Exploitation Specialist / Data Manager

Avalore•Springfield, VA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is contingent upon award. Avalore, LLC is seeking an Exploitation Specialist / Data Manager, Senior to support Department of War (DoW) customers in Springfield, VA. The Exploitation Specialist / Data Manager, Senior will provide technical and managerial leadership to maintain overhead satellite imagery preprocessing operations. The Data Manager shall provide technical recommendations and monitor and support the implementation for the data operations pipeline to include integration among the data acquisition, data preprocessing, and data management platform. The Data Manager serves as the Government's main communication interface to the larger team to relay tasks and requirements and ensure successful work execution. Additional activities include: Oversee and manage the data, databases, and pipelines related to NGA Maven's overhead satellite data acquisition, curation, and preprocessing, ensuring that they are compliant with specified requirements and priorities. Conduct regular Quality Control (QC), managing, and monitoring of data to ensure it aligns to existing data standards and specifications. Identify non-compliant datasets in relation to adherence to data schemas and standards, to include metadata completeness, accuracy, and consistency. Assess and report data holdings compliance status through written documentation and oral presentations. Apply engineering best practices to optimize data pipeline efficiency and performance across all sensor modalities (e.g., EO, FMV, HMI, SAR). Lead and manage other contractor data operations members by providing technical expertise and project management guidance for data creation and management initiatives. Ensure data dictionaries, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), and software comments and documentation are regularly maintained and updated. Manage the data operations pipeline to include imagery acquisition and ingest, imagery preprocessing and transformations, and bi-directional data movement between platforms to enable successful data transfer, storage, and manipulation according to requirements.

Requirements

TS/SCI with CI Poly Eligibility
3+ years of people management experience (e.g., team lead, project lead) and excellent communication and keen problem-solving skills.
Extensive technical project management experience, independently initiating and driving projects to completion, and experience solving strategic problems
4+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis, developing visualizations, and processing complex data to create data-driven insights. This should include experience with data manipulation, extract, transform, load (ETL) procedures, and a working knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).
Demonstrated experience managing databases and data pipelines.
Experience working with cloud architectures.
2+ years of experience working with large, complex geospatial data files and formats.

Nice To Haves

Experience using Agile/SAFe methodologies
Experience with NGA enterprise technology systems, such as NGA CORE and MLOps
GEOINT Professional Certification - Fundamentals (F)
Experience working with AI/ML technologies applied to geospatial data

Responsibilities

Oversee and manage the data, databases, and pipelines related to NGA Maven's overhead satellite data acquisition, curation, and preprocessing, ensuring that they are compliant with specified requirements and priorities
Conduct regular Quality Control (QC), managing, and monitoring of data to ensure it aligns to existing data standards and specifications
Identify non-compliant datasets in relation to adherence to data schemas and standards, to include metadata completeness, accuracy, and consistency
Assess and report data holdings compliance status through written documentation and oral presentations
Apply engineering best practices to optimize data pipeline efficiency and performance across all sensor modalities (e.g., EO, FMV, HMI, SAR)
Lead and manage other contractor data operations members by providing technical expertise and project management guidance for data creation and management initiatives
Ensure data dictionaries, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), and software comments and documentation are regularly maintained and updated
Manage the data operations pipeline to include imagery acquisition and ingest, imagery preprocessing and transformations, and bi-directional data movement between platforms to enable successful data transfer, storage, and manipulation according to requirements