Senior Data Analyst – AI/ML & Analytics

Onyx Government Services; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Company-paid holidays

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Onyx Government Services is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support Federal data management and Advanced Analytics projects. You will extract data, create reports and dashboards, ensure data quality, and provide ETL support while collaborating with stakeholders to drive insights.

The role requires expertise in Tableau, SAS, Python, and AI/ML, plus strong SQL skills and leadership capabilities. A BI or NACLC Public Trust clearance is required; sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of BI development or data processing/analytical experience.
• At least 5 years of work experience in an analytical role.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Tableau including Desktop, Server/Cloud, dashboards, data visualization, reporting and analytics.
• Experience with SAS development including SAS/Macro, Data Step, and SAS/Access; Enterprise Guide and Enterprise Miner a plus.
• Strong SQL skills and Tableau development experience.
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to partner with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, and business stakeholders on AI and ML initiatives.
• Analyze and prepare data for AI/ML models and support model development, validation and performance analysis.
• Support Generative AI and LLM-related initiatives, including identifying business use cases and evaluating AI-generated outputs.
• Apply Python libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn for data analysis and modeling.
• Strong leadership, communication and writing skills; ability to demonstrate benefits of analytics to clients.

Responsibilities

• Extract data from relational databases, EDW and Foundry for analysis.
• Engage with stakeholders to identify initiatives and solve business problems using data and advanced analytics.
• Perform QA of reporting and dashboard deliverables to ensure data and analysis quality.
• Collaborate to align requirements with data and analytics solutions and empower insights.
• Coordinate and facilitate requirement gathering across discovery, analysis, design and testing phases.
• Monitor business changes and recommend analytics improvements.
• Create Tableau SOPs and document development for knowledge transfer.

Skills

AI/ML collaboration

SQL skills

Data analysis

Leadership & communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Tableau

SAS

Python

Job description

Onyx Government Service is seeking a Senior Data Analyst with AI/ ML, SAS, Tableau and Python experience to support Federal data management and Advanced Analytics projects. This individual will be responsible for creating reports and dashboards, querying databases, data quality assurance, and ETL support.

Security Clearance

Must possess active BI or NACLC Public Trust security clearance(sponsorship not available).

Responsibilities

• Extract data from a variety of sources, such as relational database, EDW and Foundry for use in analysis
• Engage with operational business stakeholders to identify key initiatives and execute solutions to business problems using data analysis and advanced analytics
• Perform quality assurance of reporting and dashboard deliverables to ensure quality of both data and analysis
• Work collaboratively to align business requirements with data and analytical solutions while empowering business to draw insights and analyze data while Identify areas of concern of as-is processes and business dependencies
• Coordinating and facilitating requirement gathering, playing an active role in the discovery, analysis, value validation, design, and testing phases. Ideate with functional analysts and business process owners
• Monitors changes in business, making recommendations where analytics can further improve business
• Create Tableau related Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Document development for peer reference and knowledge transfer

Required Experience / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of Business Intelligence development, or data processing/analytical experience or combination thereof.
• At least 5 years of work experience in analytical role
• Extensive hands-on experience with Tableau, including Desktop, Tableau Server/Cloud, dashboard design and development, data visualization, reporting, and analytics
• Experience with SAS development, including the use of SAS/Macro, Data Step, and SAS/Access. Experience of Enterprise Guide and Enterprise Miner / SAS Data Mining procedures a plus.
• Strong SQL skills and Tableau development experience
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and decision-making skills
• Partner with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, and business stakeholders on AI and machine learning initiatives.
• Analyze and prepare data for AI/ML models and support model development, validation, and performance analysis.
• Support Generative AI and LLM-related initiatives, including identifying business use cases and evaluating AI-generated outputs.
• Apply Python libraries and tools such as Pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn for data analysis and analytical modeling.
• Must have good leadership, communication and writing skills.Ability to show the future and benefits of analytics activities to the client.

Desired Experience / Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Tableau dashboard design and development
• Quality assurance and validation experience, specifically comparing multiple data sources for discrepancies and inconsistencies
• Experience building or operating production systems that integrate generative AI/LLMs, beyond prototype or experimental work.
• Strong understanding of AI output evaluation and quality assessment, not just system uptime.
• Backend or full-stack engineering skills to own the surrounding pipeline including data flow, APIs, and deployment.
• Comfortable with prompt engineering and iterative model tuning as a continuous responsibility.
• Ability to work independently, manage a backlog, and balance delivery speed with accuracy in high-precision domains.

Salary Range

$150,000- $170,000 annually

The salary range for this position represents the anticipated compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, skills, contract requirements, funding and other business considerations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Company-paid holidays
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance