Data Analytics Specialist - Hybrid, Federal Impact

LMI Consulting, LLC; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Data Analyst to support VA modernization initiatives. The role focuses on transforming questions into defensible analyses, validating data sources, and producing decision-ready results.

Expect hands-on analytics, dashboards, and collaboration with data science and engineering teams. Ideal candidates bring SQL proficiency, experience with Python or R, and the ability to document methods and data quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, computer science, information systems, public health, engineering, or a related quantitative field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 4+ years of relevant data analysis, business intelligence, performance analysis, reporting, or operational analytics experience. Level IV placement will generally require 7+ years plus independent ownership of complex analysis.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency with at least one additional analytical tool such as Python, R, SAS, advanced Excel, Power Query, or a comparable platform.
• Experience preparing and validating multi-source data, including joins, transformations, duplicate handling, missing-data review, exception analysis, and reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Profile enterprise, operational, workflow, program, survey, or other approved data for availability, completeness, consistency, quality, and fitness for use.
• Extract, query, join, clean, transform, and validate data using SQL and tools such as Python, R, Excel, Power Query, or comparable platforms.
• Perform exploratory, descriptive, trend, cohort, segmentation, variance, and before/after analysis appropriate to the decision need and available data.
• Build analysis-ready datasets, analytical tables, visualizations, dashboards, and concise decision-support products for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Translate stakeholder questions into data requirements, metric definitions, filters, denominators, business rules, validation checks, and analytical outputs.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

SQL Server

Job description

LMI is seeking a Data Analyst to support VA modernization initiatives. The role focuses on transforming questions into defensible analyses, validating data sources, and producing decision-ready results.

Expect hands-on analytics, dashboards, and collaboration with data science and engineering teams. Ideal candidates bring SQL proficiency, experience with Python or R, and the ability to document methods and data quality.