Senior Data Analyst

Optima Global Solutions Inc.is a valuable IT Services and Solution provider that customers, employees, and stakeholders feel proud to be associated with. Optima's Intelligent Automation Solutions leverage robotic process automation, intelligent data capture, and business process management best practices to streamline operations. Our IT Services practice provides organizations with highly personalized, comprehensive, U.S. based recruiting services supported by our internal onsite team of subject matter experts.

Currently, we are hiring for the following position;

Senior Data Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to support the testing & evaluation (T&E) platform. You will work with the Test Services Director in the advancement of the Development Testing & Evaluation Platform's strategic needs with a focus on data & information accessibility. You will work tightly with approximately one other Data Analyst.

You will be responsible for data pulls, cleaning, manipulation, and integration. You will develop and maintain workflows and dashboards that improve our visibility of the testing platform's output and adherence to standards. You will automate as much of the data pulling, cleaning, manipulating, integration, and reporting as possible. You will engage with leaders across the broader organization to ensure they're getting the right data of the right quality at the right time, as well as with software testing employees to ensure understanding of the data and support compliance with data recording and reporting policies and best practices.

This person should exercise critical thinking skills that enable them to understand the reason they are doing the work requested of them and to then identify adjustments that may be made to the request to deliver a better outcome. They must also be able to work independently, prioritize responsibilities, and develop informed recommendations. Our team is feedback oriented. This role will work closely with other contracted members of BCG's team and subcontracted resources.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data pulls, cleaning, manipulation, and integration

• Identify and download correctly filtered and organized sets of data from a variety of sources in Jira (with plug-ins like Zephyr Scale and Xray), Jazz, Metronome, and other Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Testing software packages
• Clean, adjust, and integrate data from multiple sources to ensure the data accurately reflects reality and can provide wholistic pictures using Excel, SQL, Python, and/or Alteryx
  
  

Develop new data visualizations, maintain & improve existing data visualizations

• Help assess critical information and questions to answer with data, provide input to the appropriate metrics to use, and design appropriate dashboards to share necessary data
• Develop the dashboards according to the design within Jira, PowerBI, Excel, and/or PowerPoint as appropriate
• Maintain, adapt, and/or improve dashboards as requirements change or become better understood
  
  

Automation and process improvement

• Develop workflows to streamline and automate data pulling, cleaning, manipulation, and integration tasks
• Automate updating of dashboards
• Recommend workflow changes up & downstream for data capture, pulling, cleaning, manipulation, and reporting tasks that can simplify or reduce the work required to provide accurate data
• Provide input / author Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) to codify best-practices for data capture, pulling, cleaning, manipulation, and reporting
  
  

Engage senior leaders

• Join discussions / workshops to assess, refine, and capture leadership information requirements
• Iterate as appropriate with leaders on dashboards and other reports to ensure their needs are met
• Act as a subject matter expert on software test data and reporting to help leaders assess their needs
  
  

Engage software testing staff

• Work with software testers to understand their actual workflows, activities, and pain points to inform best-practice SOP's and procedures
• Train / ensure workforce understands correct procedures so that data can be reported accurately according to the types of information leaders need to make decisions
  
  

Perform special projects and/or other duties as assigned or required.

BASIC JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Excel experience
• Jira or similar SDLC software package experience
• Python and SQL experience
• PowerBI (or similar experience with ability to learn PowerBI)
• Knowledge & experience of Software testing & workflows, especially modern methods like DevSecOps, CI/CD, etc.)
• Ability to communicate simply and clearly to senior and junior personnel
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly
• Willingness and ability to periodically join team live in Chantilly, VA and Washington D.C.
• Experience working in the Department of Defense; experience in other large institutions or businesses may also qualify in lieu of DoD experience
  
  

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Ability to think strategically and participate in strategic development
• Experience in Healthcare, especially in medical coding and informatics
• Clearance or Public Trust within the DoD (especially from DHA
• Active Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secrete clearance
  
  

Interested candidates, please apply online with a detailed resume and contact information.

Thank you.