Data & Metrics Analyst: Build Trusted Dashboards & Baselines

LMI Government Consulting; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting in Tysons, VA seeks a Data Analyst/Data & Measurement Analyst to sustain analytical capacity for VA modernization efforts. The role develops baselines, recurring metrics, validated calculations, dashboards, and data-quality checks with strong stakeholder trust.

The position is hybrid with approximately 25% onsite presence at LMI’s Tysons headquarters or Washington, DC, focusing on reproducible metrics and clear narrative interpretation across sources and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, statistics, mathematics, economics, public health, information systems, or related field.
• 4+ years in data analysis, reporting, performance measurement, BI, or related work.
• Strong SQL plus at least one analytical tool such as Python, R, SAS, or advanced Excel.
• Experience with data preparation, validation, dashboards, recurring metrics, and documentation of assumptions/limitations.
• Recommended certification: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst or comparable BI credential.
• Ability to satisfy VA personnel vetting and applicable security, privacy, data-handling requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to build reliable recurring analyses from imperfect operational data, including validation, reconciliation, and documentation of assumptions.
• Strong practical skills with SQL, Excel and/or Python/R plus a visualization tool.
• Clear analytical writing and communication skills, including explanations of definitions, data-quality concerns, limitations, and result changes to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience eliciting and documenting reporting requirements, metric definitions, business rules, and acceptance criteria with business or mission stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple recurring and ad-hoc analytical requests, prioritize based on decision need and effort, and communicate timelines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, clean, combine, transform, and validate data from multiple sources.
• Calculate baselines, recurring metrics, before/after measures, denominators, and outcome indicators.
• Build analytical tables, visualizations, dashboards, and decision-ready reporting products.
• Document metric definitions, data sources, cadence, validation steps, assumptions, and calculation logic.
• Perform data-quality checks, reconcile discrepancies, and maintain reproducible analytical workflows.
• Support outcome reports with validated findings, concise narrative, and clear limitations.
• Respond to recurring and ad-hoc analytical questions for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Escalate data-quality, access, or methodology concerns that could materially affect conclusions.
• Develop and maintain metric dictionaries that define business rules, source fields, exclusions, denominators, refresh cadence, validation steps, owners, and interpretation guidance.
• Automate repeatable data-preparation, quality-check, calculation, and reporting steps where practical to reduce manual effort and improve consistency over time.
• Reconcile discrepancies across source systems, reports, and stakeholder calculations and document the resolution when definitions or authoritative sources differ.
• Support ad-hoc analytical questions by profiling data, testing hypotheses, and translating results into concise findings while preserving reproducibility.
• Work with stakeholders to translate reporting needs into precise metric definitions, data requirements, calculation rules, validation checks, and acceptance criteria before building recurring products.
• Perform periodic quality reviews of dashboards and recurring reports to identify stale logic, broken refreshes, source changes, or definition drift.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Excel

Data analysis

Analytical writing

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in data analytics, statistics, mathematics, economics, public health, information systems, business analytics, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Query

DAX

SQL Server

Azure data tools

Job description

LMI Government Consulting in Tysons, VA seeks a Data Analyst/Data & Measurement Analyst to sustain analytical capacity for VA modernization efforts. The role develops baselines, recurring metrics, validated calculations, dashboards, and data-quality checks with strong stakeholder trust.

The position is hybrid with approximately 25% onsite presence at LMI’s Tysons headquarters or Washington, DC, focusing on reproducible metrics and clear narrative interpretation across sources and