Sr Cost Estimator Specialist

JOB DESCRIPTION*

Can you translate quantitative data into insight? If so we want you to join our growing Business Analytics team at Quantech Services, Inc.

Overview / Customer Profile

• Seeking energetic professionals with expertise in cost, statistical, economic and/or quantitative analysis to support Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition programs within United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Space Force (USSF).

• Our clients require analytical support for a wide range of systems - including aircraft, radars, IT, agile DevSecOps, cyber, and ISR missions. We support a number of DoD Software Factories implementing agile development frameworks, bringing together disparate systems from multiple services, and common development platforms for weapon systems with common tools with a continuous authority to operate.

• This is an opportunity to develop skills in cost, schedule, and risk analysis while contributing to the successful development of cutting edge modern weapon systems.

General Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of Quantech cost analysts & subject matter experts on a variety of projects

• Develop life cycle cost estimates for DoD weapon system programs

• Analyze historical data and develop analogies and cost estimating relationships using regression analysis

• Understand technology trends and analyze impact on cost

• Analyze software program progress tracking tools (JIRA, Microsoft TFS, etc.) and develop metrics and insights for program managers

• Interview functional specialists in support of estimating methodology development

• Develop risk distributions for cost driver variables & cost estimating relationship equations

• Analyze program schedules and quantify schedule uncertainty

• Study, analyze, and develop metrics for complex modern software development programs

• Build complex spreadsheet-based program cost models used as decision analysis tools

• Apply statistics concepts to quantify the probability of success for program budget and schedule plans

• Conduct business case analyses, trade studies and economic analyses

• Assist program managers in development and execution of contract strategies and program plans

Candidate Strengths

• Proficient in analyzing datasets and developing statistical models, but also able to tackle problems by thinking outside of the box

• Technical fast learner with the ability to communicate with multiple functional teams to gather (programmatic/technical) data and translate it into cost impacts for the government

• Experienced problem solver, comfortable working in ambiguous environments with the ability to lead financial focused conversations with cross functional teams

• Approachable team player with the skillset to successfully work a variety of projects and take direction from multiple sources at once