Data Analyst III(Network Traffic Analytics)
$95,000–$125,000 year
HybridMcLean, Virginia, United States or Chandler, Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Analyze satellite telecommunications network data to identify trends, anomalies, service issues, and usage patterns impacting performance. Investigate operational questions by querying large datasets using SQL, Snowflake, and Power BI to build reports, dashboards, and visualizations for technical and business stakeholders. Monitor key performance indicators including throughput, latency, call success rates, and beam utilization while collaborating with RF, network, and systems engineering teams to validate data and support root-cause analysis. Develop deep domain knowledge of Iridium's satellite architecture and customer usage patterns to communicate findings through presentations tailored to executive and customer audiences. Requires 5+ years of experience in data analysis or telecommunications, advanced SQL and Power BI skills, and the ability to work independently across cross-functional teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Typically requires 5+ years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, analytics, telecommunications, or a related analytical role
- Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, aggregation strategy, temporal analysis, query troubleshooting, and the ability to work with large-scale data sets
- Strong Power BI skills, including data modeling, DAX, report design for analysis, drillthrough/drilldown, performance-aware semantic model design, and the ability to build reports that support investigation rather than only static reporting
- Experience analyzing operational, network, telecommunications, or other high-volume datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and performance issues
- Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions or come up with solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical findings to non-technical stakeholders and to answer direct questions from senior leaders or external customers
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams and set priorities without guidance
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues
- High intellectual curiosity and a demonstrated ability to learn a complex technical domain without extensive oversight
- Be able to work in the office at least 60% of the time (3 or more days a week)
- Be able to travel up 10%
- Be a US Citizen
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in telecom, satellite communications, wireless networks, RF systems, network operations, or network quality/performance analytics
- Familiarity with RF/network concepts such as beams, channels, gateways, congestion, handover, link quality, signal strength, dropped sessions, capacity, availability, or quality of service
- Working knowledge of statistical analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, segmentation, clustering, or machine-learning techniques, with the ability to choose practical methods appropriate to the business question
- Analytical engineering experience, including building curated marts, reusable metric layers, data quality checks, or pipelines with tools such as dbt or similar frameworks
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