Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst
General Dynamics Information Technology
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Job summary
IronEagleX is seeking a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst to support analytics teams in Crystal City, VA. You will conduct advanced all-source analysis, work with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to improve speed, depth, and quality of analytic production.
You will apply analytic tradecraft to interpret information from multiple sources, identify patterns and gaps, and help shape data-driven approaches to mission problems.
Qualifications
- Expert-level experience conducting all-source analysis in intelligence, defense, national security, or mission-focused environments.
- Strong all-source analytic tradecraft, including source evaluation, structured analytic techniques, confidence statements, assumption testing, and intelligence writing standards.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, defensible analytic judgments.
- Experience with large, multi-source datasets in analytic production, targeting, or threat analysis.
- Translate mission questions into data requirements for technical teams.
- Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and developers in a mission context.
- Familiarity with data-driven analytic methods and visualization environments.
- Emphasis on sourcing, evidentiary standards, and analytic defensibility.
Responsibilities
- Conduct expert-level all-source analysis to produce defensible assessments and recommendations.
- Analyze complex datasets to identify patterns, trends, anomalies and intelligence gaps.
- Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, developers, and analysts to translate questions into data requirements.
- Provide subject matter expertise for design and refinement of data models and analytic tools.
- Review outputs from data science models for relevance, accuracy, and mission value.
- Develop analytic methodologies combining traditional tradecraft with data-driven techniques.
- Identify data gaps and analytic risks that affect assessments or outputs.
- Produce written assessments, briefings, and decision-support products for stakeholders.
- Ensure analytic workflows support analyst needs without front-end development responsibility.
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
Regular
Top Secret/SCI
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
None
Intelligence Operations and Analysis
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
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IronEagleX(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 tooperatesmarter, faster, and more securely in dynamic environments.
IronEagleXis seeking aSenior Principal IntelligenceAnalyst to support ouranalytics teamsin Crystal City, VA. In this role, you will conduct advanced all-source analysis while working closely withmulti-discipline analysts,data scientists, data engineers,anddevelopers to improve the speed, depth, and quality of analytic production. You will apply expert analytic tradecraft to interpret complex information from multiple sources,identifypatterns 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 capabilitiesremainaligned toimpactful analytics.
AsaSenior 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.
- 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 toidentifypatterns, 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 matterexpertiseto 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.
- Identifydata 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,identifyingfailure modes, refiningpromptsor analytic use cases, and documentingappropriate usecases and limitations.
- 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 toidentifydata 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 tooperateeffectively in cross-functional teams whilemaintainingownership of analytic judgment, mission context, and tradecraft quality.
- 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,validateoutputs, 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.
- Clearance:CurrentTS/SCIClearancewithcurrent 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 isonsite in Crystal City, VAand 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**
- Growth: AI-powered career tool thatidentifiescareer steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match,competitivepayand paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
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The likely salary range for this position is $142,800 - $193,200. 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.
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10-25%
Onsite
USA VA Arlington
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.
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