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Functional Analyst Expert
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Functional Analyst Expert supporting the Joint Staff/ J8/ Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization (JIAMDO). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Functional Analyst Expert you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Functional Analyst Expert joining our team to provide sound analytically-based findings to inform senior leader decisions on IAMD warfighting capabilities.
This Nimble Fire Senior IAMD Analyst will be responsible for understanding, interpreting, coordinating, and executing IAMD capabilities for the DAF at the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization’s (JIAMDO’s) Nimble Fire Modeling and Simulation events. This position will be responsible for assessing existing and emergent IAMD capabilities and providing subject matter expertise in IAMD Air Force and Space systems, concepts, and issues including, but not limited to, fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missile systems, non-kinetic weapons, radar systems, kill chain analysis, operational planning, command and control relationships, and others. Specifically, as a Senior IAMD Analyst, this position will be providing direct support as a liaison with Air and Space Forces and conducting planning/coordination to ensure accurate portrayal of current and future capabilities at Nimble Fire.
HOW A FUNCTIONAL ANALYST EXPERT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
● Analyzes user needs and performs research and functional analysis on a variety of projects
● Evaluates emerging IAMD systems and enabling technologies to assess their capabilities effectiveness and robustness in an operational environment
user needs and performs research and functional analysis on a variety of projects
● Synchronizes and coordinates efforts across IAMD stakeholders
● Develops alternative analytical approaches to solve complex, not well-defined problems
● Performs critical thinking and reasoning to provide comparative analysis that assess and delineate impacts of alternative courses of action
● Deciphers complex solutions and prepare succinct results for presentation to DoD senior leaders for decision
● Executes high quality, fully coordinated staff action packages meeting standards required for Joint Staff leadership decisions
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
● Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
● Required Experience: 15+ years of related experience
● Required Technical Skills: Must have experience with planning, coordinating, and conducting IAMD analysis including identification of IAMD objectives, methodologies, MOEs & MOPs, and tools and preparation of IAMD analysis plans, analyses, analysis reports and briefings. Must have experience in technical and operational basis of Joint IAMD including understanding: Joint employment concepts/operational requirements and doctrine for conducting active IAMD against enemy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
● Security Clearance Level: Active TS/SCI and SAP eligible.
● Location: On Customer Site
15 + years of related experience
* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
10-25%
U.S. Citizenship Required
The likely salary range for this position is $157,250 - $212,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
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