Data Analyst/Governance

Overview

MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE WORK LOCATION - 100% ONSITE - ARLINGTON, VANO THIRD PARTY VENDORSSalary: 130-155k/yr BUT is dependent upon the candidate's skills, experience, education and certifications. Soft Tech offers competitive BENEFITS in the areas of: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, and Paid Holidays.

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed Data Analyst/Governance to support a critical government client in Arlington, VA. This role requires an active Top Secret Security Clearance and focuses on advancing data strategy, governance, and Shared Situational Awareness across the military services to include Army and Air Force operating environments.

This full-time position involves contributing to data governance, policy development, workflow automation, and executive analytics enablement for the customer. The successful candidate shall have demonstrated knowledge of data frameworks, cloud, and innovative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML). The successful candidate will have a working understanding of how the Department of War (DoW) operates, and how to support federal and state-level government organizations.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, documentation, interpretation, and implementation of client-wide IT and data governance policies, in alignment with DoD directives.

• Support the development and use of various algorithms and models to support senior leader decision support, business analytics, and joint all domain operations.

• Identify data inputs leveraging available DoD and client's data sources, manipulate and map data and interfaces, generate output, provide documentation (including fit-for-purpose DoDAF products).

• Organizes and interprets data to inform senior decision-makers and drive successful operations.

• Design dashboard wireframes to guide development based on stakeholder input, mission requirements, and user-centered design principles.

• Coordinate with stakeholders to facilitate data sharing agreements, ensuring compliant and secure access to required information.

• Use Qlik Sense to build and manage basic dashboards and visualizations in ADVANA, DoD’s enterprise data analytics platform.

• Contribute to a structured data project intake and prioritization framework, enabling transparency and accountability in IT service delivery.

• Manage data source mapping and integration using approved architectural and metadata standards (e.g., DoDAF).

• Draft, update, and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) and internal guidance documents related to analytics, policy, and automation activities.