MANTECH seeks a highly motivated, career and client-oriented Senior Data Manager to join our Data and AI Practice and support a client in Springfield, VA. This is an on-site position.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Provide technical and managerial leadership over the overhead satellite imagery (EO/SAR) preprocessing operations.
Act as the Government's primary communication interface to the team and manage other contractors to ensure tasks and requirements are successfully executed.
Oversee, monitor, and maintain the data operations pipeline—including data acquisition, ingestion, preprocessing, transformations, and bi-directional data movement between platforms.
Direct and lead contractor data operations team members, providing project management guidance and technical expertise for data creation and management initiatives.
Conduct regular QC and monitoring of data holdings to ensure compliance with specified requirements, data schemas, and standards.
Apply engineering best practices to maximize data pipeline efficiency and performance across multiple sensor modalities, such as EO, FMV, HMI, and SAR.
Ensure data dictionaries, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), and software source code comments/documentation are continuously maintained and updated.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Data Science, Data Engineering, or Geospatial analysis.
3+ years of people management experience along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Extensive technical project management experience with a proven track record of independently driving strategic projects to completion.
4+ years of experience performing quantitative analysis, creating visualizations, processing complex data, and managing extract, transform, load (ETL) procedures.
Working knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL), demonstrated experience managing databases/pipelines, and experience with cloud architectures.
2+ years of experience working directly with large, complex geospatial data files and formats.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working directly with the Department of Defense.
Experience collaborating with government leads and AI Task Forces to align AI policies across client organizations.
Demonstrated experience providing technical insights and implementation support for integrating data acquisition, preprocessing, and management platforms.
Clearance Requirements:
Must have a current/active TS/SCI
Physical Requirements:
Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
This role involves delivering presentations at client locations, primarily in Springfield, VA.
MANTECH is more than a technology company. We are a company dedicated to service, and we consider our work a part of the public trust. The people of MANTECH are privileged to work for the security of the United States, the welfare of our service members and veterans, the protection of our communities, and the cause of better health care.
We have served the nation for more than 57 years, and in that time we have continually changed and grown to provide the technology that government needs to meet new challenges. We seek people with the same strong ethic of service, creativity, energy, and dedication to serving our country.
We are comprised of more than 9,800 talented employees around the world. Nearly 40% of our employees are veterans. Many others come from the Intelligence Community, Homeland Security and federal civilian agencies. We understand our customers’ challenges because we know their world firsthand.
When Federal managers and military leaders face tough challenges in cyber, data collection & analysis, enterprise IT or systems and software engineering, they turn to MANTECH to get the job done right. These professionals trust MANTECH and stay with us for years because we understand their needs and tackle their most complex challenges head on. They know that reaching their goal is our ultimate objective.
