Expert Analytic Methodologist (OBI) - OBIQUA

Celestar Holdings Corporation; Great Falls Crossing (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) with company matching

Paid holidays and personal time off

Job summary

Celestar Holdings Corporation is seeking an Expert Analytic Methodologist to support the Defense Intelligence Agency's initiatives. The role focuses on developing analytic strategies and methodologies, requiring significant experience and a master's degree. Join a veteran-owned company offering competitive salaries and benefits, with a commitment to valuing its employees.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of relevant analysis experience.
• Experience in developing analytic production methodologies.
• Ability to define problems and supervise studies.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of analytic strategies for intelligence questions.
• Identify and evaluate methods and algorithms for analysis.
• Collaborate to enhance data retrieval and reasoning.

Skills

Analytic leadership

Data analysis

Problem-solving

Education

Master’s degree in a related area

Job description

Expert Analytic Methodologist (OBI) - OBIQUA

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Celestar Corporation is seeking an Expert Analytic Methodologist (OBI) to support The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under the Object Based Intelligence and Quality Assurance (OBIQUA) task order. The primary place of performance will be at DIA Facilities across the National Capital Region (NCR). If interested and meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding and impactful opportunity.

ANTICIPATED AWARD: December 2025/ January 2026

ANTICIPATED START: February/March 2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 3 Option Years

LOCATION: DIA Facilities across the National Capital Region (NCR)

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI with a Current CI Poly

About Us

Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities

This opportunity will support multiple DIA initiatives, including the Machine-Assisted Rapid-Repository System (MARS), Object Management Services (OMS), and Object-Based Intelligence (OBI).

• The Expert Analytic Methodologist, Object Based Intelligence (OBI), Supports the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of mission-driven requirements.
• Works with ambiguous information, deconstructs key questions, suggests methodologies, develops data schema to structured observations, and supports visualization of applicable data.
• Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production.
• Identifies, retrieves, manipulates, relates, and / or exploits structured data sets from all available sources.
• Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for repeatable, widely applicable procedures.
• Combines empirical or quantitative methods with data analysis for intelligence production of complex and data-driven assessments.
• Evaluates the capabilities and limitations of analytic methodologies.
• Design, develop, and maintain domain-specific ontologies to enable semantic representation of data inputs, facilitating integration of data sources and interoperability with internal and external OMSs.
• Design, develop, and maintain knowledge graphs leveraging domain-specific ontologies to support advance data querying, data visualization, and integration of intelligence functions via OBI standards.
• Apply semantic web standards (e.g. RDF, OWL, SPARQL) to knowledge model entities, relationships, and vocabulary in accordance with industry and government data standards.
• Establish processes for ontology version control, change management, stakeholder and governance review to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with IC and DoD policies and standards.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g. GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL).
• Collaborate with team members to validate and refine exploratory efforts to automate ontologies and associated components to ensure semantic accuracy, relevance, and interoperability with existing knowledge modeling and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Collaborate with team members to evaluate effectiveness of exploratory efforts to automate ontology and associated component generation leveraging qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Supports capability development by contributing, editing, and storing ontologies and knowledge models in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories.
  
  

Required Qualifications/skills

• Minimum 20 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the
  
  

specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college
  
  

or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

• Demonstrates ability to define problems, supervise studies and lead surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrates analytic leadership and expertise in identifying, planning, developing, and executing analytic production methodologies, tradecraft and techniques aligned with labor category mission.
• Demonstrates extensive ability to provide strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to Defense planners and policymakers.
  
  

Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!

Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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