Senior Analytic Methodologist (OBI) with Security Clearance

Prescient Edge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Career development

Job summary

Prescient Edge seeks a Senior Analytic Methodologist to design ontologies and knowledge graphs for intelligence tasks in a secure environment.

The role emphasizes semantic data modeling, data interoperability, and advanced analytics using OWL and SPARQL, with strict security clearances (TS/SCI with CI POLY) or eligibility.

Qualifications

• Experience designing analytic strategies for intelligence questions.
• Familiarity with ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic data modeling.
• Ability to work with data from multiple sources and ensure interoperability.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain ontologies for semantic data representation.
• Develop knowledge graphs to support advanced data querying and visualization.
• Apply semantic web standards (OWL, SPARQL) to models and vocabularies.
• Establish processes for version control, governance, and compliance with IC/DOD standards.
• Collaborate with teammates to validate exploratory efforts and automate ontology components.

Skills

Analytic method dev

Security clearance TS/SCI

Education

Master’s Degree in related field

Bachelor’s + 5 years senior experience

Tools

OWL/SPARQL

Graph databases

SQL/SHACL

Job description

Sr. Analytic Methodologist (OBI) Benefits: At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged. Description:
• Analytic Methodologist - 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.
• Identified and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production.
• Identified, Retrieves, manipulates, relates, and/or exploits structured data sets from all available sources.
• Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and 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. Specific OBI duties:
• 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., OWL, SPARQL) to knowledge model entities, relationships, and vocabularies 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.s, 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. Desired experiences:
• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years. Desired education:
• 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: or have a bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related Senior experience for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree. Security Clearance:
• Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY. Location:
• NCR to include Maryland and Virginia.