Geospatial Mission Operations Lead

Vantor (Maxar Intelligence)

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 102,000 - 150,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Geospatial Mission Support Manager to join our DHS team in the Washington, DC area. This onsite role supports mission configuration, analytic review, user support, reporting, and coordination across software engineers and data scientists in a high-throughput data pipeline.

The position requires US citizenship and an active Secret clearance or DHS suitability, with a focus on coordinating with partners, defining workflows, and delivering timely intelligence products to mission

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field.
U.S. citizen with current Secret clearance and/or DHS suitability.
Ability to interpret imagery and analytic outputs, communicate uncertainty and data limitations.
Ability to coordinate effectively with customer users, technical teams, and service operations while tracking actions to completion.
Strong written, verbal, documentation, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

Coordinate user onboarding, site activation, and configuration of agreed mission workflows.
Define and maintain area-of-interest boundaries, imagery quality criteria, object classes, change categories, alert thresholds, and reporting requirements.
Monitor collection and tasking status for the two active sites; coordinate feasibility questions, priority changes, and service issues with Vantor operations teams.
Review Site Sentry alerts and analytic outputs, document relevant context and limitations, and help USSS assess potential false positives or unresolved changes.
Prepare or support recurring and event-driven reports that summarize collection status, detected changes, object alerts, and analyst observations.
Help users apply Operational Terrain capabilities, including 3D visualization, viewshed, directional viewshed, and point-to-point line-of-sight workflows.
Coordinate technical information for authenticated web access, Approved Product List review, whitelisting, and approved delivery workflows.
Conduct monthly mission reviews and recommend adjustments to coverage, analytic settings, reporting, training, and user workflows.
Escalate requests that require software changes, custom APIs, new integrations, or engineering beyond the agreed configuration to the appropriate Vantor technical and program leads.