Senior Analytics and Visualization Engineer

Peraton


Job Location:

Herndon, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 104000 - 166000
Posted on: 4 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Responsibilities

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior Analytics & Visualization Engineer to support the BNATCS CTO DCC (Digital Command Center) team to design and develop decision-support dashboards that transform complex program operational schedule requirements risk and aviation data into clear trusted and actionable insights.

The ideal candidate combines dashboard development analytics product thinking and stakeholder communication skills to deliver AI-enabled workflows to rapidly prototype validate and deliver DCC capabilities. This role requires someone who can move beyond predefined requirements and shape dashboard concepts identify meaningful metrics tell compelling stories through data and brief technical and executive stakeholders directly.

The most qualified candidates for this position will think like a product strategist build like an analytics engineer and communicate like a trusted advisor while maintaining the technical and analytical rigor expected of Digital Command Center products.

Key responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

  • Translate ambiguous stakeholder needs and operational questions into dashboard concepts product requirements metrics and analytical workflows
  • Define KPIs thresholds scoring logic and analytical methods supporting Digital Command Center products
  • Assess data quality completeness consistency timeliness lineage and analytical usability
  • Analyze structured and semi-structured data to identify trends dependencies gaps anomalies and decision-relevant insights
  • Partner with data teams systems engineers AI/ML scientists and mission stakeholders to ensure data is accurate traceable and fit for use
  • Define dashboard information architecture navigation filters drilldowns alerts and workstream specific views
  • Design develop test and maintain interactive dashboards analytical applications executive views and decision-support products using AI prompt-driven development low-code tools visualization platforms and conventional coding methods as required
  • Validate AI-generated code queries calculations metrics visualizations and narrative outputs
  • Create clear data narratives that explain what happened why it matters and what actions stakeholders should consider
  • Lead dashboard demonstrations product reviews and analytical briefings for technical program and executive audiences
  • Gather user feedback and translate it into prioritized enhancements backlog items and product roadmap recommendations
  • Contribute to dashboard standards reusable templates visualization components prompt and memory libraries metric catalogs and product documentation

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 8 years of experience with a BS/BA 6 years with a MS/MA or 3 years with a PhD in Data Science Computer Science Information Systems Analytics Statistics Mathematics Operations Research Human-Computer Interaction Data Visualization or a related technical discipline
  • Hands-on proficiency with Python SQL JavaScript TypeScript R or similar languages
  • Proficiency with one or more dashboard or visualization platforms
  • Experience working with relational data JSON CSV Parquet APIs and cloud-hosted datasets
  • Strong understanding of data visualization information hierarchy user interaction and dashboard usability
  • Familiarity with LLMs prompt engineering AI-assisted code generation and human-in-the-loop review
  • Experience developing production-quality dashboards analytical applications data visualizations or decision-support products
  • Experience defining and validating metrics KPIs analytical logic trend analyses scoring models or decision-support methods
  • Experience translating operational or stakeholder needs into analytical requirements and measurable outputs
  • Ability to inspect validate and troubleshoot AI-generated code queries metrics and analytical outputs
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate findingsthrough visual storytelling concise narratives and decision-oriented recommendationsto senior leaders customers product owners or operational stakeholders
  • Strong analytical judgment creativity communication skills and comfort working with evolving requirements
  • US Citizenship with ability to obtain/maintain an FAA Public Trust

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Tableau Power BI Grafana Plotly Dash Streamlit Superset Qlik Looker React Vega-lite Highcharts ECharts or ArcGIS
  • Experience with Databricks Snowflake Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse data lakes data warehouses or lakehouse architectures
  • Familiarity with ETL/ELT data pipelines APIs metadata lineage data catalogs data quality schemas or streaming data
  • Experience with agentic AI architecturesincluding RAG context engineering tool-using agents and structured output validationand frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph Semantic Kernel or LlamaIndex
  • Experience with forecasting anomaly detection risk scoring dependency analysis schedule analytics scenario analysis simulation optimization or geospatial analysis
  • Experience with product discovery design thinking wireframing prototyping usability testing accessibility Section 508 and color-blind-safe visualization design
  • Experience supporting FAA NAS aviation air traffic operations transportation defense command centers infrastructure modernization or other safety-critical operational environments

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$104000 - $166000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position the individuals experience education knowledge skills and competencies as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position employees may be eligible for overtime shift differential and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer including disability and protected veterans or other characteristics protected by law.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

ResponsibilitiesPeraton Labs is seeking a Senior Analytics & Visualization Engineer to support the BNATCS CTO DCC (Digital Command Center) team to design and develop decision-support dashboards that transform complex program operational schedule requirements risk and aviation data into clear trusted...

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