Data Analyst

COHO Consulting Group is seeking a Data Analyst for process and data analysis support for a federal customer process improvement contract. They will be supporting an operational efficiency though process and data analysis, developing improvement recommendations, metric development and monitoring, dashboard, and data visualization as well as workflow automation support.

This position is hybrid on-site 2 days/week in Arlington, VA and remote 3 days, unless otherwise required by the government project/meeting schedule.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Assist with developing, implementing, and maintain leading-edge analytic systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks.
• Identify trends and opportunities that enable the organization to make data-driven decisions through analysis of complex data sets.
• Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization.
• Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data.
• Under the direction of the Sr. Data Analyst, work with the client to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers.
• Ensure data integrity with data cleansing, preparation, exploration, and analysis, creating data visualizations, reports for problem solving.
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources.
• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across data sets.
• Support documenting decisions with meeting minutes.

Essential Job Requirements:

• Clearance:
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust
• Education:
  • Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or Statistics or related field
• Required Knowledge/Experience:
  • 3+ years’ experience mining data as a data analyst
  • Proven analytic skills, including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization.
  • Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations.
  • Experience building dashboards and visualizations using PowerBI
  • Strong SQL or Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools.
  • Proven track record of providing data visualization capabilities that communicate to stakeholders results in a clear and concise manner.
• Preferred Knowledge/Experience:
  • Prior experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques
  • Strong programming experience with frameworks including XML, Javascript, and ETL
  • Practical experience in statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages including Excel, SPSS, and SAS
  • Understanding of the Baldrige Framework