Mission-Critical Data Manager

Herndon Solutions Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Herndon Solutions Group seeks a Data Manager to organize, govern, acquire, standardize, and deliver data used in mission-focused analysis. You will manage PAI/CAI, client data, and internal datasets, ensuring accuracy, traceability, accessibility, and readiness for use across teams of analysts, engineers, and vendors.

You will translate mission needs into practical data requirements, coordinate data acquisition and licensing, improve data quality, and enable analytics/AI workflows with

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI access.
• Associate’s degree in CS/IS/Data Science/GIS/Engineering/Intelligence studies or related field.
• Experience managing data, data operations, data acquisition, data governance, or analytics-enablement activities in complex environments.
• Experience coordinating across analysts, engineers, stakeholders, procurement or contracting personnel, and external vendors.
• Experience defining data-quality, metadata, lineage, standardization, cataloging, access, retention, or lifecycle-management practices.
• Experience with heterogeneous structured and unstructured datasets and preparation for analysis or AI/ML use.
• Experience monitoring data ingestion or delivery workflows and coordinating issue resolution.
• Working knowledge of Python and SQL and familiarity with Windows and Linux/UNIX environments.
• Ability to develop clear documentation, status reporting, and executive-ready communications for Government clients.
• Ability to work effectively in an Agile or iterative delivery environment and manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and backlogs.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of PAI, CAI, client-provided, and internally produced datasets across Government missions.
• Coordinate with analysts, data engineers, contracting personnel, client representatives, and vendors to translate needs into data requirements, acquisition actions, licensing, delivery schedules, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a current inventory of data sources, owners, licenses, access restrictions, refresh frequencies, lineage, quality status, and authorized uses.
• Assess candidate data sources and vendor offerings for mission relevance, coverage, quality, interoperability, licensing, and lifecycle cost.
• Monitor vendor agreements, subscriptions, and data-delivery commitments; identify renewal or performance risks and escalate issues.
• Establish repeatable data intake, validation, metadata, cataloging, version-control, retention, and disposition practices.
• Partner with data engineers to plan ingestion, transformation, indexing, and delivery pipelines; support troubleshooting of data flows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data governance

Data acquisition

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Documentation

Education

Associate’s degree in CS/IS/Data Science/GIS/Engineering/Intelligence studies

Job description

Herndon Solutions Group seeks a Data Manager to organize, govern, acquire, standardize, and deliver data used in mission-focused analysis. You will manage PAI/CAI, client data, and internal datasets, ensuring accuracy, traceability, accessibility, and readiness for use across teams of analysts, engineers, and vendors.

You will translate mission needs into practical data requirements, coordinate data acquisition and licensing, improve data quality, and enable analytics/AI workflows with