Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst

gdit; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and wellness

401K with company match

Competitive pay

Paid time off

Military-friendly workplace

Job summary

Iron EagleX, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), seeks a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst to lead all-source analytics in Crystal City, VA. You will work with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to produce defensible, data-driven assessments and actionable intelligence for senior stakeholders.

You will guide data-driven analytic workflows, ensure analytic tradecraft remains at the core, and support integration of AI-enabled tools while traveling to CONUS

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience.
• US Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct expert-level all-source analysis using structured analytic techniques and multiple information sources to produce defensible assessments, insights, and recommendations.
• Analyze complex datasets, reporting streams, and mission-relevant source material to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, relationships, risks, and intelligence gaps.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, developers, and analysts to translate mission questions into data requirements, analytic workflows, technical use cases, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise to support the design, evaluation, and refinement of data models, analytic tools, AI-enabled workflows, and decision-support capabilities.
• Review outputs from data science models, AI tools, search systems, automated extraction processes, and analytic platforms for relevance, accuracy, and mission value.
• Support the development of analytic methodologies that combine traditional tradecraft with data-driven techniques, automated discovery, and AI-assisted analysis.
• Identify data gaps, quality issues, source limitations, collection shortfalls, and analytic constraints that affect reliability of assessments or outputs.
• Produce written assessments, briefings, analytic notes, and decision-support products tailored to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with full stack developers and data engineers to ensure analytic workflows and data access meet analyst needs without front-end development responsibilities.
• Apply sourcing, confidence levels, assumptions, and evidence evaluation to ensure transparency and defensibility of analytic products.
• Support integration of AI-enabled tools into analytic workflows by testing outputs and documenting use cases and limitations.

Skills

All Source Analysis

Data Analytics

Knowledge Management

SOP Development

Workflow Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Type of Requisition

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess

Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required

None

Job Family

Intelligence Operations and Analysis

Job Qualifications

• Skills: All Source Analysis, Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Development, Workflow Automation
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 10 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

YOUR IMPACT

Own your opportunity to work with the largest government agency in the nation. Make an impact by advancing the Department of War’s mission to keep our country safe and secure.

OUR COMPANY

Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), delivers agile IT and Intelligence solutions. Combining small-team flexibility with global scale, IEX leverages emerging technologies to provide innovative, user-focused solutions that empower organizations and end users to operate smarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Iron EagleX is seeking a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst to support our analytics team in Crystal City, VA. In this role, you will conduct advanced all-source analysis while working closely with multi-discipline analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and developers to improve the speed, depth, and quality of analytic production. You will apply expert analytic tradecraft to interpret complex information from multiple sources, identify patterns and gaps, develop defensible assessments, and help shape data-driven approaches to mission problems. You will help translate analytic questions into data requirements, evaluate the usefulness of data outputs, provide subject matter context for models and tools, and ensure that technical capabilities remain aligned to impactful analytics.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst, you will help transform complex, multi-source information into clear, timely, and actionable assessments that support decision-making. Your work will directly influence how data, analytics, and AI-enabled tools are applied to real-world intelligence problems. By working closely with data scientists, engineers, developers, and analysts, you will help ensure that emerging technical capabilities are grounded in analytic tradecraft, operational relevance, and mission needs.

JOB DUTIES

• Conduct expert-level all-source analysis using structured analytic techniques, intelligence tradecraft, and multiple information sources to produce defensible assessments, insights, and recommendations.
• Analyze complex datasets, reporting streams, operational information, and mission-relevant source material to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, relationships, risks, and intelligence gaps.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, developers, and analysts to translate mission questions into data requirements, analytic workflows, technical use cases, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise to support the design, evaluation, and refinement of data models, analytic tools, AI-enabled workflows, and decision-support capabilities.
• Review and assess outputs from data science models, AI tools, search systems, automated extraction processes, and analytic platforms for relevance, accuracy, explainability, and mission value.
• Support the development of analytic methodologies that combine traditional all-source tradecraft with data-driven techniques, automated discovery, knowledge management, and AI-assisted analysis.
• Identify data gaps, quality issues, source limitations, collection shortfalls, and analytic constraints that affect the reliability of assessments or technical outputs.
• Produce written assessments, briefings, analytic notes, and decision-support products tailored to mission, operational, and technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with full stack developers and data engineers to ensure analytic workflows, tool interfaces, and data access patterns support realistic analyst needs without assuming responsibility for software development or front-end implementation.
• Apply rigorous sourcing, confidence levels, assumptions, alternative analysis, and evidence evaluation to ensure analytic products are transparent, credible, and defensible.
• Support the integration of AI-enabled tools into analytic workflows by testing outputs, identify failure modes, refining prompts or analytic use cases, and documenting appropriate use cases and limitations.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Expert-level experience conducting all-source analysis in support of intelligence, defense, national security, law enforcement, or mission-focused operational environments.
• Strong understanding of all-source analytic tradecraft, including source evaluation, structured analytic techniques, confidence statements, assumption testing, alternative analysis, and intelligence writing standards.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information from multiple sources into clear, concise, and defensible analytic judgments.
• Experience working with large, complex, or multi-source datasets in support of analytic production, operational assessments, targeting, threat analysis, network analysis, or mission planning.
• Ability to translate mission questions and analytic problems into data requirements, technical use cases, workflow needs, and evaluation criteria for technical teams.
• Experience collaborating with data scientists, data engineers, software developers, or technical product teams in a mission or intelligence environment.
• Working knowledge of data-driven analytic methods, including pattern analysis, anomaly detection, entity resolution, link analysis, geospatial analysis, trend analysis, or network analysis.
• Ability to evaluate technical outputs for analytic relevance, accuracy, completeness, bias, uncertainty, and mission utility.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing analytic assessments, briefings, executive summaries, and decision-support products for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to identify data gaps, source limitations, collection shortfalls, quality issues, and analytic risks that may affect assessments or tool outputs.
• Experience working with analytic platforms, intelligence databases, knowledge management systems, search tools, or data visualization environments.
• Strong attention to sourcing, evidentiary standards, documentation, and analytic defensibility.
• Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional teams while maintaining ownership of analytic judgment, mission context, and tradecraft quality.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments where analytic priorities, data availability, and mission requirements may evolve quickly.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience supporting the development, testing, or operational adoption of AI-enabled analytic capabilities.
• Experience working with data scientists to evaluate model performance, develop test cases, validate outputs, or provide subject matter context for training and evaluation datasets.
• Familiarity with prompt development, retrieval-augmented generation concepts, semantic search, entity extraction, text analytics, or automated summarization workflows.
• Experience with geospatial, temporal, network, or behavioral analysis methods.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, notebooks, or other data analysis tools.
• Experience helping define analytic requirements for data pipelines, structured data products, APIs, search indexes, dashboards, or mission applications.
• Experience mentoring analysts or leading analytic workstreams in a multi-disciplinary environment.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Clearance: Current TS/SCI Clearance with current or willingness to obtain CI polygraph
• Experience: 10+ years of related experience
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Advanced degrees are a plus.
• Role requirements: This position is onsite in Crystal City, VA and requires travel for 60-90 days to CONUS sites each year.
• Due to US Government Contract Requirements, only US Citizens are eligible for this role

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

Rewards

• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match,competitive pay and paid time off

Community

• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results. #iexjobs

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: 10-25%

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Arlington

Total Rewards at GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.