Senior Data Operations Lead | CASPIAN/JCRS-D SME

Peraton; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Principal Data Operations Lead / CASPIAN JCRS-D SME to support DCDC with Defensive Cyberspace Operations and AI Cyber Security. Fort Meade, MD, is the location for this senior role, where you will guide data architecture, governance, and high-stakes analytics to strengthen national security.

You will lead cross-functional teams, design advanced data pipelines, and optimize performance while mentoring junior scientists and coordinating with mission partners across DoD networks.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with Ph.D.
• Must have minimum of 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading cross-functional Data Operations teams in high-tempo, mission-critical environments.
• Proven experience as primary technical decision-maker for a large-scale data enterprise with data architecture, infrastructure scaling, and operational pipelines.
• Authoritative CASPIAN Knowledge: verifiable expertise in CASPIAN architecture, schemas, integration nodes, and security constraints.
• JCRS-D Optimization & Innovation: hands-on proficiency in JCRS-D analytic workflows.
• System Integration: ability to engineer and deploy custom API integrations for JCRS-D platforms and DoD analytics systems.
• Data Acquisition, Standards, and Governance: define and enforce data acquisition standards and tagging, ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Performance Optimization (Output and Speed): low-latency, high-throughput data processing architectures.
• DoD 8570.01-M / 8140 certification compliance (e.g., IAT III or IASAE II/III).
• Active TS with ability to obtain SCI.
• US Citizenship Required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority for Data Acquisition, Standards, and Governance ensuring compliance with DCDC/ARCYBER standards.
• Design complex ETL/ELT pipelines using NiFi, Kafka, Spark to automate data ingestion from multiple sources.
• Innovate and implement JCRS-D optimization workflows.
• Address latency, throughput, compute and storage optimization, and troubleshoot bottlenecks.
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify operational trends.
• Collaborate with mission partners to translate requirements into analytic solutions.
• Document analytic workflows and methodologies for knowledge transfer.
• Mentor junior data scientists and provide technical guidance.

Skills

DataOps leadership

CASPIAN knowledge

JCRS-D expertise

APIs & data integration

ETL/ELT pipelines

Low-latency data processing

DoD 8570 compliance

TS/SCI clearance

US citizenship

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

BS/BA

MS/MA

Ph.D.

Tools

Apache NiFi

Kafka

Apache Spark

Job description

Peraton seeks a Principal Data Operations Lead / CASPIAN JCRS-D SME to support DCDC with Defensive Cyberspace Operations and AI Cyber Security. Fort Meade, MD, is the location for this senior role, where you will guide data architecture, governance, and high-stakes analytics to strengthen national security.

You will lead cross-functional teams, design advanced data pipelines, and optimize performance while mentoring junior scientists and coordinating with mission partners across DoD networks.