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About Systecon North America
Systecon provides industry leaders worldwide with revolutionary software for optimization and decision-making, enabling clients to design, develop, procure, and implement solutions that are cost-effective throughout their product s life cycle. Our analytics platform for predictive analytics, optimization, simulation, and cost analysis makes it possible to optimize and analyze any scenario, from small conceptual studies to the world's largest and most complex and demanding technology programs. Systecon employees have the expertise, knowledge, and experience from hundreds of projects and applications, providing clients with guidance, methodology, training, and support to manage complex systems successfully.
At Systecon, we pride ourselves on having a tight-knit, collaborative, family-like culture. Every member of our team makes an impact on our customers and our organization every day. Having the ability to avoid red tape and bureaucracies that often come with working at a large organization usually feels like a breath of fresh air for our team members with prior experiences and allows us to move quickly. We strive to lead the industry in being a wonderful place to work where we can have fun while accomplishing our customer s and company s objectives at the same time.
Job Overview
Systecon seeks a Junior Analyst in Weapon Systems Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, and Logistics Support. As a Junior Analyst, you will provide programmatic and technical support to DoD programs, Defense, and Commercial Industry customers charged with planning, assessment, management, and decision-making for all stages of weapon system life cycle support, including system design and development; resource scheduling and requirements planning and analysis; program documentation development; and other aspects of program coordination and execution.
Junior Analysts also Implement methods, tools, and algorithms, including preliminary data exploration, preparation and visualization, model calibration, specification or estimation, and validation and verification using a comprehensive range of technologies (e.g., software packages, programming languages, computation environments) and multiple structured and unstructured data sets. Interpret and evaluate the results of data science methods, models, and algorithms. Translate the meaning, limitation, and scope of results for impactful outputs.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Provide analytical and operational expertise in modeling, simulation, and analysis of defense capabilities.
- Conduct data collection, organization, and analysis. Evaluates program documentation to gather proper input data and exercise judgment in selecting defaults where data is sparse.
- Maintain and update data and model input files to support studies and analysis efforts; use those data, model input files, and associated software to support special requests for analysis and decision support
- Generate unique displays, charts, graphics, data pulls, comparisons, and other analyses; and archive study data and retrieve data from previous studies from archives
- Apply analytic techniques such as statistical analysis, modeling, forecasting, and measurement to effect analyses, cost analysis, flow modeling, forecast modeling, linear programming, simulations and queuing theory, and business reengineering modeling
- Support project teams to develop executable analytic solutions and provide onsite technical expertise to customers
- Support implementations and usage of products; Help resolve issues that may arise in their implementation and support
- Master OPUS Suite capabilities and be able to articulate its various value propositions to different target audiences. Understand what the software does, what services are provided, and what support is available
- Draft correspondence, reports, white papers, minutes, spreadsheets, communications products, briefs, and other documentation. Develop educational-focused documentation for re-use
- Maintain and track action items and participate in acquisition information management
- Effectively balance competing priorities while coordinating subtasks with team members
Qualifications
- Demonstrated Ability to work in dynamic and challenging environments.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Operations Research, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or Engineering-related discipline.
- Multiple combined experience performing operations research-type activities in the military acquisition or support environment, including experience in systems acquisition analysis and logistics analysis, is a plus but not a requirement.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience providing analytical support to wargaming, security cooperation, modeling and simulation, and occupational specialty analysis, a plus but not a requirement.
Benefits Package:
Every member of our business development team is offered the following benefits:
- Health and Dental Insurance for the employee and their dependents with no monthly premium charged to the employee (Systecon pays the entire monthly premium).
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- 401K with company match
- Life Insurance plan
- 15 days of PTO a year
- Free Parking at our Arlington, VA office
- Access to the fitness center at our Arlington, VA office
- Company laptop
- Tuition Assistance Program
- 9-80 work schedule (every other Friday is an off day)
- Performance Bonuses
- Remote Work