Manager, Data Management & Operations

CHAOS Industries•El Segundo, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is hiring a Manager of Data Management and Operations to lead the end-to-end data lifecycle as the company scales its sensing systems. The role spans data governance, data-platform coordination, and test operations—not analytics alone. The manager will lead data management and field data operations functions and partner closely with the Foundry engineering team to ensure the platform meets company needs. Success means teams use consistent definitions, analysts receive trustworthy datasets, test data is captured and made available quickly, and access to sensitive data is controlled and auditable without hindering execution. The role is full-time and on-site at CHAOS Industries’ El Segundo, California headquarters, with regular travel to test sites and other company locations. The manager may need to support critical test events and field operations outside standard business hours.

Requirements

8+ years of experience across data engineering, data platforms, data governance, analytics infrastructure, test data, or similarly complex technical environments, including significant team leadership.
1+ years of management experience, ideally including management of teams with non-exempt or contract employees.
Demonstrated ownership of production data pipelines from source ingestion through transformation, quality assurance, publication, and consumption.
Strong knowledge of ETL, data modeling, metadata, lineage, data quality, observability, and modern data engineering practices.
Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, including the ability to turn ambiguous needs into clear standards, systems, and operating processes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
Ability to work full-time on-site at the El Segundo, California headquarters and travel regularly to test sites and other company locations.
Willingness to support critical test events and field operations outside standard business hours when needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Palantir Foundry or a comparable enterprise data platform; deep Foundry experience is strongly preferred.
Radar or defense systems experience.
Experience planning or supporting test events and coordinating the operational logistics needed to reliably collect and transport data.
Experience designing permissions and access-control processes in environments with significant security, compliance, audit, or data-handling requirements.
Experience supporting data collection from physical systems, sensors, laboratories, manufacturing, or field testing.

Responsibilities

Establish company-wide governance for data definitions, ownership, quality, lineage, retention, and calculation change management.
Create authoritative, documented analytical datasets and shared definitions so teams can use consistent data and metrics.
Partner with Foundry engineering to align data ingestion, ETL, modeling, transformation, validation, and monitoring with stakeholder needs.
Own permissions management and partner with Security and Compliance on least-privilege access, auditability, retention, and sensitive-data handling controls.
Build repeatable processes for planning data capture at test events, including sensor data, metadata, truth data, labels, logging, storage, and validation.
Translate test objectives into clear data requirements and ensure collection systems are ready before testing begins.
Establish pre-test readiness and post-test reconciliation processes so required data is captured, validated, transferred, cataloged, and available for analysis.
Use test outcomes and data gaps to improve collection methods, retention strategy, data quality controls, and data architecture.
Build and manage teams responsible for data governance and field data operations, and establish an effective partnership with Foundry engineering.
Sustain data operations at CHAOS test sites, including contributing to test schedule strategy, extraction technology and logistics, and data labeling.
Create operating procedures, ownership, service levels, and metrics for pipeline reliability, test data capture, and data availability.
Partner with Foundry engineering to balance immediate test and program needs with long-term investments in scalable architecture, automation, and team capability.
Travel regularly to CHAOS test sites and other company locations and support critical test events and field operations outside standard business hours when needed.