Senior Data Engineering PM, War Data Platform

Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) War Data Platform is seeking a Data Engineering Project Manager in Arlington, VA to lead enterprise data engineering for warfighter analytics and AI systems. You will define the WDP data roadmap, oversee data ingestion, cross-domain movement, cataloging, API delivery, and migration from legacy systems to a modern cloud architecture, while balancing governance and security requirements.

Eligibility includes U.S.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Submission package may include e-portfolio, project samples, GitHub, etc.
• Three-year trial may be required if not previously completed a trial or probationary period.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Direct deposit participation required.
• Subject to pre-employment and random drug testing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior project manager for enterprise data engineering on the War Data Platform.
• Develop and maintain the WDP’s product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for data engineering capabilities.
• Define, prioritize, and manage the capability backlog; approve epics, user stories, technical specs, and acceptance criteria.
• Supervise the architecture, efficiency, and reliability of data movement across the enterprise analytics platform.
• Oversee data flows across security classification levels and cross-domain solutions.
• Review and approve solution designs for ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, storage, and data serving.
• Evaluate architectural patterns to balance performance, security, scalability, and TCO.
• Establish SLOs/KPIs; analyze outages and data quality issues; enforce monitoring and automated recovery.
• Collaborate with data science/AI teams to meet mission requirements for feature engineering and BI.
• Serve as the liaison between mission owners, cybersecurity, platform operations, and external providers/consumers.
• Prepare and present decision memoranda, briefings, and status reports to senior leadership.
• Develop and refine engineering standards and templates adopted across the enterprise.

Job description

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) War Data Platform is seeking a Data Engineering Project Manager in Arlington, VA to lead enterprise data engineering for warfighter analytics and AI systems. You will define the WDP data roadmap, oversee data ingestion, cross-domain movement, cataloging, API delivery, and migration from legacy systems to a modern cloud architecture, while balancing governance and security requirements.

Eligibility includes U.S.