Entry Level Excel Data Analyst Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

The Opportunity:
As data analyst, you love diving into data and turning it into meaningful insights. With the abundance of structured and unstructured data, you understand the importance of transforming complex data sets into useful information to solve challenges. As a data analyst at Booz Allen, you can use your skills and experience to support a mission and use data for good. We need a data analyst like you to bring your knowledge to support the United States Marine Corps.

As a client-facing data analyst on our Global Defense Team, you'll work closely with Marines to understand their questions and needs and then dig into their data-rich environments to find the pieces of their information puzzle. Not only will you provide a deep understanding of their data, but you'll also advise your client on what the information means and how it can be used to make an impact on strategic engagements, process improvement, visualization, and analysis.

How You'll Contribute:

• Use your technical knowledge and analytical mindset to support client and stakeholder relationships.

• Identify, connect, and consolidate data from multiple sources across communication functions, including social and digital media analytics, media monitoring platforms, survey and engagement data, website analytics, and internal reporting systems.

• Build and maintain data pipelines and connectors such as Power Automate flows, Dataverse tables, Excel, and SharePoint sources to automate recurring data ingestion.

• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of communication data to identify trends, patterns, correlations, and gaps over time.

• Translate communication goals and objectives into measurable indicators, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) across outputs, outtakes, outcomes, and organizational impact.

• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting processes using Power Automate and other Microsoft Power Platform tools.

• Design and build interactive dashboards, reports, and data models that present assessment findings clearly to senior leaders and staff.

• Develop recurring and on-demand visual products such as trend charts, scorecards, and heat maps that communicate performance against KPIs.

Work with us to help drive large-scale communication strategy and process decisions through data insights.

Join us. The world can't wait.

You Have:

• Experience with building interactive dashboards, reports, and data models

• Experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data visualization, and predictive modeling

• Experience using Microsoft Power Platform Tools such as Power Automate

• Experience with Python including Pandas, NumPy, API integration, SQL, ETL, and ELT

• Ability to brief senior leaders

• Ability to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of data to identify trends, patterns, correlations, and gaps over time

• Ability to build and maintain data pipelines and connectors to automate recurring data ingestion

• Secret clearance

• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience building internal analytics platforms and data products

• Experience with translating leadership priorities and assessment requirements into analytic products

• Experience with Databricks or PySpark

• Knowledge of application architecture design

• Knowledge of machine learning including classification, clustering, and evaluation metrics

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.