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Operations Research Analyst - Team Lead

SMX, Tampa, FL


The SMX GOST Cell is seeking an Operations Research Analyst - Team Lead to join our team in providing cutting edge analytics in support of the Global Combatant Commands. Specifically, this role entails conducting advanced unclassified data research and analysis as well as providing direction, guidance, and leadership to a 3-5 person analytic team.

This position requires a DoD TS/SCI security clearance which requires US citizenship for work on a DoD contracts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Perform advanced data identification, gathering, analysis, fusion, and evaluation of open-source and commercially available data, products, and services
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analytic techniques to integrate and analyze data, solve problems, and effectively communicate results to senior leaders and decision makers
  • Apply expertise in operational support to identify information gaps and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis to enhance the client mission
  • Support prioritization and scoping of client requests for support
  • Delegate, task, and execute analytics and production within the team, and ensure appropriate analytic processes are executed and final products are technically sound
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to analysts in the cell and coordinate with and inform leadership of operational challenges as needed
  • Perform SMX supervisory duties, including: timecard approval, expense report approval, quarterly reviews, yearly reviews, and provide merit-based salary recommendations
  • Assist in developing input, metrics and assessments to weekly activity reports and monthly executive summaries to Senior Operations Research Analyst

Required Skills & Experience
  • Required clearance: TS/SCI
  • Demonstrated ability to operate in a team environment in researching multi-faceted problem sets in a dynamic environment
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently in performing research, data fusion, and analysis of multi-discipline datasets
  • Ability to acquire, display, and analyze spatio-temporal data
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skills and tradecraft standards to deliver analytic findings in textual form, graphic annotation, or other formats as directed by the government customer, and develop and present briefings to support customer requirements
  • Familiarity with commercial datasets commonly used in support of Law Enforcement and Department of Defense information and analytic operations
  • Experience converting data collected from multiple sources to perform geospatial analysis
  • Experience utilizing commercially available analytic toolsets, including but not limited to: Analyst's Notebook, ArcMap/ArcPro, Google Earth

Desired Skills & Experience
  • Prior formal experience providing leadership and guidance to an analytic team
  • Analytic support to SOF
  • Knowledge of the targeting cycle
  • Knowledge of other intelligence disciplines, including signals intelligence (SIGINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT) , and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • Experience with publicly available information (PAI) analytic principals

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Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation.