Senior Data Analyst, Public Sector: Insights & Dashboards

Socket.dev; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale's Data Analytics team is centralized, embedding data analysts across delivery, operations, finance, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into clear, actionable insights.

As a Senior Data Analyst for Public Sector, you'll build analytics solutions from the ground up - partnering closely with cross‑functional teams and leadership to solve complex problems, design dashboards, build tables, and perform ad‑hoc analyses that shape how Scale runs and measures its Public Sector business.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience building with data modeling tools (e.g. DBT).
• Experience building dashboards and reports with BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Metabase).
• Strong business acumen - comfortable partnering directly with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills - able to translate technical analysis into clear, actionable narratives.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast‑moving environment and able to make sound trade‑offs.
• Active Secret U.S. security clearance is required; Top Secret U.S. clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own data quality for your domain - document models, troubleshoot discrepancies, and establish centralized metric definitions
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify, define, and track key metrics to be used in monitoring, planning, and one‑off decision‑making
• Develop repeatable, scalable analytical solutions, such as dashboards, data models, or standard processes
• Partner with Ops to identify and track efficiency initiatives, measuring their impact on cost, quality, and delivery outcomes over time
• Partner with Finance to analyze cost drivers across programs and help inform pricing strategy
• Be willing to deepdive when needed and dig into the messy details to get to the root of a problem
• Initiate and drive complex projects to completion with minimal guidance

Skills

Advanced SQL

DBT

BI Dashboards

Cross-functional teamwork

Business Acumen

Communication skills

Security clearance

Tools

Tableau

Metabase

Job description

Scale's Data Analytics team is centralized, embedding data analysts across delivery, operations, finance, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into clear, actionable insights.

As a Senior Data Analyst for Public Sector, you'll build analytics solutions from the ground up - partnering closely with cross‑functional teams and leadership to solve complex problems, design dashboards, build tables, and perform ad‑hoc analyses that shape how Scale runs and measures its Public Sector business.