Data Visualization Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Job Title: Data Visualization Engineer

Location(s): Arlington, VA (must be located in the Greater Washington DC area due to regular onsite client meetings)

Workplace: Hybrid

Clearance Required: Secret

Position Overview:

As a Data Visualization Engineer, you will play a key role in transforming complex datasets into clear, compelling, and actionable visual narratives. Working closely with an advanced Data Science team, you will develop interactive dashboards and visual tools—primarily using Tableau—to help stakeholders uncover insights, drive decisions, and communicate the value of data.

This position requires a strong sense of design, creativity, and attention to detail, along with the technical ability to extract, transform, and visualize large, diverse datasets.

Position Requirements:

• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate sophisticated analytical models and results into intuitive, visually engaging Tableau dashboards.
• Obtain, integrate, clean, and prepare data for analysis from a wide variety of sources and formats.
• Explore, analyze, and summarize large datasets using interactive dashboards and visual techniques to enable effective decision-making.
• Build scalable, repeatable solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and visualization within custom client applications.
• Deliver tools, templates, and training that empower users to independently explore, analyze, and interpret their own data.
• Maintain familiarity with other visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Qlik) as required for integration or cross-functional needs.
• For those interested, this role also offers the opportunity to deepen your understanding of data science techniques and expand your skills in collaboration with a high-performing analytics team.

Required Clearance: Active Secret Clearance

Required Education: Bachelors Degree

Required Skills / Experience: 3+ Years Tableau visualization skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Data/Business Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience in data visualization, business intelligence, or analytics.
• Proven expertise in Tableau, with the ability to design intuitive and impactful dashboards for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong SQL skills and experience identifying and resolving data quality issues.
• Experience extracting, transforming, and structuring data to support both exploratory analytics and operational reporting.
• Strong creative and visual storytelling skills with an eye for design, usability, and user experience.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Interest in expanding data science capabilities is welcomed and supported through hands-on collaboration with a highly skilled analytics team.

About Elder Research, Inc

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans



Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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