Senior Data Engineer - Springfield, Virginia; APOGEE

Senior Data Engineer - Springfield, Virginia (APOGEE)

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Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support INSCOM under the Army Persistent Overhead Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Exploitation Enterprise Support Services (APOGEE). The primary place of performance will be Springfield, Virginia
. If interested and meet ALL the required qualifications and active clearance level, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding and impactful opportunity.

• Anticipated Award Month:
  March 2026
• Anticipated Start Month:
  May 2026
• Period of Performance: 1 Base + 4 Option Years
• Location:
  
  Springfield, Virginia
• CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:
  Active TS/SCI (within the last 5 years)

About Us

Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.

Responsibilities

• The Data Engineer will design, implement, and operate data-driven approaches to client’s intelligence requirement.
• Design how data will be stored, accessed, used, integrated, and managed by different data regimes and digital systems as necessary/directed.
• Work with GEOINT analysts to determine, create, and populate optimal data architectures, structures, systems, process automation, and models to support customer intelligence requirements.
• Provide subject matter expertise on all facets of GEOINT, including related fields such as open-source GEOINT, data science/analysis, and imagery science, and facilitate the integration of emerging GEOINT capabilities (including all related functions) as required.
• Responsible for developing, adapting, and integrating algorithms, software tools, and tradecraft to satisfy customer requirements, as necessary/directed.

Education/Experience

Required qualifications/skills:

• MA or MS in Data Science, Data Analytics, Informatics, Statistics, or related field AND 5 years CURRENT Intelligence Analysis experience; OR
• BA or BS in Data Science, Data Analytics, Informatics, Statistics, or related field AND 10 years CURRENT Intelligence Analysis experience; OR
• HS diploma/GED AND Specialized Training with at least 15 years of Intelligence Analysis experience to include 10 years of CURRENT GEOINT Analysis experience AND 5 years of Data Analytics, Informatics, Statistics experience

Qualifications

• Excellent written & oral communication, research, and analytic skills
• Expert ability to manage personnel, requirements, and coordination of projects
• Expert capabilities to research, create, develop, and deliver professional briefings, multimedia presentations, and written reports
• Experience utilizing programming languages such as SAS, R, Java, C, MATLAB, Sca La, or Python; experience accelerating large data transactions across industry-leading GPU architectures to answer analytic questions
• Experience with assessments, enterprise data integration, governance, and metrics, including the application of metadata management techniques and ability to interrogate databases efficiently using SQL
• Experience with tradecraft and publication; ability to coordinate and support cross-community meetings and working groups; assimilate large volumes of information, and independently produce reports using data science focused libraries such as Pandas, Scikit, Tensor Flow and Gensim to answer analytical questions
• Current/active TS/SCI clearance

Desired Qualifications/Skills

• Knowledge of Army structure and defense level intelligence operations: intelligence collection, fusion, analysis, production, and dissemination for intelligence databases and products
• Knowledge and experience with intelligence operations and in assisting with drafting expert assessments across operations priorities on behalf of the stakeholder
• Specialized training from any intelligence collection and analysis school or certification to include GEOINT Professional Certification (GPC-F,
  -II,
  -II,
  -II, etc.)
• Knowledge and understanding of the National System for GEOINT (NSG) and Intelligence Community; knowledge of private sector data science/analytics, machine learning, and data visualization communities.

Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.