This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.   

Work on things that matter

Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. 

Built for a remote life

Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s welcomed. 

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time.. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.

Veterans Affairs

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable VA to increase the usage, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities: 

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Data Analyst impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s data strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in data analytics processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Data Analyst include: 

• Extensive knowledge and experience with data visualization and reporting; with the ability to communicate best practices; understands and communicates UX implications associated with data visualization 
• Effective communicator with the ability to explain trends across data sources using statistical performance metrics to inform customer goals and outcomes
• Leads efforts to analyze, manipulate, clean, and/or process large data sets using statistical software languages
• Manages team working sessions, following and improving processes and workflows for maintaining high quality data and reporting
• Delivers data analytics methodologies/improvements with minimal practice guidance and support
• Collaborates with program teams on larger projects and mentors more junior team members
• Leads the development of innovative solutions for most complex program problems, spots inconsistencies and edge cases
• Effectively communicates data analytics issues and develops solutions with team members and external stakeholders
• Able to interact at a technical level with closely adjacent data practices such as statistical modeling and data pipelines
• Proactively identifies and leads investigations, working with stakeholders and team on scope and plan
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates and develops/grades homework
• May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years professional experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Resource Management, Industrial Engineering, or related fields
  • Educational Substitution:  10 years of relevant experience
• Expert level SQL experience
• Experience with Databricks, Redshift or similar (MPB warehouse or lakehouse)
• Experience with PowerBI
• Ability to gather requirements and context from subject matter experts (SMEs), and synthesize into meaningful data models
• Experience working in a greenfield environment, operating independently as a key contributor driving data strategy
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment, especially with researchers
• Identify relevant data sources, working with/through gatekeepers to do so 
• Experience creating or modifying data pipelines
• Data visualization best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with customer survey data (Qualtrix, Medallia, etc.)
• Familiarity with web or mobile analytics data (Google Analytics, etc.)
• Experience with Python (especially NumPy, pandas libraries)
• Experience with text analytics, topic modeling, sentiment analytics, etc.
• Prior Government contracting experience highly preferred

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join/

Benefits

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility . The range of starting pay for this role is $115,000 - $125,000 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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