Data Manager

ANALYGENCE; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tharros is seeking a Data Manager to support Mission Assurance data collection, governance, and analytic exploitation using Palantir Foundry within a DoD environment.

The role involves building data workflows, dashboards, and models, coordinating with mission analysts and government teams, and ensuring data quality and traceability across assessment lifecycles. Travel to Air Force installations may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Active TS, with SCI eligibility.
• 3–10 years of professional experience.
• Palantir Foundry Data Engineer Certification.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar enterprise data platforms for data workflows, models, and analytical pipelines.
• Experience collecting, structuring, governing, and managing operational or analytical data in a DoD environment.
• Experience aggregating, normalizing, integrating, and synthesizing data from multiple sources.
• Experience applying data quality controls, version management, and governance practices for reliable data products.
• Familiarity with data modeling, ontologies, and analytical workflow design.
• Strong written and verbal communication, documenting data workflows for government stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to Air Force installations and other government locations.

Responsibilities

• Support Mission Assurance assessment activities through structured data collection and data management.
• Collect and manage data from DoD assessments, surveys, on-site assessments, and stakeholder reports.
• Coordinate with analysts and government teams to ensure data is complete, traceable, and analysis-ready.
• Develop, sustain, and improve data workflows, dashboards, and analytical models in Palantir Foundry and other platforms.
• Configure Palantir Foundry capabilities to enable data analysis, reporting, automation, and coordination.
• Aggregate, normalize, and analyze data to identify trends and cross-mission risk drivers.
• Integrate assessment data with mission mapping and critical capability data.
• Maintain data stewardship, governance, standards, quality controls, and version management.
• Refine data architecture and workflows for coherence, scalability, and decision support.
• Provide training and collaboration support using tools like Platform One, Mattermost, Jira, and Confluence.

Skills

Palantir Foundry data workflows

Data governance

Analytical pipelines

DoD environment data handling

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Government data platforms

Job description

Tharros is actively pursuing an opportunity to support the Air Force Mission Assurance Construct Support (MACS) program, providing mission analysis, base assessment support, and data platform management services that strengthen the Air Force's Mission Assurance Construct.

Tharros is seeking an experienced Data Manager to provide assessment process support, data collection, and analytical exploitation of Mission Assurance assessment data. This position operates at the intersection of assessment execution and data engineering, using Palantir Foundry to collect, structure, govern, and exploit Mission Assurance data across the full assessment lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Mission Assurance assessment activities through structured data collection, preparation, ingestion, and management of assessment data under Government direction.
• Collect, structure, and manage data from Department of War Mission Assurance Assessments, Pre-Site Surveys, on-site assessments, stakeholder reports, and related USAF augmentation activities.
• Coordinate with Mission Analysts, Mission Support Specialists, Government assessment teams, and stakeholders to ensure assessment data is complete, consistent, traceable, and suitable for downstream analysis.
• Implement, sustain, and improve Mission Assurance data workflows, analytical models, dashboards, monitoring views, and decision-support products within Palantir Foundry and other Government-directed enterprise data platforms.
• Configure and use Palantir Foundry capabilities to enable Mission Assurance data analysis, reporting, automation, project coordination, and sustainment of enterprise-ready data products.
• Aggregate, normalize, integrate, and analyze Mission Assurance data to identify trends, systemic vulnerabilities, recurring dependencies, cross-mission risk drivers, and enterprise-level patterns.
• Integrate assessment data with mission mapping, critical capability data, TCA identification, criticality analysis, and related Joint, Service, infrastructure, cyber, resilience, and operational assessment sources.
• Maintain data stewardship and governance practices, including data standards, definitions, quality controls, version management, change coordination, controlled sharing, and documentation of data models and workflows.
• Assess and refine Mission Assurance data architecture, data models, ontologies, analytical frameworks, and workflows to improve coherence, scalability, usability, analytical rigor, and decision support.
• Support technical coordination, training, user support, knowledge transfer, and collaboration using Government-directed tools such as Platform One, Mattermost, Jira, and Confluence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Active TS, with SCI eligibility.
• 3-10 years of professional experience in any career field, discipline, or industry.
• Ability to perform functional duties independently in a fast-paced, Government support environment.
• Palantir Foundry Data Engineer Certification.
• Demonstrated experience using Palantir Foundry or comparable enterprise data platforms to build, manage, and sustain data workflows, models, and analytical pipelines.
• Experience collecting, structuring, governing, and managing operational or analytical data in a Department of Defense environment.
• Experience aggregating, normalizing, integrating, and synthesizing structured and unstructured data across multiple sources.
• Experience applying data quality controls, version management, and governance practices to ensure reliable, traceable data products.
• Familiarity with data architecture concepts, including data modeling, ontologies, and analytical workflow design.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document data workflows, methods, and technical findings for Government stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to Air Force installations and other Government locations in support of assessment activities and stakeholder coordination.