Analytic Methodologist – Senior

Analytic Methodologist Senior

Reston VA

Active TS/SCI with Poly Clearance required

@Orchard is retained by a top geospatial technology company supporting important operations missions to U.S. Government customers. Our client is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence helping decision makers and operators navigate whats happening now and shape whats coming next. They are a place for problem solvers changemakers and go-getterswhere people are working together to help our customers see the world differently and in doing so be seen differently. Come be part of a mission not just a job where you can: Shape your own future build the next big thing and change the world.

In this position you will support the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of mission-driven requirements. Analytic Methodologists will support a dynamic Object-Based Intelligence (OBI) program focused on predictive analytics structured methodologies and semantic integration across the defense intelligence mission set. This role involves designing and recommending analytic strategies developing repeatable workflows and engineering knowledge models to support anticipatory intelligence across a wide range of national security domainsincluding emerging technologies geopolitical trends military capabilities and threat networks.

This position requires an active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI Polygraph.

For this role we are seeking a Senior Analytic Methodologist.

Responsibilities:

• Deconstruct complex and ambiguous intelligence questions to recommend structured analytic methodologies tailored to mission requirements.
• Evaluate and adapt existing analytic models algorithms and frameworks to improve objectivity completeness and predictive value of intelligence production.
• Design develop and maintain domain-specific ontologies to enable semantic representation of data inputs facilitating integration of data sources and interoperability with internal and external OMSs.
• Design develop and maintain knowledge graphs leveraging domain-specific ontologies to support advance data querying data visualization and integration of intelligence function via OBI standards.
• Apply semantic web standards (e.g. RDF OWL SPARQL) to knowledge model entities relationships and vocabularies in accordance with industry and government data standards.
• Establish processes for ontology version control change management stakeholder and governance review to ensure accuracy consistency and compliance with IC and DoD policies and standards.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g. GraphQL SPARQL SHACL SQL).
• Collaborate with team members to validate and refine exploratory efforts to automate ontologies and associated components to ensure semantic accuracy relevance and interoperability with existing knowledge modeling and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Collaborate with team members to evaluate effectiveness of exploratory efforts to automate ontology and associated component generation leveraging qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Support capability development by contributing editing and storing ontologies and knowledge models in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
• 12 years of experience and an advanced degree
• Experience with structured analytic methods and designing repeatable analytic processes.
• Familiarity with semantic technologies and ontology development tools (e.g. Protégé).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with an ability to tailor to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Possesses knowledge and experience of advanced analytics and data storage.
• Knowledge of various data science applications and architectures.
• Experience with Python.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to synthesize abstract concepts into actionable intelligence products.
• Experience applying predictive analytics to strategic intelligence problems across multiple domains.
• Develops and employs strategies to analyze key issues draw conclusions from data and recommend viable solutions to address customer mission needs.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to complete complex data science projects.
• Experienced in applying statistical and data visualization skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills to manipulate data and draw insights from large structured and unstructured data sets.
• Proven ability to learn and master new software technologies and techniques.
• Experience in two or more of the following: Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Large Language Models Apache Spark Hadoop R C SQL Database/Coding or visualization tools such as Tableau.

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