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Celestar Holdings Corporation · 1 month ago

Senior Analytic Methodologist (OBI) - OBIQUA

Reston, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

12+ years exp

Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior Analytic Methodologist (OBI) to support the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under the Object Based Intelligence and Quality Assurance (OBIQUA) task order. The role involves developing analytic strategies, evaluating methodologies, and maintaining domain-specific ontologies to enhance intelligence production and data integration.

EducationInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Supports the development of analytic strategies to resolve key intelligence questions of mission-driven requirements

Works with ambiguous information, deconstructs key questions, suggests methodologies, develops data schema to structured observations, and supports visualization of applicable data

Identifies and evaluates a wide range of existing methods, models, and algorithms to develop more accurate, complete, objective, and anticipatory analysis for intelligence production

Identifies, retrieves, manipulates, relates, and / or exploits structured data sets from all available sources

Uses scripts, visual analytic modeling tools, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for repeatable, widely applicable procedures

Combines empirical or quantitative methods with data analysis for intelligence production of complex and data-driven assessments

Evaluates the capabilities and limitations of analytic methodologies

Design, develop, and maintain domain-specific ontologies to enable semantic representation of data inputs, facilitating integration of data sources and interoperability with internal and external OMSs

Design, develop, and maintain knowledge graphs leveraging domain-specific ontologies to support advance data querying, data visualization, and integration of intelligence functions via OBI standards

Apply semantic web standards (e.g. RDF, OWL, SPARQL) to knowledge model entities, relationships, and vocabulary in accordance with industry and government data standards

Establish processes for ontology version control, change management, stakeholder and governance review to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with IC and DoD policies and standards

Collaborate with team members to enhance semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g. GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL)

Collaborate with team members to validate and refine exploratory efforts to automate ontologies and associated components to ensure semantic accuracy, relevance, and interoperability with existing knowledge modeling and knowledge graph capabilities

Collaborate with team members to evaluate effectiveness of exploratory efforts to automate ontology and associated component generation leveraging qualitative and quantitative metrics

Supports capability development by contributing, editing, and storing ontologies and knowledge models in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories

Qualification

Domain-specific ontologiesSemantic web standardsData analysisKnowledge graphsData queryingIndependent work

Required

Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a master's degree

A minimum of 17 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a bachelor's degree

Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight

Expertise in development of domain-specific ontologies, applying semantic web standards (e.g. RDF, OWL, SPARQL) and government data standards, to enable semantic representation of data inputs, facilitating integration of data sources and ensuring interoperability with various intelligence systems