Data/Visualization Analyst - Advanced Technological Solutions, LLC

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a dynamic Data/Visualization Analyst to transform complex data into actionable insights and drive strategic decisions across the organization.

You will build dashboards and data models using BI tools, collaborate with leadership, and align data with business goals while ensuring data quality and governance across domains.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• 5+ years of experience as a data/business analyst engaging directly with senior stakeholders on metrics and reporting requirements.
• Proficiency in at least one BI/visualization tool (Power BI, Tableau, or Databricks Dashboards).
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of data management concepts.
• Experience defining and operationalizing KPIs and metrics frameworks.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and data quality principles.
• Familiarity with government financial, HR, CRM, or ITSM systems.

Responsibilities

• Engage with agency leadership and stakeholders to define metrics, KPIs, and reporting outcomes from business system data.
• Translate leadership reporting and metrics requirements into data requirements for the Databricks engineering team.
• Support the Government's platform-strategy objective of directing requirements to existing owned platforms rather than additional BI tooling.
• Coordinate with Databricks engineers to confirm data sources and integrations will produce required outputs.
• Support downstream visualization efforts (Power BI, Tableau) by ensuring data and metric definitions are correct and complete.
• Establish standardized KPI definitions, data validation frameworks, and metric consistency across reporting products.
• Conduct requirements gathering sessions and UAT with business users to ensure dashboards meet analytical needs.
• Present data-driven insights and recommendations to stakeholders across multiple business domains.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

KPI development

Data validation

Data storytelling

Analytical thinking

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Databricks Dashboards

SQL

Job description

Job Summary We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Data/Visualization Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will harness your expertise in data analytics tools, business intelligence, and visualization platforms to transform complex data into actionable insights. You will collaborate across teams to develop compelling dashboards, reports, and data models that support strategic decision-making and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with agency leadership and stakeholders to define specific metrics, KPIs, and reporting outcomes they want to track from business system data
• Translate leadership reporting and metrics requirements into concrete data requirements (data elements, source systems) for the Databricks engineering team
• Support the Government's platform-strategy objective of directing requirements to existing owned platforms rather than additional commercial BI tooling
• Coordinate with Databricks engineers to confirm data sources and integrations will produce required outputs, prior to and during build
• Support downstream visualization efforts (Power BI, Tableau) by ensuring underlying data and metrics definitions are correct and complete
• Establish standardized KPI definitions, data validation frameworks, and metric consistency across reporting products
• Conduct requirements gathering sessions and UAT with business users to ensure dashboards meet analytical needs
• Present data-driven insights and recommendations to stakeholders across multiple business domains

Required Qualifications:

• Active DoD Secret clearance
• 5+ years of experience as a data/business analyst engaging directly with senior stakeholders on metrics and reporting requirements
• Comfortable operating at the intersection of business need and technical data availability
• Proficiency in at least one BI/visualization tool (Power BI, Tableau, or Databricks Dashboards)
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of data management concepts
• Experience defining and operationalizing KPIs and metrics frameworksKnowledge of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and data quality principles
• Familiarity with government financial, HR, CRM, or ITSM systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent writing and grammatical skills