Title:

Senior Operations Research Analyst

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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.

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