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Posted on 2026/01/17

Service Desk Analyst - Poly

BigBear.ai

Columbia, MD, United States

Full-time

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (i.e., Information Systems, Software Engineering)
  • 5-8 years of experience
  • Clearance:TS/SCI w/ Poly
  • Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills to provide effective and courteous support to end-users
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential for effective troubleshooting with customers at different levels within the organization
  • Ability to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner is crucial
  • Proven problem-solving skills to identify issues, analyze data, and make informed decisions
  • Experience with JIRA ticketing process and reporting capabilities or similar service desk software

Responsibilities

  • BigBear.ai is seeking a Service Desk Analyst to resolve technical issues and provide prompt solutions to ensure smooth operations and customer satisfaction
  • This position supports a high visibility project for a data analytics team on-site at a customer facility
  • Respond to incoming requests, inquiries, and technical issues from end-users through various channels (i.e
  • phone calls, instant messaging, Jira ticketing system)
  • Provide clear, friendly and effective communication to assist users to resolve their issues
  • Troubleshoot end-user issues by diagnosing the root cause and providing an appropriate solution
  • Escalate issues to higher-level support, if necessary
  • Record and track incidents and service requests using the Jira ticketing system
  • Ensure that issues are properly documented, categorized, prioritized and resolved within defined Service Level Agreements (SLA)
  • Maintain a strong understanding of the organization’s infrastructure, systems, applications and processes to be able to troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
  • Remain up-to-date with technology trends and advancements to contribute to process improvement
  • Documentation and Knowledge Base
  • Create and maintain knowledge base articles, documentation, and standard operating procedures to facilitate faster issue resolution and sharing best practices with the team
  • Work closely with other team members, such as system administrators and application developers, to address complex issues

Full Description

Overview

BigBear.ai is seeking a Service Desk Analyst to resolve technical issues and provide prompt solutions to ensure smooth operations and customer satisfaction.

This position supports a high visibility project for a data analytics team on-site at a customer facility.

What You Will Do

• Respond to incoming requests, inquiries, and technical issues from end-users through various channels (i.e. phone calls, instant messaging, Jira ticketing system)

• Provide clear, friendly and effective communication to assist users to resolve their issues

• Troubleshoot end-user issues by diagnosing the root cause and providing an appropriate solution

• Escalate issues to higher-level support, if necessary

• Record and track incidents and service requests using the Jira ticketing system

• Ensure that issues are properly documented, categorized, prioritized and resolved within defined Service Level Agreements (SLA)

• Maintain a strong understanding of the organization’s infrastructure, systems, applications and processes to be able to troubleshoot issues in a timely manner

• Remain up-to-date with technology trends and advancements to contribute to process improvement

• Documentation and Knowledge Base

• Create and maintain knowledge base articles, documentation, and standard operating procedures to facilitate faster issue resolution and sharing best practices with the team

• Work closely with other team members, such as system administrators and application developers, to address complex issues

What You Need To Have

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (i.e., Information Systems, Software Engineering)

• 5-8 years of experience

• Clearance:TS/SCI w/ Poly

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills to provide effective and courteous support to end-users

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential for effective troubleshooting with customers at different levels within the organization

• Ability to communicate technical information in a clear and understandable manner is crucial

• Proven problem-solving skills to identify issues, analyze data, and make informed decisions

• Experience with JIRA ticketing process and reporting capabilities or similar service desk software

What We'd Like You To Have

• Basic understanding of business intelligence suites (Tableau, PowerBI, COGNOS, etc.) desired

• Basic understanding of relational databases desired

• Basic understanding of reporting/analysis tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Jupyter Notebooks, Python, R) desired

About BigBear.ai

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

BigBear.ai is an Equal opportunity employer all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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