Senior OSINT Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

A federal client is seeking a highly experienced Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Analyst to support enterprise fraud detection, intelligence analysis, and risk mitigation efforts. The selected candidate will leverage advanced analytical techniques, open-source intelligence collection, and fraud analytics expertise to identify emerging fraud schemes, suspicious operational activity, and threat patterns impacting financial and operational environments.

This role requires strong investigative instincts, technical analytical capabilities, and the ability to translate complex findings into actionable intelligence products for leadership, audit, compliance, and investigative stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, track, and monitor emerging fraud typologies across financial and operational channels using intelligence-gathering and fraud-analysis methodologies.
• Conduct open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis across forums, social media platforms, dark/deep web sources, news media, public records, and geospatial data to identify fraudulent communication channels and techniques.
• Build and maintain fraud indicators, risk scores, and watchlists using internal datasets and external intelligence sources.
• Develop analytical queries, dashboards, and automated alerts to detect anomalous patterns including counterfeit documentation, suspicious claims activity, identity misuse, and operational irregularities.
• Perform link analysis using open-source and internal data to identify fraud networks, relationships, and scheme interdependencies.
• Produce high-quality intelligence products including threat assessments, trend analyses, subject profiles, timelines, and geo-based heat maps.
• Collaborate with audit, investigative, compliance, and data teams to share intelligence, escalate issues, and support investigative activities.
• Identify emerging risks and trends based on severity, impact, and operational exposure while ensuring proper evidentiary documentation standards.
• Recommend preventive, detective, and mitigative fraud controls and monitoring strategies.
• Monitor changes in regulations, policies, technologies, and criminal methodologies to anticipate evolving fraud risks and operational threats.

Required Qualifications

• US Citizenship required
• Proven experience conducting open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis to identify, track, and monitor emerging fraud typologies.
• Experience developing and maintaining fraud indicators, risk scores, watchlists, and monitoring methodologies using internal and external intelligence sources.
• Proficiency creating analytical queries, dashboards, and automated alerting mechanisms to identify anomalous or suspicious activity.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct link analysis and uncover fraud networks using open-source and operational data.
• Experience producing defensible intelligence products including threat assessments, trend analyses, timelines, profiles, and geospatial visualizations.
• Strong collaboration skills with investigative, audit, compliance, and technical teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present findings to executive and non-technical audiences.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of fraud schemes, fraud-detection methodologies, and applicable regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI and other visualization, link-analysis, or intelligence platforms.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Python or R for data preparation, anomaly detection, and analytical modeling.
• Ability to transform operational observations into actionable data insights and intelligence products.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence Studies, Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in open-source intelligence analysis, fraud analytics, investigations, or related disciplines preferred.
• Professional certifications preferred, including:
• • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Or equivalent industry-recognized certifications

The Midtown Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are a small, woman-owned business certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Operating from our headquarters in Washington, DC, we provide trusted staffing services nationwide. Our clients include thousands of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies, law firms, financial organizations, tech innovators, non-profits, and lobbying firms, as well as federal, state and local government agencies.

The client's infrastructure has plenty of areas in professional growth!

Company Description

The client's infrastructure has plenty of areas in professional growth!