PowerBI/Data Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated, performance driven individual with strong data analytics/science experience to work closely with our Federal and DoD clients. US Citizenship is a requirement to work with our government clients. This is not a remote position. Eligible candidates need to live in Northern VA. This position will require on-site meeting attendance at corporate and/or client locations in Stafford, VA several times a month. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the ability to principally contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman’s portfolios. This role consists of leading the design, development, and deployment of business analytics dashboards using Microsoft Power BI technologies.

A career with Kalman & Company, Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst, you will collaborate with military leaders, engineers, developers, technicians, logisticians, and financial managers to collect, analyze, and communication information that helps ensure the success of programs that are critical to the United States Department of Defense and our allies. You will work individually and as a team to help solve continuously evolving challenges across multiple academic domains and industries.

Benefits

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the government’s most challenging analytics problems by developing decision analyses for military and civilian leaders.
• Support the Business Analytics team via a flexible working structure that balances each employee’s lifestyle while providing opportunities for in-person client and team engagement.
• Join a diverse, inclusive, and growing team that fosters a supportive and encouraging environment to explore a variety of unique projects and clients for career success and fulfillment.
• Take advantage of a competitive salary along with a generous benefits package and paid opportunities for learning and professional development as well as on-the-job training and growth

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements and apply these to the build/test phase of reports and dashboards.
• Identify opportunities to streamline reporting to make processes more automated and less manual.
• Develop and manage organization-wide business intelligence solutions.
• Utilize Power BI to deliver high solutions sourcing a variety of data.
• Create or modify existing report assets.
• Build data visualizations including dashboards and reports.
• Document data profiling and quality assurance results, data dictionaries and analytical findings
• Use data to create predictive models and trend analysis.
• Collaborate with colleagues to define data collection strategies and establish data frameworks.
• Collect, audit, compile, and validate data from multiple sources.
• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques or relational databases and produce ongoing as-needed reports to meet client and/or business needs.
• Effectively communicate analysis to government stakeholders

Required Education/Qualifications:

• US Citizenship
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology or related technical fields
• Minimum of five years overall experience, primarily related to Power BI Analysis, Data Warehouse, and/or Data Analysis
• Strong quantitative skills with ability to critically analyze client requirements, disparate collections of datasets and market intelligence and synthesize all inputs in into coherent, insightful cost deliverables, findings, and recommendations.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to contribute effectively to working groups through oral and written communication.
• Extensive experience of current computing technologies and software applications such as specialized Business Intelligence software, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Access, SharePoint, and other database applications. Power BI, Tableau, and SQL Reporting Services expertise preferred.
• Comprehensive understanding of current principles, practices, and techniques of systems Analysis, Business Analysis, and Business Intelligence
• Proactively integrate new technologies for more advanced analytics including and not limited to Power Flow, PowerApps, AI and Machine Learning
• Expertise in Power BI desktop and cloud platform, as well as gateways and administration support
• Produce and enhance reports and dashboards.
• Skilled in using development tools: Power BI Desktop, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, SQL Server Reporting Services
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing

Preferred Education/Qualifications

• Active Secret Security Clearance
• Knowledge of DoD acquisition, financial, and PPBE processes