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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Manager - **Company:** Tharros Defense, Inc. - **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Confluence, JIRA, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Decision Support Systems, Document-Oriented Databases, Systems Integration, Unstructured Data, Workflow Management Systems, Enterprise Data Management, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9040741/data-manager ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in any field. * Active TS, with SCI elibility * 3-10 years of professional experience in any career field, discipline, or industry. * Ability to perform functional duties independently in a fast-paced, Government support environment. * Palantir Foundry Data Engineer Certification. * Demonstrated experience using Palantir Foundry or comparable enterprise data platforms to build, manage, and sustain data workflows, models, and analytical pipelines. * Experience collecting, structuring, governing, and managing operational or analytical data in a Department of Defense environment. * Experience aggregating, normalizing, integrating, and synthesizing structured and unstructured data across multiple sources. * Experience applying data quality controls, version management, and governance practices to ensure reliable, traceable data products. * Familiarity with data architecture concepts, including data modeling, ontologies, and analytical workflow design. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document data workflows, methods, and technical findings for Government stakeholders. * Ability to travel to Air Force installations and other Government locations in support of assessment activities and stakeholder coordination. ## Description * Support Mission Assurance assessment activities through structured data collection, preparation, ingestion, and management of assessment data under Government direction. * Collect, structure, and manage data from Department of War Mission Assurance Assessments, Pre-Site Surveys, on-site assessments, stakeholder reports, and related USAF augmentation activities. * Coordinate with Mission Analysts, Mission Support Specialists, Government assessment teams, and stakeholders to ensure assessment data is complete, consistent, traceable, and suitable for downstream analysis. * Implement, sustain, and improve Mission Assurance data workflows, analytical models, dashboards, monitoring views, and decision-support products within Palantir Foundry and other Government-directed enterprise data platforms. * Configure and use Palantir Foundry capabilities to enable Mission Assurance data analysis, reporting, automation, project coordination, and sustainment of enterprise-ready data products. * Aggregate, normalize, integrate, and analyze Mission Assurance data to identify trends, systemic vulnerabilities, recurring dependencies, cross-mission risk drivers, and enterprise-level patterns. * Integrate assessment data with mission mapping, critical capability data, TCA identification, criticality analysis, and related Joint, Service, infrastructure, cyber, resilience, and operational assessment sources. * Maintain data stewardship and governance practices, including data standards, definitions, quality controls, version management, change coordination, controlled sharing, and documentation of data models and workflows. * Assess and refine Mission Assurance data architecture, data models, ontologies, analytical frameworks, and workflows to improve coherence, scalability, usability, analytical rigor, and decision support. * Support technical coordination, training, user support, knowledge transfer, and collaboration using Government-directed tools such as Platform One, Mattermost, Jira, and Confluence. ## Related Videos - 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