Strategic Data Analyst for VA Modernization — Hybrid

LMI Government Consulting; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting is seeking a Data Analyst to support VA modernization initiatives with scalable analytical capacity across improvement, data quality, reporting, and decision support. Hybrid work includes ~25% onsite in Tysons, VA, with collaboration across data science, integration, and delivery teams.

Ideal candidates have deep SQL and analytical expertise, experience with multi-source data, and the ability to translate questions into data requirements and metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data analytics, statistics, mathematics, economics, OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of relevant data analysis, BI, performance analysis, reporting, or operational analytics.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency with at least one additional analytical tool (Python, R, SAS, Excel, Power Query).
• Experience preparing and validating multi-source data, including joins, transformations, missing data review, and reconciliation.
• Descriptive statistics, trends, baselines, and interpretation of observational data.
• Analytical tables, dashboards, visualizations, or decision-support products with traceable data and logic.

Responsibilities

• Profile enterprise, operational, workflow, program, survey, or other data for availability and quality.
• Extract, query, clean, transform, and validate data using SQL and tools.
• Perform exploratory, descriptive, trend, cohort, and variance analyses.
• Build analysis-ready datasets, dashboards, and decision-support products for diverse audiences.
• Translate stakeholder questions into data requirements and validation checks.
• Document data sources, definitions, transformations, and limitations for reproducibility.
• Reconcile discrepancies across systems and identify sources of inconsistencies.
• Support data-readiness assessments and data-extraction dependencies.
• Partner with data integration and engineering for new extracts and pipelines.
• Support data science and evaluation with data prep and validation datasets.
• Automate repeatable preparation, validation, and reporting steps with organized code.
• Quality assurance before results release and escalation if needed.
• Communicate findings in plain language and outline uncertainties.
• Lead higher-complexity analyses and mentor analysts in stakeholder discussions.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Excel

Power Query

Education

Bachelor's degree (quantitative)

Tools

Power BI

SQL Server

Databricks

Snowflake

Tableau

Job description

LMI Government Consulting is seeking a Data Analyst to support VA modernization initiatives with scalable analytical capacity across improvement, data quality, reporting, and decision support. Hybrid work includes ~25% onsite in Tysons, VA, with collaboration across data science, integration, and delivery teams.

Ideal candidates have deep SQL and analytical expertise, experience with multi-source data, and the ability to translate questions into data requirements and metrics.