Data Manager - Senior
- Salary
- $160,000 - $190,000
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
What Impact You'll Have
GRVTY is seeking a motivated and experienced Data Manager to provide technical and managerial leadership over our overhead satellite imagery preprocessing operations. The ideal candidate is an experienced data operations leader with a passion for solving complex pipeline challenges, ensuring data integrity, and delivering mission-critical results in support of the DoW and Intelligence Community. This role serves as the primary communication interface between the customer and the team, translating requirements into successful execution across the full data operations lifecycle.
What You'll be Owning
- Oversee and manage data, databases, and pipelines across the full data acquisition, curation, and preprocessing lifecycle, ensuring compliance with specified requirements and priorities
- Conduct regular Quality Control (QC) of data holdings to:
- Manage the data operations pipeline to include:
- Apply engineering best practices to optimize data pipeline efficiency and performance across all sensor modalities including: EO, FMV, HMI, and SAR
- Lead and manage team members by providing:
- Ensure data dictionaries, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), software comments, and documentation are regularly maintained and updated
- Serve as the primary customer communication interface to relay tasks and requirements and ensure successful work execution
What You Must Have
- Active TS/SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain a CI/Poly
- People management experience, including:
- Team lead or project lead roles
- Independently initiating and driving projects to completion
- Strategic problem solver with excellent communication skills
- Experience in quantitative analysis and data operations, to include:
- Developing visualizations and processing complex data to create data-driven insights
- Data manipulation and ETL procedures
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Demonstrated experience managing databases and data pipelines
- Experience working with cloud architectures
- Experience working with large, complex geospatial data files and formats
What Would be Nice to Have
- 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: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.
- The pay range for this position is: $160,000 - $190,000
Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications.
We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.
Virginia Pay Range
$160,000—$190,000 USD
Why Choose GRVTY
GRVTY's standard text
The toughest national security challenges demand vision and ingenuity, not just resources. We deliver mission and technical expertise to outpace our adversaries. We’re purpose-built to tackle the most entrenched, systemic national security issues around the world.
We partner with our customers to help them overcome challenges in every corner of technology and defense—including the ones still being explored. Our growing capabilities create complementary advantages, giving on-the-ground operations the edge they need to succeed. We muster everything we have to answer every challenge presented, every day of our lives.
At GRVTY, we believe that when our employees thrive, our company thrives. That’s why we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.
- Robust health plan including medical, dental, and vision
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- Annual Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- 401k with generous company match
- Training and Development Opportunities
- Award Programs
- Variety of Company Sponsored Events
GRVTY's standard text
EEO Statement
GRVTY, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email recruiting@grvty.com or call 703-544-7930 with requested details. A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days.
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Please review our current job openings and apply for the positions you believe may be a fit. If you are not an immediate fit, we will also keep your resume in our database for future opportunities.
What this role asks for
70% of this description is written for the role. The rest is GRVTY's standard text, folded away below.
Read against GRVTY's other open postings on this site.
The team: Space Intelligence HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 24 open in Space Intelligence. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in January: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (15 of 24), Machine Learning (9 of 24), CI/CD (6 of 24), SQL (6 of 24), ETL (5 of 24), GitLab (5 of 24), NumPy (5 of 24)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Data Scientist - Mid (Sensor Technician) posted Oct 6
- Data Scientist - Senior posted Sep 25
- Senior Data Scientist posted Sep 23
- AI/ML Engineer, Senior posted Sep 22
- Geospatial Data Manager posted Sep 15
- Sr. System Administrator posted Sep 15
- Expert ML Software Engineer posted Aug 17
- Senior Data Scientist posted Jul 28
- Data Scientist - Mid posted Jul 27
- Lead LAN/WAN Engineer posted Jul 22
- Senior VDI Engineer posted Jul 21
- Senior VDI Engineer posted Jul 21
- DevOps Engineer posted Jul 14
- DevOps Engineer posted Jul 14
- Software Engineer, Senior posted Jul 6
- Data Scientist - Senior posted Jun 29
- Data Analyst - Mid posted Jun 29
- Solutions Architect posted Jun 29
- Data Scientist - Senior posted Jun 29
- Data Scientist - Expert posted Jun 29
- Data Scientist – Mid posted May 12
- Software Engineer (Full Stack) - SME posted Mar 26
- Systems Administrator posted Jan 23
From the team and dates on GRVTY's own job board.
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