Description

At ARA, we strive to hire valuable colleagues with not only the right skills but also that demonstrate our core values of passion, freedom, service, and growth. As a senior analyst on our team, you are critical to our customer support and will be responsible for research, analysis, and training important to the success of our projects as well as national security. Everyone who works here is important, from new faces to those who have worked here since the beginning. Your contribution matters and you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact by joining our team!

As a valued team contributor, your tasks will include reviewing project requirements with customers and higher-level management. Developing unique methodology as required and training others in its use. Performing research, collection, and collation of intelligence information. Performing assessments and projections as part of the analysis process. Providing advice, guidance, and direction to the team. Developing technical reports and briefings, project deliverables, and other finished products. Interfaces with external entities. Using computer tools to facilitate analysis tasks. Preparing monthly status reports. May be assigned to customer site and participate in meetings as the representative of the company. May prepare and present technical briefings to customer and upper management. May be required to train customer personnel in analysis methods and/or findings. Requires high-level knowledge of collection methods and production resources and responsibilities. Proficient in the use of computer-spread sheets, databases, and other related tools. Can act as team leader.

Senior Tech SIGINT Analyst SME Required Experience & Skills:

• Hold an active TS/SCI with Polygraph Security Clearance

• Bachelor's Degree with 11+ years of relevant work experience OR 16-18 years of work experience in lieu of a degree

• TechSIGINT analysis experience in either ELINT, FISINT, PROFORMA, or COMEXT

• Shall have experience with legacy TechSIGINT applications such as MARTES, CATS, DEL, PacketSwing, STK, DVT, TASMANIA, CHAUEE, REDHAWK, MEERKAT, or ESP

Anticipated salary range: $115, 500 - $167,100. Offer may vary depending on experience and skill set.

Who is ARA?

Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,042 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software, and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norms. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice in what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at: https://www.ara.com/benefits/

Qualifications

Education

Preferred

• Bachelors or better in Computer Science

Experience

Required

• 11 years: Relevant Work Experience

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)