Job Description

At Lifescale Analytics, we help achieve data-driven decisions by leveraging strategic technologies to create innovative solutions that ultimately help our clients to navigate their ever-changing data landscape. We have an opportunity for an SAS Analytical (Insider Threat) Consultant, must be onsite in Chantilly, VA. We are seeking a Junior Technical Consultant to support a variety of insider threat tasks for a SAS customer in the Intelligence Community. This consultant would be working with a team of fellow SAS consultants on an ongoing project that started more than 10 years ago and has had a significant impact on national security. The current solution integrates more than 100 different data sources into an advanced SAS Visual Investigator environment with nearly 30 entities and dozens of VA reports woven into the framework. Applicants must be proficient in SAS programming and/or visualization, work onsite for 40 hours/week, willing to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph, and willing to relocate to the DC area.

Applicants responding to this position must be a US Citizen and will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information. Must have lived in the US for the past 5 years.

The Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

Responsibilities:

• Use data in a fast-paced operational environment to address urgent insider threats to national security
• Prepare and integrate structured and unstructured data from disparate sources by developing code in SAS Studio that leverages Viya 4.0 CAS
• Translate customer requirements into interactive SAS Visual Analytics reports through iterative design sessions with stakeholders
• Modify existing ETL code and VA reports to meet emerging requirements related to novel topics of concern
• Develop and maintain entities, pages, alerts, and workflows in SAS Visual Investigator
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in the insider threat domain
• Work 100% on-site at a single Northern Virginia location
• Build a trusted relationship with the customer to provide practical and theoretical guidance in the business value of proposed solutions and set proper expectations to ensure customer satisfaction
• Understand client business pains and translate them into solutions
• Provide reliable delivery of targeted project results through role as expert in the application of specific SAS methodologies, projects, and technologies
• Provide data and analytical expertise to projects
• Participate in product and solution training to acquire and maintain a detailed level of product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings
• Strategize with sales team on objectives for customer meetings, understand how this activity relates to overall sales plan, and provide functional solution leadership for sales opportunities

Required Skills/Experience:

• 100% onsite
• 4 years developing code in SAS Studio that leverages Viya 4.0 CAS
• Must be currently located in or willing to relocate to the Washington DC area
• Must be willing to work from client site up to 5 days per week
• Must be a US citizen willing to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance
• Applicants must be proficient in SAS programming and/or visualization
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics or related field

Preferred Skills:

• TS/SCI security clearance
• Current Top-Secret clearance with CI or full-scope polygraph
• Master's degree preferably in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, or related field

Who we are:

Lifescale Analytics, a small business that provides specialized expertise in data and analytics. Formed in 2012, the Lifescale Analytics team has years of experience providing a spectrum of customized data management services and solutions including Data Management/Analytics, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Services, Business Intelligence and Data Science that focuses on building strong portfolios and programs. Through experience and innovation, we allow businesses, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions and government agencies to manage and proactively make decisions based on their biggest asset, their data. Our specialists are skilled at managing, refining, analyzing, or visualizing information for the specific purpose of increasing the value of IT to benefit from the data science industry.

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