Maven Exploitation Specialist​/Data Manager; Senior

Opportunity Overview

BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Senior Maven Exploitation Specialist/ Data Manager to support Department of Defense IC missions at Springfield, VA. This opportunity is for an upcoming award expected in July 2026.

Primary

Location:

Springfield, VA

Secondary Locations:
St. Louis, Missouri

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

• Oversee and manage data, databases, and pipelines related to NGA Maven's overhead satellite data acquisition, curation, and preprocessing, ensuring compliance with specified requirements and priorities.
• Conduct regular QC, manage, and monitor data to ensure it aligns with existing data standards and specifications.
• Identify non‑compliant datasets regarding data schemas and standards, including metadata completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Assess and report NGA Maven's data holdings compliance status through written documentation and oral presentations.
• Apply engineering best practices to optimize data pipeline efficiency and performance across all sensor modalities (e.g., EO, FMV, HMI, SAR).
• Lead and manage other GEOSPI contractor data operations members by providing technical expertise and project management guidance for data creation and management initiatives.
• Ensure data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams (ERD), and software comments and documentation are regularly maintained and updated.
• Manage the data operations pipeline to include imagery acquisition and ingest, imagery preprocessing and transformations, and bi‑directional data movement between platforms to enable successful data transfer, storage, and manipulation according to requirements.

• 3+ years of people management experience (e.g., team lead, project lead) and excellent communication and problem‑solving skills. Extensive technical project management experience, independently initiating and driving projects to completion, and experience solving strategic problems.
• 4+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis, developing visualizations, and processing complex data to create data‑driven insights.
  
  Experience with data manipulation, extract, transform, load (ETL) procedures, and a working knowledge of database technologies (SQL, No
  
  SQL). Demonstrated experience managing databases and data pipelines. Experience working with cloud architectures.
• 2+ years of experience working with large, complex geospatial data files and formats.

• Experience using Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Experience with NGA enterprise technology systems, such as NGA CORE and MLOps.
• GEOINT Professional Certification – Fundamentals (F).
• Experience working with AI/ML technologies applied to geospatial data.

Pay Range: $175,000 – $195,000. This is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation.

BTS Software Solutions is a Service‑Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business focused on transforming ideas into technology to serve people. We have roots in helping save soldiers’ lives through technology and bring that ethos to serving our community. We offer competitive health benefits, PTO, 401(k) matching, and other perks.

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.