Data Exploiter (2023-0263)

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Data Exploiterwith TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our Mission Technology Division working in Reston, VA.

The position will support specializing in "open-source investigations." Use online tools and resources to investigate various national security-related topics that involve foreign entities and events. Will perform dataset collection and exploitation for operational needs. This includes assessments and consultations with internal and external partners for data acquisition and exploitation strategy.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Use different search engines and a wide variety of online databases, archives, directories, and repositories that can provide useful data or documents.
• Evaluate data accessible in the public domain, including foreign social media websites and applications from mobile and stationary platforms.
• Collect and exploit profile, content, or metadata information.
• Evaluate the credibility, accuracy, and bias of the information they find online, and be able to identify logical fallacies, inconsistencies, contradictions, or gaps in the information.
• Use various tools and methods to analyze data, such as spreadsheets, graphs, charts, maps, timelines, or network analysis. They should be able to spot patterns, trends, anomalies, or connections in the data and generate hypotheses or questions based on their analysis.
• Extract, organize, synthesize, and interpret information from different sources and formats.
• Communicate their findings and arguments in clear, concise, written deliverables.
• Cite their sources and provide evidence for their claims.
• Interface directly with Sponsor management for requirements for data collection and exploitation.
• Assist in the integration of data with existing platforms for correlation and analytical insights.
• Conduct technical exchange meetings with stakeholders on business and technical requirements.
• Assist to condition, coordinate, collect, and perform data transfer of data sets for integration and analysis.
• Collect, ingest, and exploit large and small dataset collections.
• Provide field technical and operational support for data analysis, and may require some Temporary Duty travel.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• Demonstrated experience acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources.
• Demonstrated experience structuring large data sets to find usable information.
• Demonstrated experience identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Demonstrated experience defining new data collection and analysis processes.
• Demonstrated experience with collection and exploitation of data on mobile apps including domestic and foreign.
• Demonstrated experience performing data analysis such as gathering information to determine data sources, data targets, data definitions, and data relationships.
• Demonstrated experience working with data in a variety of structured and unstructured formats.
• Demonstrated experience transferring and handling sensitive data.
• Demonstrated experience preparing task plans, task documentation, and overall activity reporting documents.
• Demonstrated experience working with users to define requirements for analysts or operational customers.

• Demonstrated expert proficiency in Sponsor datasets, data collection, and tools.
• Demonstrated experience working both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of economic issues, financial markets, and supply chain analysis.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.