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Data AnalystPosition Description & Qualifications If you love high profile and challenging projects supporting the US Army, then Serco has a great opportunity for you! As a Data Analyst you will be part of the Global Logistics Augmentation and Support Services (GLASS) team supporting Army Sustainment Command (ASC) at Rock Island Arsenal. Bring your expertise and collaborative skills to make an difference on high-visibility, influential projects. At Serco, we foster a dynamic and collaborative work environment where team members contribute to innovative, high-impact projects for leading government clients. We provide opportunities to solve complex challenges, improve processes, and utilize the latest technologies to deliver top-tier products and services to our customers. The positions on this contract are located both CONUS and OCONUS in support of Army Sustainment Command (ASC). In this role, you will:Perform analysis and analytics to produce algorithms and/or business process recommendations.Use data, algorithms, and analyses to identify and apply mechanisms to both overcome impediments to materiel readiness and exploit opportunities to improve readiness through feasible, cost-effective software and business process improvements, changes, and interventions.Address complex analytical challenges and identify the challenges and opportunities within systems, develop comprehensive solutions, and incorporate these capabilities solutions into software and workflows.Develop analytics and process solution sets, the criteria for recommended algorithms and processes shall include preference for efficient methods that use as simple of a process as possible given the current state-of-the-art practices. The analytics and process solution sets shall provide appropriate, economic savings-driven answers.Regularly identify and communicate courses of actions required for program and project success, including appropriate reporting processes and applicable metrics to monitor and assess outcomes.Proactively identify mechanisms to improve mission performance.Use appropriate qualitative analytics techniques to include multi-criteria decision analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, causal mapping, formal game theory, minimax procedures (game theory), decision architecture, systems architecture analysis, organizational analysis and structural reform, supply chain analysis, and multinational best practices (military and industry) evaluation.Use logistics and agent-based modeling and simulation.Conduct business process analysis and optimization across the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, Education, Personnel, Facilities, Policy (DOTMLPF-P) spectrum and beyond.Produce formal use cases, software program change requests, and other required documentation for technology insertion into related defense logistics support software.Interface and liaise with software program offices and contractors.Conduct stakeholder analysis and create products for stakeholder communications and messaging.Prepare and execute briefings, information papers, etc., on equipment issues to present at meetings, working groups, or conferences concerning organizational or functional areas of responsibility.Utilize various logistics and analytical systems (i.e. DST, GCSS-A, LMP, GFEBs, etc.) and Microsoft Suite (i.e. Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) to provide analysis, requirements, information papers, executive summaries (EXSUM), significant activities (SIGACTS), and guidance to enterprise.Perform tasks to include planning, organizing, and performing analytical studies, developing new approaches to problems, developing solutions, and/or developing and interpreting broad logistics policies and regulations. Research to resolve unique logistics issues, where efforts often involve conflict resolution and where precedents do not exist.Conduct research and analysis for new and long-range strategic application of logistic functions and requires analysis of interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of substantial mission-oriented logistics programs.To be successful in this role, you will have:Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance. US Citizenship.Bachelor's degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, or other related business or quantitative discipline.1 year of experience working directly on a data science team.Working knowledge of tools, including object-oriented programming (Python, Java), computational analysis tools (R, MATLAB), and associated data science libraries.Experience creating meaningful data visualizations and interactive dashboards using platforms such as Excel, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, RShiny, plotly, and d3.js to communicate findings and relate them back to how your insights create business impact.Working knowledge of databases and SQL.Superior communication skills, both oral and written.Knowledge of data science methods related to data architecture, data munging, data and feature engineering.Experience developing software to generate reports and visualizations that summarize data sets and provide data-driven insights.Ability to travel up to 10%.