Senior Data Manager

MANTECH•Springfield, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

MANTECH International Corporation is seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Manager to join their Data and AI Practice and support a client in Springfield, VA. This is an on-site position for a future opportunity. The role involves providing technical and managerial leadership over overhead satellite imagery (EO/SAR) preprocessing operations, acting as the primary communication interface to the government, and managing other contractors. The Senior Data Manager will oversee the entire data operations pipeline, including acquisition, ingestion, preprocessing, transformations, and data movement. They will also direct and lead contractor data operations team members, ensuring compliance with requirements, schemas, and standards, and applying engineering best practices to optimize data pipeline efficiency. Maintaining data dictionaries, ERDs, and software documentation is also a key responsibility.

Requirements

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.
Must have a current/active TS/SCI

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.