Geospatial Mission Support Lead

Vantor Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 102,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor Inc. in the Washington, DC area seeks a Geospatial Mission Support Manager to join our DHS team. You will support mission configuration, analytic review, user support, reporting, and coordination for a high-throughput data pipeline using open-source tools.

U.S. citizenship, active Secret clearance or DHS suitability, and a related Bachelor’s degree are required. On-site work five days a week is expected.

Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen.
• Current Secret security clearance and/or DHS suitability.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field (4 additional years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree. A Master's degree may count as an additional 2 years of experience.).
• 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.
• Ability to work at mission partner facility five days a week, subject to facility access

Responsibilities

• Coordinate user onboarding, site activation, and configuration of agreed mission workflows.
• Work with mission partner to 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. Final operational judgments remain with authorized USSS personnel.
• 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. Support iTAK-compatible outputs where technically feasible and agreed.
• 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.

Skills

US Citizenship

Active Security Clearance

Bachelor's degree in related field

Imaging analysis interpretation

Customer and team coordination

Communication and documentation

On-site work ability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Software Engineering or related

Tools

GIS platforms

3D terrain tools

Viewshed analysis

Job description

Vantor Inc. in the Washington, DC area seeks a Geospatial Mission Support Manager to join our DHS team. You will support mission configuration, analytic review, user support, reporting, and coordination for a high-throughput data pipeline using open-source tools.

U.S. citizenship, active Secret clearance or DHS suitability, and a related Bachelor’s degree are required. On-site work five days a week is expected.