Insider Threat - SAS Consultant, Lifescale Analytics, Falls Church, VA
Lifescale Analytics -
Falls Church, VA,
US
Insider Threat - SAS Consultant
Date Posted: 2024-05-18
Job description
Who we are:
Lifescale Analytics, a woman-owned small business (WBENC and WOSB certifications) 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.
Employment Qualifications:
Applicants responding to this position must be a US Citizen and may be subjected to a government security investigation which requires possessing the ability to view classified government information, background checks and drug screening. All applicants applying must have lived in the US for the past 5 years and cannot have traveled out of the country more than 6 months (cumulatively) in the past five years. (Military Service excluded).
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.
Job Title
Insider Threat - SAS Consultant
Location
Falls Church, VA US (Primary)
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
None
Security Clearance Required
Top Secret
Job Description
We are seeking a Junior Insider Threat - SAS 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, must currently hold a TS/SCI security clearance and willing to go through a polygraph.
What you'll do:
Job Requirements
Other Responsibilities:
What we're looking for:
Additional Preferred (nice to have one or more) qualifications:
We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.
Lifescale Analytics, a woman-owned small business (WBENC and WOSB certifications) 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.
Employment Qualifications:
Applicants responding to this position must be a US Citizen and may be subjected to a government security investigation which requires possessing the ability to view classified government information, background checks and drug screening. All applicants applying must have lived in the US for the past 5 years and cannot have traveled out of the country more than 6 months (cumulatively) in the past five years. (Military Service excluded).
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.
Job Title
Insider Threat - SAS Consultant
Location
Falls Church, VA US (Primary)
Job Type
Full-Time
Career Level
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Travel
None
Security Clearance Required
Top Secret
Job Description
We are seeking a Junior Insider Threat - SAS 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, must currently hold a TS/SCI security clearance and willing to go through a polygraph.
What you'll do:
- 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.
Job Requirements
Other Responsibilities:
- 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.
What we're looking for:
- Must be currently located in or willing to relocation your own expenses to Falls Church, VA area.
- Must be willing to work from client site up to 5 days per week.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics or related field.
Additional Preferred (nice to have one or more) qualifications:
- Current Top Secret clearance with CI or full-scope polygraph
- Master's degree preferably in Business, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, or related field.
- Prior experience with Agile development.
- Analytics, business intelligence and/or data management experience.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work as an individual or part of a team.
- Knowledge of SAS products, peripheral technologies, and implementation best practices.
- Good problem solving, organizational, decision-making written, oral, and interpersonal skills.
- Previous Federal government experience.
- Understanding of open-source programming languages.
We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.