Lafayette Group · 2 weeks ago
Cybersecurity Data Visualization Analyst
Lafayette Group is seeking experienced professionals to provide advanced consulting support for federal cybersecurity programs. The Cybersecurity Data Visualization Analyst works within a team that facilitates the collaboration and coordination of national cyber planning and defense activity, leveraging modern approaches to business analysis and data analytics to improve client mission outcomes.
AssociationCyber SecurityGovernmentInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Provide technical expertise in the use of various data applications, tools, and services
Evaluate and recommend available data management tools, services, and products to support validated user and/or system requirements
Maintain a strong, holistic understanding of client mission, operations, and strategic priorities to inform development of appropriate decision tools (e.g., dashboards)
Evaluate current visualization approaches and then work systematically with internal team and clients to identify, define, and develop use cases for visualization. Work with clients to prioritize against resources and strategic mission value
Sequentially and incrementally build out information visualization use cases according to an Agile-like delivery methodology. Apply user centered design methods to achieve information visualization solutions that are fit to the way that client stakeholders perform their missions. Make optimum use of data analytics and visualization tools available in client’s tightly security-constrained IT environment
Respond to ad hoc client needs arising from a dynamic, continually changing operating tempo. Reprioritize work activities on the fly and clearly and proactively communicate the resulting impacts to stakeholders awaiting other deliverables in backlog
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, engineering, or other relevant discipline
7+ years front-line technology consulting experience with a proven track record of delivering data analytics work products that address questions and decisions of central importance to clients' missions
Fluency in leading approaches to user-centered design (UCD); implementation and execution of repeatable UCD methods that capture analytics consumers operations and inject relevant information into them
Experience generating data products and reports that organize data analysis in a consumable format for a broad range of stakeholders, including interactive data visualizations and infographics
Demonstrated experience using tools like Tableau, PowerBI, kibana, and Grafana to present mission information in intuitive, useful interfaces. Realization of user journeys and workflows through mission information (data) that allow analytics consumers to quickly navigate through a sequence of questions
Proficiency with analytics information assembly via relational databases and other structured-information technologies. Fluency in SQL with the ability to quickly construct queries from denormalized and normalized data structures
Keen understanding of the value of data quality and its importance to effective data analytics; ability to articulate essential quality aspects of available data to clients and limitations of what can be learned from them
US citizenship with an ability to obtain and maintain DHS Suitability (EOD)
Preferred
Active TS security clearance and SCI eligibility
Prior consulting or program support experience with DHS, CISA, or other federal cybersecurity organizations
Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Service Now, and other similar tools
Experience with business and logical data modeling; ability to recognize mission-essential information in operational activities and procedures and conduct systematic deconstruction of information
Conversance with business analytics techniques, particularly descriptive analytics. Familiarity with basic statistical methods. Ability to clearly discern which statistical methods are best suited to a given question, and to articulate limitations in certainty from statistical results
Experience in Agile project management; demonstrated ability to build a team, scope tasks, map dependencies, lead sprint and epic planning, and communicate clearly with clients
Experience with business process modeling and mining, methods and techniques to document operational workflows, and knowledge of methods to identify mission information exchanges within workflows and associate them with technical data elements in client's mission information environment
Ability to take initiative and work independently while maintaining excellent communication with project leadership
Company
Lafayette Group
Lafayette Group focus on the public safety and national security needs of Federal, State, and local government agencies.