MASINT Data Analyst — TS/SCI Clearance Required

Vantor Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor seeks a data analyst to join a critical MASINT mission supporting IC/DoD requirements. You will work with senior data scientists to clean, analyze, and visualize datasets, documenting methods and assumptions for leadership audiences.

On-site work in a security-cleared environment is required, with exposure to data pipelines and LLM-enabled workflows. You will contribute to recurring reports, ad hoc analyses, and dashboards, while maintaining thorough data documentation and collaborating

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in data science, CS, engineering, statistics, GIS (or 2 years additional experience in lieu).
• 3 years of professional experience in data analytics or data engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with data wrangling libraries (e.g., pandas, PySpark) and APIs or batch tooling.
• Experience with SQL and relational databases.
• Understanding of data modeling, metadata management, and data governance.
• Proficiency with Tableau or similar dashboard tools.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data services.
• Strong attention to detail and documentation practices.
• Ability to translate stakeholder questions into analytical requirements, metrics, reports, and visuals.
• Ability to communicate findings through written products, dashboards, briefings, and data visuals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior data scientists to prepare, clean, and process structured and unstructured datasets for analysis.
• Communicate analytical findings, assumptions, limitations, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Automate data preparation, quality checks, and reporting with Python, SQL, and scripting tools.
• Analyze data from relational databases, APIs, flat files, and enterprise platforms.
• Support data pipelines by documenting source-data issues and transformations for data engineers.
• Assist in the development and deployment of data pipelines with data engineering and DevOps teams.
• Tag metadata and curate datasets for knowledge management and LLM-enabled workflows.
• Perform basic statistics, visualizations, and reporting to support exploratory analysis and hypothesis validation.
• Maintain detailed documentation of data preparation methods and pipeline configurations.
• Support integration of data into downstream modeling and LLM/NLP workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analytics

Data wrangling

Data visualization

Communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, engineering, statistics, GIS

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Pandas

PySpark

Tableau

APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Vantor seeks a data analyst to join a critical MASINT mission supporting IC/DoD requirements. You will work with senior data scientists to clean, analyze, and visualize datasets, documenting methods and assumptions for leadership audiences.

On-site work in a security-cleared environment is required, with exposure to data pipelines and LLM-enabled workflows. You will contribute to recurring reports, ad hoc analyses, and dashboards, while maintaining thorough data documentation and collaborating