Strategic Initiative Officer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Tuition assistance

Paid leave

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Strategic Initiative Officer Senior in St. Louis to translate enterprise strategy into action, manage data architectures, and track performance across staff offices and mission partners.

You will help ensure content discoverability, governance, and measurable execution while coordinating planning and documentation. The role requires experience with GEOINT, data management, and strong communication skills to align national security priorities with policy guidance.

Qualifications

• Experience with Intelligence Community data and GEOINT production.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel for complex formulas to extract and analyze data.
• Experience performing data-quality analysis, preparation, cleansing, formatting, and transformation.
• Ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal products and coordinate with executives, managers, mission partners, and team members at all organizational levels.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience supporting strategic initiatives, requirements management, data analysis, or mission planning; or 8+ years in lieu of a degree.

Skills

IC data & GEOINT

MS Excel formulas

Data quality analysis

Written & verbal communication

TS/SCI clearance

Executive coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Esri ArcMap

ArcGIS Enterprise

Survey123

Python

HTML

Jupyter Notebooks

Job description

Join a culture of empowerment and connectivity.

Develop your craft

Learn the skills you need to accelerate your career.

Discover benefits that support your life and work.

Innovate with intention

Build mission-ready tech that protects the nation.

Strategic initiatives succeed when content is discoverable, data is governed, and execution is measured. As a Strategic Initiative Officer, you’ll help translate enterprise strategy into action, improving how geospatial content is accessed, how requirements and data architectures are managed, and how performance is tracked and communicated. In this role,you’ll support enterprise content and data management initiatives while coordinating operational planning and integration activities across staff offices and mission partners. You’ll assess content discoverability and accessibility, contribute to strategic business plans, and prepare planning documents, standard operating procedures, briefings, and other materials that support coordinated execution.

You’ll help manage requirements and data architecture artifacts, establish best practices and repeatable processes, and maintain traceability between requirements, products, and mission outcomes. You’ll also define and analyze performance metrics, recommend actions and process improvements, and help align staff documentation with national security priorities, Intelligence Community and Department of Defense directives, strategic planning guidance, and other applicable policies.

You’ll participate in enterprise and division level forums, document decisions, and coordinate follow-up actions through completion. Under government direction, you’ll also serve as an interface among customers, mission partners, and source providers. Your ability to communicate clearly, analyze complex information, and connect strategic objectives to measurable execution will be essential to advancing the mission.

Work with us to strengthen how enterprise GEOINT content and data support mission decisions.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

Strategic Initiative Officer, Senior

The Opportunity

Strategic initiatives succeed when content is discoverable, data is governed, and execution is measured. As a Strategic Initiative Officer, you’ll help translate enterprise strategy into action, improving how geospatial content is accessed, how requirements and data architectures are managed, and how performance is tracked and communicated. In this role,you’ll support enterprise content and data management initiatives while coordinating operational planning and integration activities across staff offices and mission partners. You’ll assess content discoverability and accessibility, contribute to strategic business plans, and prepare planning documents, standard operating procedures, briefings, and other materials that support coordinated execution.

You’ll help manage requirements and data architecture artifacts, establish best practices and repeatable processes, and maintain traceability between requirements, products, and mission outcomes. You’ll also define and analyze performance metrics, recommend actions and process improvements, and help align staff documentation with national security priorities, Intelligence Community and Department of Defense directives, strategic planning guidance, and other applicable policies.

You’ll participate in enterprise and division level forums, document decisions, and coordinate follow-up actions through completion. Under government direction, you’ll also serve as an interface among customers, mission partners, and source providers. Your ability to communicate clearly, analyze complex information, and connect strategic objectives to measurable execution will be essential to advancing the mission.

Work with us to strengthen how enterprise GEOINT content and data support mission decisions.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have

• Experience with Intelligence Community data and product types, missions, and functions, including GEOINT requirements and production processes
• Experience using standard business applications for presentations, word processing, and spreadsheet analysis
• Experience using spreadsheets to integrate, analyze, and clearly present data and performance metrics
• Experience developing complex Microsoft Excel formulas to extract and analyze information from large datasets
• Experience performing data-quality analysis, preparation, cleansing, formatting, and transformation
• Ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal products and coordinate with executives, managers, mission partners, and team members at all organizational levels
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Bachelor’s degree and6+ years ofexperience supporting strategic initiatives,requirements management, data analysis,ormission planningor8+ years ofexperiencesupporting strategic initiatives, requirements management, data analysis, or mission planning inlieu of a degree

Nice If You Have

• Experience using Esri ArcMap or other GIS tools to extract, analyze, and relate geospatial data to performance metrics and other information sources
• Experience configuring or managing ArcGIS Enterprise capabilities, including ArcGIS Dashboards, Experience Builder, Web Maps, and Sites
• Experience with enterprise geodatabase architecture and Survey123, including Survey123 Connect andXLSForms
• Experience defining future data requirements and leading prioritization processes informed byNSG‑levelguidance
• Experience supporting the prioritization and coordination of production requirements from Combatant Commands, military services, and external agencies
• Experience aligning plans, requirements, and supporting documentation with higher-level directives and policy guidance
• Experienceestablishingor improving intake, prioritization, change-control, document-governance, and related business processes
• Knowledge of national security planning and prioritization frameworks, including the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan and National Intelligence Priorities Framework
• Ability to read and interpret Python, including Jupyter Notebooks, HTML, and Arcade to troubleshoot,maintain, or document GIS applications and workflows
• Possession of strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills for complex mission and organizational challenges

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,500.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

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 interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.