Senior Fraud Analytics Lead Consultant

Guidehouse Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a Fraud Analytics Senior Consultant Lead to drive advanced analytics across the Cybersecurity Fraud Analytics and Monitoring program.

You will independently tackle difficult technical problems, develop practical recommendations, and guide junior team members. You will analyze structured and unstructured data, build predictive indicators and forensic analytics, and present findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders while coordinating across workstreams at a client

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Operations Research, Information Science, or a related field.
• Five+ years of professional experience supporting fraud analytics, cybersecurity analytics, data science, data engineering, predictive analytics, forensic analysis, investigations, fraud operations, platform advisory, or related technical delivery.
• Experience independently solving difficult technical or analytical problems using professional concepts, procedures, and practical judgment.
• Experience developing system requirements or supporting strategic, tactical, or operational-level planning for analytics, cybersecurity, fraud detection, or data-driven programs.
• Experience analyzing large structured and unstructured datasets, transaction logs, application activity, user behavior, or system data to identify anomalies, patterns, correlations, risks, or potential fraudulent activity.
• Experience supporting predictive analytics, machine learning, statistical analysis, data mining, link analysis, network analytics, text mining, data visualization, or related analytical techniques.
• Experience supporting data extraction, transformation, loading, data integration, data quality review, schema alignment, or analytics workflow improvement activities.
• Experience preparing and presenting technical reports, dashboards, briefings, executive summaries, documentation, or recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support highly specialized fraud analytics activities across the Cybersecurity Fraud Analytics and Monitoring program.
• Coordinate analytical activities across assigned workstreams, review analytical products for quality and consistency, and provide guidance to junior team members supporting fraud analytics initiatives.
• Assess difficult technical and operational problems across fraud analytics, data ingestion, application monitoring, stakeholder coordination, and incident response environments.
• Develop practical alternatives, recommendations, and solution options considering client requirements, priorities, data limitations, and cybersecurity fraud risks.
• Contribute to strategic, tactical, and operational planning for analytics initiatives, onboarding, data source integration, and fraud detection capability expansion.
• Support development, refinement, testing, documentation, and implementation of fraud indicators, analytical algorithms, detection logic, predictive models, and forensic analysis approaches.
• Analyze structured and unstructured data, transaction logs, user behavior, system activity, and investigative information to identify anomalous or fraudulent activity.
• Support root-cause analysis, incident coordination, mitigation recommendations, and timely reporting for suspicious activity and emerging threat patterns.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand user behavior, data quality, and integration requirements.
• Support data extraction, transformation, loading, schema alignment, data quality assessment, data source onboarding, and analytics workflow improvements.

Skills

Fraud analytics

Data science

Cybersecurity analytics

Data engineering

Predictive analytics

Machine learning

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a Fraud Analytics Senior Consultant Lead to drive advanced analytics across the Cybersecurity Fraud Analytics and Monitoring program.

You will independently tackle difficult technical problems, develop practical recommendations, and guide junior team members. You will analyze structured and unstructured data, build predictive indicators and forensic analytics, and present findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders while coordinating across workstreams at a client