Data Visualization Engineer

Job ID: 2618006
Location: Chantilly, VA, US
Date Posted: 2026-10-15
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Modeling/Sim Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking a Data Visualization Engineer to support an SAIC Prime Program supporting the NRO in Chantilly, VA.
Note: Qualified candidates must have a current and active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.
In this role, you'll combine hands-on Tableau expertise with systems engineering and technical advisory skills to deliver high-impact visual analytics that support mission execution and senior leader decision-making. This position is ideal for candidates who enjoy transforming complex data into actionable insights while working directly with Government stakeholders, engineers, and mission partners in a highly visible SETA environment.
Responsibilities to include:

• Design, develop, and deploy new Tableau dashboards that provide mission, programmatic, and technical insights across the Ground Enterprise.
• Enhance and maintain existing dashboards, improving usability, accuracy, performance, and alignment with evolving Government priorities.
• Assess and validate data sources, ensuring data integrity, completeness, and readiness for visualization.
• Collaborate closely with Government stakeholders to gather analytic requirements and translate them into intuitive, high-impact visualizations and data flows.
• Evaluate dashboard architecture and dependencies, providing SETA advisory recommendations to improve reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Conduct data modeling, transformation, and integration tasks to support new visualizations and analytic workflows.
• Perform testing, verification, regression checks, and quality assurance to ensure dashboards reflect accurate, mission-aligned data.
• Document dashboard logic, data pipelines, filters, calculations, and usage patterns to maintain analytic continuity.
• Stay current with Tableau features, visualization best practices, and enterprise BI trends to guide capability enhancements.
  Recommend improvements to strengthen analytic maturity, streamline reporting processes, and support leadership decision-making.

Qualifications
Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience. Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Active/current Top Secret/SCI with polygraph.
• Experience developing Tableau dashboards and transforming complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, data modeling, ETL, and enterprise data platforms.
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community, DoD, or mission-focused environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data visualization skills.
• Experience creating executive-level dashboards and briefing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and customer engagement skills.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced SETA environment.
• Experience supporting the NRO or other Intelligence Community organizations.
• Prior SETA, FFRDC, systems engineering, or technical advisory experience.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .