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# Research Data Analyst - Policy

- **Company:** Educational Testing Service
- **Location:** Princeton, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $76,000.0 - $86,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Systems Development Life Cycle, SAS (Software), Stata, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F852BBC0735D486A9917144184BA38DF/job/

## About the Role

* A Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, or a closely related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.
 * Four to five years of diverse experience in data analysis, handling increasingly more complex and diverse research and development data analyses is necessary.

## Description

Implement and contribute to the planning of assigned data analysis components of medium to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas, and external clients. Data analysts are assigned to work on projects individually or as part of a team, for long or short periods of time depending on the requirements of the project and the specialized skills of the analysts involved., * Implement and contribute to the planning of assigned data analysis components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects requiring the development of complex data analysis systems.

 * Consult with area senior data analysis staff in the application, modification, and design of such systems using established technologies from diverse fields
 * Contribute to the planning of the schedule of tasks required to complete major components of large-scale, complex data analyses.
 * Work effectively in a team setting with researchers, testing program areas, and external clients and take an active role in contributing to team discussions and decisions.
 * Analyze, design, modify, develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex research and development data analyses/methodologies. Identify unusual data analysis situations and problems and develop solutions.
 * Consult area- or division-wide on the development of technologies for executing medium- to large scale, complex research and development data analysis projects/methodologies.
 * Contribute to the evaluation and/or the implementation and support of new hardware/software/data analysis methodologies to support research system development.
 * Contribute to the preparation of data analysis components of proposals and cost/resource estimates.
 * Maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in numerical analysis, computer science and statistical technologies.
 * Assist with area-wide staff training and development initiatives through one-on-one mentoring and/or small group training exercises.
 * Implement components of technical documentation of data analysis systems, solutions and results.
 * May be responsible for developing full technical documentation of data analysis systems, solutions, and results

#LI-MM1

 * Cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
 * Data management manipulation & analysis packages such as R, Pythong, Stata, or SAS;
 * Able to apply with minimal supervision. Advanced knowledge may be required for selected projects.


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