
Data Analyst
Sterling, VAFull-time$133–226K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
BAE Systems seeks a Data Analyst to support research, development, and analytics for a cloud-based enterprise lab spanning multiple classification levels. The analyst will explore data for intelligence, identify leads, and develop tradecraft to address customer needs. The role also involves working with customers to validate requirements and evaluating IT platform and infrastructure alternatives.
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Job Description
BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of War, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of War, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.
We are looking for tech-savvy Data Analyst with data processing skills and Intel Community experience who wants to grow and develop by initiating analysis on a unique client data set. The program delivers a new Enterprise lab environment in a cloud-based environment across multiple classification levels. The Data Analyst will support Research & Development and Analytics of the new lab environment. The lab supports new and emerging paradigms to support and enhance customer capabilities and tradecraft. The enterprise lab environment will encompass multi-intelligence data infusion to enable innovative tradecraft development modeling and simulation to provide solutions for customer problems and needs. The selected data anlalyst will leverage the candidate s digital savvy and capacity for deep research and creativity to spot non-obvious targets and intelligence within a fluid and rapidly evolving market segment by applying data analytical tradecraft.
As the Data Analyst you will:
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Drive operations
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Uncover leads in large data sets
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Explore acquired data for intelligence
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Build technical tools/processes to improve overall operational effectiveness
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Working with the customer to understand and validate requirements.
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Evaluating total cost of ownership and return on investment of various IT platform/infrastructure alternatives.
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Required Education, Experience, & Skills
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Bachelor's Degree and 6 years work experience or equivalent experience
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Ability to script complex queries to perform data analysis
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Ability to apply data organization skills
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Excellent organizational and follow through skills.
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Strong communication (written and verbal) skills.
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Detail oriented with problem-solving skills.
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Proficient in Microsoft Office
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- Cybersecurity, cyber operations, computer science, or software engineering background
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $132962 - $226035
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,303 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$133–226K/yr
- Virginia median$104–150K/yr267 salary ranges
- US median$89–134K/yr3,271 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is 40% above the Virginia median midpoint ($128K) — in the top quarter of Data Analyst salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 442 open Data Analyst jobs in Virginia and 5,303 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 3,974 postings).
- Education
- 2,267 of the 5,303 open Data Analyst jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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