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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is seeking a cleared, mid-level Data Analyst to support U.S. Cyber Command. The analyst will perform data acquisition, data-quality assessments, governance reviews, and mission-focused analysis to maximize the value of data supporting cyber defense operations.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nPlan and conduct structured reviews of data assets, ingestion pipelines, metadata, classification records, retention practices, and data quality.\n\nPerform data acquisition activities byidentifyingsources, coordinating connections,validatingdelivery, and documenting source requirements.\n\nEvaluate data platforms, governance configurations, access controls, and security-relevant settings for compliance and operational effectiveness.\n\nImplement data-quality checks at ingestion toidentifyanomalies, schema changes, incomplete records, and delivery failures.\n\nProduce evidence-based findings, compliance reports, risk assessments, and technical recommendations.\n\nMap findings to applicable requirements, including NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and program-specific policies.\n\nMaintain findings and remediation logs; assign actions, track progress, verify closure, and escalate unresolved issues.\n\nIdentifydata governance risks, including policy gaps, configuration weaknesses, access-control issues, data-quality problems, and retention concerns.\n\nMaintain audit methodologies, checklists, schedules, procedures, and reporting templates.\n\nMaintain documentation for data sources, pipelines, ingestion schedules, platform configurations, metadata, known issues, and data dependencies.\n\nSupport data lineage, cataloging, metadata management, and source-to-consumer traceability.\n\nCollaborate with data engineers, analysts, cybersecurity personnel, platform administrators, subject-matter experts, and government stakeholders.\n\nCommunicate technical findings and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\nSupport onboarding of new data sources and continuous improvement of data acquisition and governance processes.\n\nUse structured analysis and reporting techniques to support mission assessments, data availability evaluations, and operational decision-making.\n\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\nActive Top Secret security clearancerequired.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, or a related field, and 5 years of relevant professional experience; 4 additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.\n\nCompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent DoD-approved cybersecurity certification.\n\nExperience conducting data-quality, compliance, governance, cybersecurity, or IT audits in a structured environment.\n\nFamiliarity with federal compliance frameworks, including NIST SP 800-53 and FISMA.\n\nExperience evaluating data sources, pipelines, metadata, access controls, platform configurations, or data-governance processes.\n\nExperience developing clear, evidence-based findings reports, compliance documentation, technical assessments, and recommendations.\n\nUnderstanding of data-quality principles, data validation, data lineage, metadata, classification, retention, and access control.\n\nExperienceidentifyingrisks, documenting findings, tracking remediation, and verifying corrective actions.\n\nAbility to assess technical environments and documentation, including data pipelines and platform configurations, with limited or indirect system access.\n\nStrong attention to detail and ability to interpret and apply policy and technical documentation.\n\nStrong written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.\n\nAbility to work independently and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.\n\nWhat Desired Skills You'll Bring:\nTwo or more years of experience using threat-hunting or cyber-defense applications such as Ionic, Superset, Rally, Feed Health, or comparable tools.\n\nExperience administering or analyzing data from Splunk, Security Onion, Gigamon, or comparable cybersecurity platforms.\n\nExperience with data acquisition, source onboarding, ingestion validation, data integration, or data pipeline monitoring.\n\nFamiliarity with streaming technologies and event-driven data architectures.\n\nExperience with data lineage concepts and tools.\n\nExperience with data cataloging and metadata-management tools such asDataHub, Collibra, Alation, Apache Atlas, or equivalent platforms.\n\nExperience with audit-management, governance, risk, and compliance tools or platforms.\n\nExperience developing data-quality rules, validation checks, dashboards, metrics, or operational reports.\n\nExperience supporting NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, STIG, Authority to Operate, or comparable compliance activities.\n\nExperience supporting DoD, federal, intelligence-community, or cyber-defense missions.\n\nExperience leading small teams, coordinating technical activities, or mentoring junior analysts.\n\nFamiliarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or other structured delivery methodologies.\n\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nAn active Top Secret security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $88,400.00 - $154,700.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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