through the application of logic and scientific or economic disciplines and techniques. • Participates in planning, scheduling, and coordinating selected analytical process phases or assists in working any selection of subcomponents of the process or system under analysis. • Devises modeling and measuring techniques; utilizes mathematics, statistical methods, simulations, operational mathematics techniques (linear programming, game theory, probability theory, symbolic language, etc.) and other principles and laws of scientific and economic disciplines • Applies extensive technical expertise and has knowledge of other related disciplines • Guides the successful completion of analysis • Has extensive experience both leading analytical teams and as a contributor in an analysis team. • Develops technical solutions to complex problems that require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity • Work is performed without appreciable direction. • Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment. Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Analysis related field • 10 years of analysis experience • Ability to gain and hold a TS/SCI clearance • Experience manipulating data from Excel spreadsheets • Ability and motivation to self-teach analysis skills aligned with analysis best practices • Expected to deliver in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment • Ability combine and analyze disparate data for presentation to senior level decision makers Desired Qualifications: Active TS/SCI clearance • Expertise in operational testing environments, surveillance and reconnaissance environments, and electromagnetic spectrum fields • Familiarity with models approved for use in the Defense Intelligence Agency All-Source Analysis Enterprise (DIAAE) • Familiarity with the Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operating Environment process • Expertise in satellite communications, satellite constellations and developing and conducting operational tests to assist a diverse team conduct requirements analyses • Experience researching, identifying, and making recommendations on resources and emergent technologies that may improve the execution of future year requirements • Experience developing display metrics generated from automated data sources • Experience with modeling, simulation and wargaming forjoint campaign scenario development and analysis • Experience with a cloud computing system such as ADVANA, ENVISION or PALANTIR • Experience with model-based systems engineering programs SysML, CAMEO, MagicDraw • Experience with the Satellite Analysis Toolkit • Experience programming with Python, MATLAB, C and SQL • Familiarity with AFSIM and STK Work Environment: Location: On-site in Arlington, VA Travel Requirements: Minimal less than 10% if necessary Working Hours: Standard Ready to Make a Difference? If you’re excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together. Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together. KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. KBR — Delivering Solutions, Changing the World. KBR brings together the best and brightest to deliver science, technology and engineering solutions that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most critical missions and objectives. In everything we do, we are guided by our ONE KBR Values: We Value Our People – We create diverse, inclusive environments in which each person can feel safe, respected and valued, and where everyone has opportunities to grow and reach their full potential. We Deliver – We are uncompromising in our commitment to deliver innovative, high-quality, technology-led solutions for our customers and exceptional, sustainable value for all our stakeholders. We Are People of Integrity – We value honesty, trust, courage, fairness, prudence and tenacity. We believe doing what’s right for the planet, the communities where we work, and our people is good for business. We Empower – We empower our people with a shared purpose, the right tools and the supportive culture they need to be proactive decision-makers, to be adaptive to change, and to succeed. We Are a Team of Teams – We have a will to succeed, but we value the achievements of our team of teams over individual accomplishments. Our collective focus makes us a better, stronger, more effective company. We have also embedded environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in every business operation and corporate function. Not only are we committed to operating safely, sustainably and equitably, but we are also committed to using our capabilities and expertise to help our customers accomplish their sustainability goals. Worldwide, KBR employs a diverse workforce approximately 29,000 people strong, with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 40 countries. At KBR, We Deliver. 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