Operational Data Analyst and Knowledge Manager

Radiance Technologies, Inc.; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Job summary

Radiance Technologies, Inc. seeks an Operational Data Analyst and Knowledge Manager to bridge operational aerial intelligence with data architecture and executive decision support at Fort Belvoir, VA.

You will architect end-to-end data pipelines, build predictive models, and engineer interactive dashboards (Power BI, Army Vantage) while administering SharePoint and KM systems across classified enclaves. Strong collaboration with mission stakeholders is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years’ experience; or Master’s degree with 6+ years.
• Experience briefing senior military staff and executives.
• Backlog management with government product owners.
• Translate mission needs into user stories and requirements.
• Establish end-to-end requirements traceability.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver real-time enterprise dashboards (Power BI, Army Vantage).
• Ingest, clean, merge, and model diverse data feeds.
• Develop advanced DAX, Power Query, and SQL queries.
• Create automated workflows and metadata governance.
• Synthesize metrics for executive decision support.

Skills

Executive briefings

Backlog management

Requirements traceability

Data storytelling

Senior stakeholder comms

Power BI

Army Vantage

DAX

Power Query

SQL

SharePoint KM

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Data modeling

Dashboard design

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Army Vantage

SharePoint

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

SQL

Power Query

DAX

Data Modeling Tools

Job description

The Operational Data Analyst and Knowledge Manager operates at the critical intersection of operational aerial intelligence, digital capability development, and executive decision support.

Serving within a multi-echelon Command Operations Center environment, this role bridges frontline operational intelligence requirements with modern data architecture, business intelligence, and collaborative platforms across classified enclaves.

The primary focus of this position is architecting and executing end-to-end data pipelines, predictive and operational data modeling, interactive dashboard engineering (Power BI, Army Vantage), and comprehensive SharePoint / Knowledge Management (KM) administration.

Additionally, the candidate aligns operational mission requirements with technical capability delivery, converting complex operational workflows, policy mandates, and stakeholder priorities into production-ready user stories, automated workflows, and high-impact executive visual analytics.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

1. Data Analytics, Data Modeling, and Dashboard Engineering Enterprise Dashboard Delivery: Serve as the principal designer and developer of an interactive, real-time operational readiness, asset utilization, and executive performance dashboards utilizing, but not limited to, Microsoft Power BI and Army Vantage. Data Modeling and Pipeline Development: Ingest, clean, merge, and transform disparate structured and unstructured data feeds (e.g., flight hours, sensor readiness, maintenance tracking, operational sorties, collection registries, personnel rosters, and task management data) into robust relational and star-schema data models. Advanced Querying and Calculations: Develop advanced DAX measures, calculated columns, complex Power Query (M) transformations, and SQL queries to automate recurrent aggregations, anomaly detection, and trending metrics. Predictive and Operational Analytics: Formulate analytical models to identify mission trends, forecast asset availability, assess sensor performance, and highlight operational bottlenecks or capability gaps for leadership.
2. Knowledge Management and SharePoint Administration Portal Architecture: Design, configure, structure, and administer G3 AISR SharePoint Online / SharePoint Server sites, document libraries, site pages, and lists across unclassified/classified enclaves. Automated Workflow Orchestration: Implement automated business processes, task routing, and request approval workflows using Microsoft Power Automate and custom SharePoint workflows to minimize manual friction in command operations. Taxonomy and Information Architecture: Establish and govern metadata tagging schemas, content types, and granular role-based access control (RBAC) permissions to guarantee secure, audit-ready, and discoverable storage of operational assets, SOPs, running estimates, and historical mission archives. Knowledge Transfer & Governance: Champion digital modernization initiatives and knowledge continuity by mentoring staff on KM best practices, standard operating procedures, and standardized reporting mechanisms.
3. Requirements Analysis and Agile Capability Delivery Lifecycle Traceability Traceability: Establish and maintain comprehensive requirements traceability matrices from initial request through sprint planning, refinement, user acceptance testing (UAT), security deployment, and operational closure using Jira, Azure DevOps, or Confluence. Visual Tracking & Sprint Management: Maintain sprint boards, velocity metrics, release roadmaps, and stakeholder status trackers to synchronize efforts between operational mission units and technical delivery teams.
4. Executive Decision Support and Operational AISR Synchronization Executive Decision Support: Synthesize complex airworthiness metrics, theater intelligence collection priorities, operational sortie rates, and maintenance data into concise, strategic visual summaries and briefings. Operational Coordination: Synchronize operational data across Army Service Component Commands (ASCCs), Military Intelligence Brigades-Theater (MIB-T), collection managers, and Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) nodes.

Required Skills:

• Oral and written communication skills with senior military staff leaders and experience with creating senior level briefings, information papers and executive summaries.
• Translate government mission needs and stakeholder objectives into clear user stories, functional requirements, technical requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage, organize, prioritize, and maintain a product backlog in coordination with government product owners and software development teams.
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability from initial request through development, testing, acceptance, deployment, and closure.
• Create and maintain visual backlog, requirements, sprint, release, and project-status tracking tools.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years’ experience; OR Master’s degree with 6+ years’ experience.
• Executive Briefings & Operational Synchronization: Prepare and brief daily during BUB Agile Product Backlog Management: liaison between IC and software development teams.
• Agile Management: Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence.
• Data Analytics & Dashboard Development: Army Vantage (Palantir Foundry) and Microsoft Power BI (DAX, Power Query, Data Modeling), SQL.

Desired Qualifications:

Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of mission planning and logistics support for Aerial ISR at battalion and higher-level operational experience with various manned and unmanned intelligence collection systems.

Radiance Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Thanks for your interest in working on our team!!

Employee-Ownership

Radiance is a proud employee-owned company! Employee-ownership benefits both our customers and workforce, and ensures that Radiance doesn’t have to answer to stockholders or be driven by quarterly earnings reports. Thus, Radiance will always prioritize enhancing our customer’s mission over expanding our bottom line. We are singularly focused on providing our customers with game-changing solutions to their most challenging requirements. This is only possible because employee-ownership attracts the highest quality employees, empowers them to identify capability enhancements, and provides them with the freedom to take risks to deliver high-quality solutions. Employee-ownership also provides tangible and long-term financial security for our people and their families. Therefore, employee-ownership embodies participation, empowerment, freedom, teaming, excellence, accountability, mission focus, and security.

Our Culture

Our Culture Radiance’s culture is driven by our commitment to our customers and our employee-owners. Our employee-owners thrive on entrepreneurship, empowerment, and mutual responsibility for growth and sustainability. Our culture consists of individuals who embody technical and leadership skills to deliver superior solutions to the nation’s toughest technical challenges.

Our Values

Our values drive our culture, business model, and daily interactions. These values constantly remind us of who we are and what we do. Our employee-owners influence how we operate our business. We relentlessly pursue operating excellence by innovating, improving our processes, and reducing waste. We believe in being wise and ethical stewards of capital and resources. Our values dictate how we interact with each other and our customers, partners, and suppliers. Honesty, trust, humanity, alignment, and value creation require that we treat our employees with dignity and respect and provide them with fair compensation and equal employment opportunity. We believe in connecting with our communities and have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and we believe in sustainable business practices, which include supporting the environment and the communities in which we work.