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# Senior Data Analyst - Child Welfare

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $102,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Governance, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Data Analytics, Performance Monitor, Data Pipelines, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** July 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=15fdcec10f462abc

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
 * Based on our contractual obligations, candidate must be located within the United States and US Citizen
 * Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust
 * Prior experience in child welfare, human services, or related social programs (state agency, consulting, or nonprofit)
 * Minimum 3 + years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or reporting
 * Proven experience developing dashboards (preferred: Power BI)
 * Experience with SQL and Python
 * Ability to prepare and execute data pipelines and integrations
 * Strong experience preparing, transforming, and structuring data for reporting and analytics
 * Experience with structured and unstructured data
 * Experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and design user-centered data products
 * Ability to translate business needs into actionable insights and visualization
 * Preference will be given to candidates living in and around Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA and Baton Rouge, LA

What Would Be Nice To Have:

 * Experience supporting state or county child welfare agencies
 * Familiarity with CCWIS or large human services system environments
 * Experience working across multiple data sources or legacy systems
 * Exposure to data governance, metric standardization, or reporting strategy efforts
 * Experience building executive-level dashboards or performance reporting

## Description

We are seeking a Data Analyst with strong child welfare domain expertise to support a state agency modernization effort. This role focuses on working directly with agency stakeholders to translate program needs into data-driven insights, scalable reporting, and actionable dashboards.

You will play a central role in strengthening how the agency uses data to support program oversight, decision-making, and service delivery for children and families. This role offers the opportunity to shape how a state agency uses data to support critical decisions impacting children and families, while building scalable reporting and analytics capabilities that will have lasting impact.

What You Will Do:

 * Partner with agency stakeholders to gather requirements and define analytics and reporting needs
 * Assess and prepare data from multiple systems for analytics and reporting use cases
 * Design and develop operational and decision-support dashboards that drive action
 * Translate program workflows and policy into clear metrics, KPIs, and reporting logic
 * Build and publish user-centered data products that are accessible and meaningful to business users
 * Advise stakeholders on opportunities to expand the role and impact of data across the agency
 * Collaborate across program, policy, and technical teams to align reporting with business priorities


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