Data Analyst - Top Secret

Parsons; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a cleared, mid-level Data Analyst to support U.S. Cyber Command. You will perform data acquisition, quality assessments, governance reviews, and mission-focused analysis to maximize data value for cyber defense operations.

You will collaborate with data engineers, cybersecurity personnel, platform admins, SMEs, and government stakeholders to produce evidence-based findings and actionable recommendations.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity or related field with 5 years of relevant experience; 4 additional years may substitute for degree.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent DoD-approved cybersecurity certification.
• Experience conducting data-quality, compliance, governance, cybersecurity, or IT audits in a structured environment.
• Familiarity with Federal frameworks including NIST SP 800-53 and FISMA.
• Experience evaluating data sources, pipelines, metadata, access controls, platform configurations, or data-governance processes.
• Experience developing clear, evidence-based findings, reports, and recommendations.
• Understanding of data-quality concepts, validation, lineage, metadata, retention, and access control.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct structured reviews of data assets, ingestion pipelines, metadata, retention practices, and data quality.
• Perform data acquisition activities by identifying sources, coordinating connections, validating delivery, and documenting source requirements.
• Evaluate data platforms, governance configurations, access controls, and security-relevant settings for compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Implement data-quality checks at ingestion to identify anomalies and delivery failures.
• Produce evidence-based findings, compliance reports, risk assessments, and technical recommendations.
• Map findings to requirements including NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and program policies.
• Maintain findings and remediation logs; track actions and verify closure.
• Identify data governance risks such as policy gaps, access-control issues, and retention concerns.
• Maintain audit methodologies, checklists, schedules, and reporting templates.

Job description

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Parsons is seeking a cleared, mid-level Data Analyst to support U.S. Cyber Command. The analyst will perform data acquisition, data-quality assessments, governance reviews, and mission-focused analysis to maximize the value of data supporting cyber defense operations.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Plan and conduct structured reviews of data assets, ingestion pipelines, metadata, classification records, retention practices, and data quality.
• Perform data acquisition activities by identifying sources, coordinating connections, validating delivery, and documenting source requirements.
• Evaluate data platforms, governance configurations, access controls, and security-relevant settings for compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Implement data-quality checks at ingestion to identify anomalies, schema changes, incomplete records, and delivery failures.
• Produce evidence-based findings, compliance reports, risk assessments, and technical recommendations.
• Map findings to applicable requirements, including NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and program-specific policies.
• Maintain findings and remediation logs; assign actions, track progress, verify closure, and escalated unresolved issues.
• Identify data governance risks, including policy gaps, configuration weaknesses, access-control issues, data-quality problems, and retention concerns.
• Maintain audit methodologies, checklists, schedules, procedures, and reporting templates.
• Maintain documentation for data sources, pipelines, ingestion schedules, platform configurations, metadata, known issues, and data dependencies.
• Support data lineage, cataloging, metadata management, and source-to-consumer traceability.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, cybersecurity personnel, platform administrators, subject-matter experts, and government stakeholders.
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Support onboarding of new data sources and continuous improvement of data acquisition and governance processes.
• Use structured analysis and reporting techniques to support mission assessments, data availability evaluations, and operational decision-making.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring:

• Active Top Secret security clearance required .
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, or a related field, and 5 years of relevant professional experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent DoD-approved cybersecurity certification.
• Experience conducting data-quality, compliance, governance, cybersecurity, or IT audits in a structured environment.
• Familiarity with federal compliance frameworks, including NIST SP 800-53 and FISMA.
• Experience evaluating data sources, pipelines, metadata, access controls, platform configurations, or data-governance processes.
• Experience developing clear, evidence-based findings reports, compliance documentation, technical assessments, and recommendations.
• Understanding of data-quality principles, data validation, data lineage, metadata, classification, retention, and access control.
• Experience identifying risks, documenting findings, tracking remediation, and verifying corrective actions.
• Ability to assess technical environments and documentation, including data pipelines and platform configurations, with limited or indirect system access.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to interpret and apply policy and technical documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

• Two or more years of experience using threat-hunting or cyber-defense applications such as Ionic, Superset, Rally, Feed Health, or comparable tools.
• Experience administering or analyzing data from Splunk, Security Onion, Gigamon, or comparable cybersecurity platforms.
• Experience with data acquisition, source onboarding, ingestion validation, data integration, or data pipeline monitoring.
• Familiarity with streaming technologies and event-driven data architectures.
• Experience with data lineage concepts and tools.
• Experience with data cataloging and metadata-management tools such as DataHub , Collibra, Alation, Apache Atlas, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with audit-management, governance, risk, and compliance tools or platforms.
• Experience developing data-quality rules, validation checks, dashboards, metrics, or operational