Freelance Data Analytics Engineer Jobs in Reston, VA

Job Summary:
Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Data Visualization and Augmented Analytics Engineer to support their Analytics Center for Enablement. This role involves designing visualization solutions, leading the integration of augmented analytics capabilities, and driving user engagement to enhance decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Design and implement advanced data visualizations and interactive dashboards that transform complex data into clear, actionable insights, applying strong user experience principles to drive understanding and data-driven decision-making.
• Lead the adoption and integration of Augmented Analytics capabilities, including AI/ML-driven insights, natural language query (NLQ), and natural language generation like “Talk to your Data” features within enterprise BI platforms.
• Lead and evolve self-service analytics (BIaaS) enablement frameworks, providing training, guidance, and reusable assets to empower business users and improve data literacy across the organization.
• Drive enterprise adoption and engagement through Analytics User Communities (Power BI/Tableau User Group etc.), incorporating feedback to continuously improve analytics capabilities and user experience.
• Own and manage the Analytics Service Catalog, ensuring user requests are fulfilled through standardized, governed, and scalable solutions aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Lead modernization efforts by migrating legacy BI assets to enterprise platforms (Power BI/Tableau), improving performance, scalability, and alignment with enterprise data strategy.
• Establish and maintain governance practices for visualization assets, including certification, reuse, lifecycle management, and adherence to data standards.
• Maximize the value of BI solutions by ensuring strong user engagement and platform reliability — tracking usage and performance, managing access/licensing, and providing proactive support to maintain solution integrity.
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and innovation across analytics platforms, user experience, and data consumption patterns.
• Establish and enforce data visualization standards and best practices to ensure consistent, high-quality, user-centric analytics experiences across platforms.
• Provide subject matter expertise in BI and analytics, guiding Agile project teams with technical leadership to drive successful solution delivery.
• Mentor team members and others through Job Rotation/Shadow or skill up program and promote best practices in data visualization, storytelling, and analytics design.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience with UI/UX design principles to develop immersive, interactive, and intuitive visualizations.
• Experience in leading Analytics User Communities, presenting to various audiences, and collaboration at various levels to drive success with Analytics C4E.
• Significant experience in delivering data analytics solutions to accelerate business decisions.
• Proven expertise with using our enterprise anchor BI platforms Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Experience with Augmented Analytics capabilities including integration and roll out of Power BI Copilot/Fabric IQ, Tableau – Pulse/Agent/Next, Databricks Genie or similar.
• Experience working with SQL, Python for Big Data Analytics.
• Experience in documenting BI standards, training end users, and communicating with analytics user communities.
• Experience working with Agile teams in productionizing capabilities at scale ensuring high availability and performance in enterprise cloud ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• Analytical mindset with a strong ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights.
• Demonstrate change management and evangelize adoption of analytics capabilities in Cloud.
• Strong communication and presentation skills and executive presence.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience working with big data sets in Azure Data Lake, Databricks, and Fabric.
• Experience with front end design technologies to build creative widgets.
• Experience in DevOps, monitoring analytics.
• Knowledge of banking/financial industry trends, products, and services.
Company:
Since 1933, Navy Federal has grown from seven members to over 4 million members. And since that time, their vision statement has remained Founded in 1933, the company is headquartered in Vienna, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.