Analyst

Are you ready to join a fast-paced, mission-focused team? Join Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) and advance your career while solving critical security challenges!

We provide research and expertise to the national security community, the US military, law enforcement, and the private sector. Our analysts perform a wide range of work, from due diligence assessments to support for technical programs. This individual will take a data driven approach to working closely with and supporting TRSS Technologists, Project Management, and government partners to identify, evaluate, and research manual, semi-automated, and automated information system components. We leverage openly available data and our own proprietary holdings to develop relevant, insightful products.

In addition to regular assignments, all analysts are encouraged to pursue independent proofs of concept and research projects. All employees participate in TRSS’s Leadership Development, mentorship, and internal programs for career development. Reimbursements for training and tuition are available.

Positions are located at TRSS headquarters in McLean, Virginia and in Tampa, Florida.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with both client managers and fellow TRSS analysts to develop strong collaborative practices
• Develops and implements large or complex projects and solutions and works on multiple projects with varying levels of complexity
• Provide insightful, well-researched analysis and guidance to clients bases on rigorous, in- depth analysis using public records, proprietary data, and open source data
• Participate in analytic development at TRSS, to include mentorship, training and developing analytic best practices
• Demonstrate personal accountability and ownership of work, with an emphasis on exhibiting success in accomplishing progressively more complex tasks, projects, and collaborations

REQUIRED

• US Citizenship
• Active US Security Clearance – Top Secret or the ability to obtain US Security Clearance
• This position will have access to highly sensitive public record information and as a result, all new hires and current employees in positions of this level will be subject to periodic background checks
• Must be creative, intellectually curious, and willing to experiment and work in dynamic organizations and situations, sometimes with little oversight or well-defined requirements

SKILLS AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant military or prior USG experience equivalent experience in lieu of degree
• 3 to 6 years of previous experience relating to research and analysis.
• Good team player / self-starter with the ability to work using own initiative
• Strong planning, time management and organizational skills
• Ability to test ideas and adapt methods quickly end to end from data extraction to implementation and validation
• Strong critical thinking skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated high proficiency using open source and research database tools, with emphasis on incorporating multiple data streams into a single deliverable.
• Experience with data analytics, visualization, statistics, or associated tools (e.g. R, SPSS, Tableau, etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with database, workflow, and orchestration frameworks (e.g. SQL, NiFi)
• Familiarity with  at least one major programming language (e.g. Java, Python, R)
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, graph, and data modeling concepts
• An understanding of distributed computing concepts, search engines, classification algorithms, recommendation systems and relevant evaluation methodologies
• Foreign language skills
• Previous experience with network analysis and/or social network analysis tools and methodologies
• Experience with supply chain analysis and supply chain risk management

ABOUT THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES

TRSS is a wholly US-owned, independent subsidiary of Thomson Reuters. Our analysts combine open-source research with the full suite of proprietary Thomson Reuters data holdings to deliver actionable intelligence to our clients.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world’s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise, and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science, and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization.

As a global business we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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