Data Analysis Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of activities related to data analysis, database management, warehouse support, and business intelligence (BI).

• Define mission priorities, requirements, delivery goals, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Government stakeholders.

• Develop and sustain delivery plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status updates.

• Coordinate assignments and technical tasks among personnel in database management, data engineering, analytics, BI, governance, and testing.

• Convert mission requirements into coordinated work packages and prioritized delivery backlogs.

• Supervise database and dataset management activities that support operational analysis and provide AI-ready data.

• Manage data ingestion, transformation, integration, warehouse development, and analytical delivery.

• Evaluate data models, metadata structures, integration strategies, and changes to the warehouse.

• Ensure that data quality, integrity, traceability, access, performance, and usability standards are met.

• Oversee data governance initiatives that include ownership, definitions, authoritative sources, lineage, and approved usage.

• Align dashboards, reports, analytical products, and self-service features with mission requirements.

• Coordinate dependencies among data platforms, source systems, applications, AI functionalities, and reporting consumers.

• Establish review checkpoints for requirements, technical designs, implementation progress, testing, and readiness for release.

• Facilitate reconciliation, data validation, regression testing, performance testing, and user acceptance activities.

• Analyze test findings and quality issues; coordinate corrective measures and defect resolutions.

• Address or escalate delivery obstacles, resource conflicts, technical dependencies, and Government decisions.

• Track progress and communicate risks, trade-offs, recommendations, and necessary actions.

• Ensure that analytical products yield clear and actionable insights aligned with documented goals.

• Manage operational transitions, maintenance documentation, technical guidance, and knowledge transfer.

• Monitor stakeholder feedback and integrate lessons learned into future priorities and process enhancements.

• Prepare briefings for the Government, status reports, decision materials, and task deliverables.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

• A minimum of 12 years of pertinent professional experience is necessary.

• A Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data analytics, or a relevant field, or an acceptable equivalent.

• Proven experience in leading database delivery initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience in leading data warehouse delivery projects.

• Experience in leading analytics and business intelligence delivery efforts.

• Background in defining, coordinating, and managing requirements effectively.

• Experience in overseeing delivery quality is essential.

• Proven ability to identify and manage dependencies across teams and technical workstreams.

• Experience collaborating with Government representatives and stakeholders.

• Capability to lead teams in data analysis, database management, warehouse support, and BI to produce actionable insights.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment opportunities.

• An Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Possibility for consideration for other available positions requiring similar skills, education, and experience.