Analyst - Defense Acquisition

The role

The Defense Acquisition Data Analyst ensures the accuracy of data used for defense acquisition. This person acts as a bridge between acquisition professionals and engineers to improve models, pipelines, and products.

What you will do

• Be the authority on defense data sources.
• Explain reporting lags, coverage gaps, and data limitations.
• Connect budget requests to programs, contracts, and organizations.
• Flag data that does not match how acquisition or budgeting works.
• Advise product and engineering teams on data interpretation.
• Evaluate AI outputs by writing test questions and reviewing answers.
• Support customers by explaining data sources and caveats.
• Capture and encode SME knowledge to improve systems.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in defense acquisition, budgeting, or contracting as a government employee or contractor.
• Complete working knowledge of the defense acquisition system including JCIDS, PPBE, and DAS.
• Fluency in budget concepts including appropriations, colors of money, program elements, and justification exhibits.
• Understanding of contracting vehicles, contract types, awards, and modifications.
• Deep familiarity with DoW data systems of record.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in Excel or similar tools.
• Ability to explain complex concepts plainly to engineers, customers, and executives.
• Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete data.
• Strong written communication.

Nice to have

• DAWIA / DAU certification (Program Management, Contracting, or Business – Financial Management)
• Experience at DoD/DoW, a military service, DIU, or a defense-focused consultancy or FFRDC
• Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval, or evaluating AI-generated answers
• Experience querying data with SQL or Python
• Active security clearance

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home when needed
• Sizeable equity
• Flexible vacation time
• Full health, dental, and vision insurance

About the company

Obviant is building a data source of truth and AI tools for defense acquisition. They fuse information from thousands of sources to provide intelligence for budget, programs, and organizations.