Senior Data Operations Lead

New Posted:
June 25, 2026

The Senior Data Operations Lead provides the essential operating discipline, workflow synchronization, and execution oversight required to sustain daily Headquarters Air Force (HAF) Strategic Data Initiatives. Operating directly at the HAF staff level, this role integrates efforts across Government stakeholders, mission partners, action officers, and technical personnel to ensure seamless execution of data governance, data maturity modeling, and digital transformation mandates.

By maintaining clear workflow visibility, preparing elite executive staff products, tracking operational actions, and monitoring capability investments, this position enables senior leadership to maintain decision advantage across the extended Intelligence Community (IC) enterprise.

• Work Location:
  
  [Hybrid
  - Colorado Denver/Colorado Springs or National Capital Region (NCR)]
• Security Clearance: [TS/SCI]
• Travel Requirements: [TDY’s as required by the Government]

Karthik Consulting is committed to providing competitive compensation based on the responsibilities of the role, required qualifications, security clearance level, relevant experience, certifications, customer requirements, geographic location, and overall business needs. The salary range listed for this position represents a good-faith estimate of the current compensation range for this role.

At Karthik Consulting, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range. Final compensation decisions are based on the facts and circumstances of each candidate’s experience, qualifications, certifications, clearance level, contract requirements, and overall alignment with the role.

A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is$140,000 to $160,000 annually
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Employees may be eligible for company benefits and additional compensation programs, subject to company policy, contract requirements, and individual eligibility.

This role supports the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Digital Infrastructure Transformation. The mission focuses on modernizing, designing, and sustaining an integrated digital environment that transitions from historical hardware-based industrial constraints to software-defined digital processes. This modern enterprise architecture interconnects physical and virtual technologies across Data and Analytics, Sense-Making, Automation, Augmentation, and Artificial Intelligence (AAA), Hybrid/Multi-Cloud environments, Networks, and Zero Trust security frameworks to safely deliver intelligence to warfighters at the speed of relevance.

The role operates within the operational oversight of the AF IC Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Data Officer (CDO), IT Risk Management Framework Authorizing Official (AO), and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The work spans the entire spectrum of Air Force ISR Information Environment operations, encompassing strategic management, policy and instruction updates, capability portfolio management, and data sharing governance across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS infrastructures.

• Lead operational synchronization efforts across Government stakeholders, cross-domain mission partners, HAF action officers, and technical delivery teams to drive execution discipline.
• Proactively organize, schedule, and facilitate productive stakeholder meetings, engineering groups, and synchronization forums to build consensus.
• Review and triage administrative taskers, coordinate technical or programmatic input with Offices of Primary Responsibility (OPR), and ensure comprehensive follow-through within strict deadlines.
• Prepare clear, concise executive briefings, memorandums, issue papers, and electronic Staff Summary Sheets (eSSS) tailored for senior leadership visibility.
• Document meeting decisions and track open programmatic action items to ensure timely and complete closure.

• Administer the formal AF IC Information Environment Data Governance…