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# Splunk Dashboard Developer

- **Company:** Vanguard
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $160,001.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Collaborative Software, Query Languages, Information Technology Operations, Operational Data Store, Power BI, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Splunk, Custom Reports, Servicenow
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/72bd9f68-bacc-40d8-aa09-84b53f15cbca

## About the Role

* Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
 * Strong experience with Splunk dashboard development and SPL query language.
 * Proven ability to design and optimize Splunk dashboards for large, complex datasets.
 * Experience translating operational requirements into actionable visualizations.
 * Familiarity with collaborative tools for sharing dashboards across teams.
 * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Required Clearance:

 * ship.
 * Active secret clearance with the ability to obtain top secret.

Preferred:

 * Experience in a government environment.
 * Familiarity with IT-related (specifically network) data and metrics.
 * Familiarity with IT operations, monitoring, or ticketing platforms such as ServiceNow.
 * Ability to use APIs to pull data from Splunk for custom reporting or integrations.
 * Some Power BI experience for cases where Splunk dashboards may not meet all visualization needs.
 * Security clearance or ability to obtain one.

## Description

Vanguard is seeking a skilled Splunk Dashboard Developer to design, develop, and maintain dashboards that provide actionable insights from Department-level operational data. The developer will work closely with NT leadership and operators to translate mission requirements into real-time, scalable, and visually intuitive dashboards., * Develop and maintain dashboards natively within Splunk using SPL (Search Processing Language) and Dashboard Studio / Simple XML.

 * Optimize dashboards for performance, scalability, and usability with large data sets.
 * Collaborate with NT leadership, engineers, operators, and stakeholders to ensure dashboards meet operational and mission requirements.
 * Assist in data modeling, reporting, and access control configuration for secure and effective information sharing.
 * Support documentation and training for dashboard users.


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