Maven Exploitation Specialist/ Data Scientist (Expert)

BTS Software Solutions; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Maven Exploitation Specialist/Data Scientist Expert to support Department of Defense IC missions in Springfield, VA. This role involves maintaining data architecture and implementing data standards across systems.

Candidates should have extensive experience with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures, along with proficiency in programming languages like Python or Java. The salary range for this position is $210,000 to $230,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures.
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical concepts.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Create data infrastructure for emergent sensors including tables and schemas.
• Ensure sensor data adheres to government data schemas and formats.
• Develop and maintain large-scale data processing systems.
• Clean and transform data to create geospatial data pipelines.
• Support data activities in compliance with NGA governance policies.

Skills

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Cloud architectures

API utilization

Python

JavaScript

Java

Data governance

Data processing systems

Education

4+ years experience in SQL or NoSQL databases

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

+++ This opportunity is for an upcoming award expected in July 2026++++

BTS Software Solutions is seeking Maven Exploitation Specialist / Data Scientist Experts to support Department of Defense IC missions at Springfield, VA.

The Maven Exploitation Specialist / Data Scientist Experts will support the maintenance and implementation of the data architecture for all Program data. This position requires experience with databases, cloud architectures, and compliance with data standards. This position is responsible for maintaining data backend workflows that allow for data operations across security domains and across systems.

Primary Location: Springfield, VA

Secondary Locations: St. Louis, Missouri

Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI, must be willing to take a CI Poly in the future

What You'll Get to Do

Job Duties

• Create necessary infrastructure to store and process data related to emergent sensors and platforms including creation of any database tables and schemas, establishing data health alerts, and setting up data pipelines to support ETL of all data related to the emergent sensors. Develop workflows to enable API-based movement of data related to the emergent sensors between platforms.
• Ensure all emergent sensor data adheres to government directed data schemas, formats, and governance requirements.
• Develop, construct, test, and maintain databases and large-scale, complex data processing systems.
• Clean, prepare, and transform QM data to support building of geospatial data pipelines that create a curated view of the content for IC consumption.
• Apply knowledge of scripting tools, programming languages, standards, and software packages to build the data pipelines that enable the consumption of data supporting QM's mission needs.
• Support data analytics, data cleansing, analyst workflow efficiencies, and transformation supporting ETL capabilities.
• Ensure all data activities conform to NGA Maven's data governance policies to include data lifecycle, data structure/schema definitions, data formats (JSON, parquet, XML, CSV, etc.), and access controls.
• Exhibit proficiency in working with cloud architectures, maintaining SQL and NoSQL databases, programming APIs, and data version control management.
• Support cross-domain solutions using NGA enterprise tooling.
• Manage the generation, approval, and population of data into databases, ensuring that all data complies with security regulations and satisfies customer requirements.

Education/Experience

• 4+ years of experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and cloud architectures.
• Experience leveraging APIs to query systems and migrate data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Java.
• Experience developing, sustaining, and monitoring operational data pipelines supporting multiple data formats and interfaces.
• Conduct regular QC and monitor the content to ensure it aligns to existing data standards and requirement specifications.
• Assess and report the current state of compliance of data holdings in both written and oral forms.
• Populate, manage, and maintain metadata standards for datasets.
• Monitor data and standards changes and adjust data architecture to remain in compliance.
• Support the use/development of cloud computing systems and perform automated analytics.
• Maintain data availability, accuracy, consistency, and reliability for all training data operations.
• Configure and monitor data health alerts to ensure training data operations are optimized and accessible.
• Create and maintain government directed and approved software and computing environments to enable data preprocessing work, such as creating NPEs to enable connections to external systems, setting up software environments to enable development activities, and establishing appropriate GitLab repositories.
• Support data pipeline setup and maintenance for data preprocessing activities across all security domains.

Desired Skills

• Experience working with NGA IT enterprise solutions (e.g., NGA CORE, NGA MLOps), Government Authority to Operate (ATO) processes, and Government Non-Person Entity (NPE) certificates.
• Experience implementing processes, standards, and tools within an organization based on the Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise.
• Experience developing dynamic visualizations to monitor availability, currency and volumetrics of operational data pipelines.

Pay Range

$210,000-$230,000

BTS Software Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.