Data Analyst — Mission Assurance & Strategic Analytics

Barbaricum; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barbaricum seeks a Journeyman Data Analyst to assess, process, and support data collection for the USAF Mission Assurance program. You will provide high-impact analytical decision-support and strategic analysis of assessment data for DoDD 3020.40 and DODI 3020.45.

The role interfaces with senior leaders, builds predictive analytics, designs decision-support products in Palantir Foundry and Advana, and develops executive dashboards for defense leadership.

Qualifications

• Active DoD TS clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• At least 3 years of DoW experience focusing on critical infrastructure, readiness, or operations.
• Willingness to travel CONUS/OCONUS ~25%.
• Excellent oral and written communication with diverse partners.

Responsibilities

• Interface directly with senior leaders to deliver data-driven clarity on MA risks and readiness.
• Formulate tasking packages and staffing materials backed by predictive analytics.
• Design and deploy decision-support products, automated data workflows, and dashboards in secure platforms (Palantir Foundry/Advana).
• Model and forecast multiple COAs to inform commanders on success probabilities and asset degradation.
• Construct ROI decision models to evaluate security enhancements and infrastructure upgrades.
• Quantify cost of inaction by mapping threat probabilities to asset costs and mission impacts.
• Synthesize data outputs into executive dashboards, briefs, and information papers for general officer consumption.
• Conduct data-driven risk-mitigation analyses to identify vulnerabilities across networks.
• Leverage AI/ML to extract indicators from unstructured datasets and historical docs.
• Bridge gap between capability providers and data engineers to ensure pipeline data maps correctly to mission capabilities.

Skills

Risk management

Data analysis

Communication

Mission Assurance

AI/ML methods

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Advana

MARMS

Maven

Envision

Job description

Barbaricum seeks a Journeyman Data Analyst to assess, process, and support data collection for the USAF Mission Assurance program. You will provide high-impact analytical decision-support and strategic analysis of assessment data for DoDD 3020.40 and DODI 3020.45.

The role interfaces with senior leaders, builds predictive analytics, designs decision-support products in Palantir Foundry and Advana, and develops executive dashboards for defense leadership.