People Analytics & Insights Specialist
$55,200–$126,000 year
On-siteMcLean, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Translate complex workforce and business questions into evidence-based insights by partnering with People leaders and stakeholders to frame analytical problems and test hypotheses. Analyze governed people data from enterprise sources to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, retention, and engagement. Conduct descriptive and diagnostic analyses, validate data quality, and create concise outputs, visualizations, and executive-ready materials using SQL, Excel, and tools like Power BI. Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to non-technical audiences while ensuring accuracy with sensitive data. This role focuses on turning data into decision-ready insights to advance Booz Allen's talent priorities.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship
- 2+ years of experience using data to analyze business, workforce, talent, operational, financial, product, or organizational questions
- 1+ years of experience translating ambiguous business or stakeholder questions into analytical approaches, including defining the problem, identifying relevant data, developing hypotheses, selecting a method, and communicating findings
- Experience using SQL or similar methods to analyze data from enterprise systems, data warehouses, data lakes, or analytics environments
- Experience using Excel to conduct analysis, validate data, reconcile discrepancies, build models, or create stakeholder-ready outputs
- Experience creating analytical outputs, visualizations, dashboards, or decision-support materials using tools such as Power BI, PowerPoint, or Excel
- Knowledge of statistical concepts, including distributions, outliers, correlation, sampling, variance, and hypothesis testing
- Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to non-technical audiences through written summaries, slides, and verbal briefings
- Ability to work with sensitive or confidential data with attention to detail and sound judgment
- Bachelor's degree
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with people analytics, HR analytics, talent intelligence, workforce planning, recruiting analytics, employee listening, compensation analytics, organizational effectiveness, or related workforce topics
- Experience analyzing HR, workforce, or enterprise system data from Workday
- Experience accessing, analyzing, or preparing data in shared analytics environments, including Databricks or data lake, lakehouse, or cloud analytics platforms
- Experience using analytical tools such as Python or R for data manipulation, analysis, automation, or statistical modeling
- Experience with business intelligence such as Power BI and data visualization tools
- Experience analyzing survey data, employee listening data, text data, or qualitative workforce data
- Knowledge of employee lifecycle metrics, including headcount, hiring funnel, time to fill, internal mobility, promotion, attrition, engagement, performance, skills, learning, or employee experience
- Knowledge of data strategy, data governance, metric definitions, data quality, privacy principles, or responsible use of employee data
- Ability to take initiative, operate in an agile and iterative environment, and manage multiple analytical priorities
- Possession of strong presentation skills for conveying complex information to non-technical audiences
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