Senior Data Manager

General information

Requisition #

R70145

Locations

USA-VA-Springfield

Posting Date

08/19/2026

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI

Remote Type

Onsite

Time Type

Full time

Description & Requirements

Elevate your career with MANTECH International Corporation! Join a dynamic team dedicated to national security through cutting-edge technology. Since 1968, MANTECH has led in delivering advanced solutions to government intelligence, the Department of Defense, and Federal Civilian sectors. Dive into innovation in Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, IT, Data Analytics and Software Development. Your journey to impactful work and rapid growth starts now-be extraordinary at MANTECH!

• This is for a future opportunity*

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.

The projected compensation range for this position is -. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. MANTECH's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

MANTECH considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with MANTECH, please email us at careers@mantech.com and provide your name and contact information.