6385 - Data Specialist

• Administer and maintain program databases using appropriate database management systems to organize, protect, and store data.
• Ascertain user requirements; create database structures; and test, coordinate, and document database changes.
• Interact with development personnel, system owners, and end users to determine data-access requirements, transaction rates, volumes, and other information needed to develop and maintain integrated databases.
• Collect, import, profile, normalize, reconcile, and validate data from multiple Government, customer, billing, and telecommunications-provider sources.
• Develop data structures, data dictionaries, required fields, validation rules, status definitions, source-to-target mappings, and change-control procedures.
• Reconcile discrepancies involving service identifiers, agencies, locations, quantities, usage, billed amounts, features, equipment, contacts, and service status.
• Maintain traceability from master records to source data and supporting validation evidence.
• Create and manage discrepancy, exception, duplicate, unmatched-record, and customer-validation queues.
• Coordinate data validation and correction with federal customers, service providers, system owners, and technical personnel.
• Integrate order, installation, cutover, disconnect, and external status information into the transition database.
• Produce recurring, cumulative, customer-level, exception, aging, and management reports and dashboards.
• Implement controls for completeness, validity, accuracy, consistency, uniqueness, timeliness, and traceability.
• Protect controlled and nonpublic information and comply with applicable access, safeguarding, and records-management requirements., * Microsoft Excel, including advanced formulas, lookup functions, pivot tables, data validation, and Power Query
• Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational database platforms
• SQL for data extraction, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and reporting
• Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or comparable dashboard and visualization tools
• Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, and SharePoint
• Data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings, metadata management, and master-data-management practices
• ETL and data-quality tools or controlled scripting for repeatable data processing
• Configuration management, version control, change logging, and audit-trail practices
• Telecommunications inventory, billing, provisioning, and order-management systems
• Federal records-management, information-safeguarding, and role-based access requirements

Required Specialized Experience

• Establishment and administration of authoritative inventory or master-data repositories.
• Comparison and reconciliation of data from federal systems, vendor portals, spreadsheets, billing files, and customer-maintained sources.
• Familiarity with enterprise telecommunications inventory, billing, ordering, provisioning, or vendor-management platforms.
• Analysis of telecommunications service records, quantities, usage, billing, ownership, features, equipment, and managed-service components.
• Development of matching rules, duplicate detection, exception queues, discrepancy-resolution workflows, and data-quality metrics.
• Coordination of record validation with customers, system owners, service providers, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Integration of order, installation, cutover, discontinue, and operational-status information into an auditable database.
• Production of recurring, cumulative, customer-level, management, and exception reports from high-volume datasets.

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Database Management, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline required.
• Minimum 7 years of database administration, database development, data analysis, data quality, configuration management, or inventory-management experience required.
• Demonstrated experience reconciling high-volume records from multiple systems containing incomplete, inconsistent, or conflicting data.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and relational database skills.
• Strong analytical, research, documentation, and stakeholder-coordination abilities.
• Experience supporting federal, telecommunications, logistics, asset-management, billing, or enterprise IT datasets preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Microsoft, Oracle, SQL, Power BI, data-management, or comparable technical certification preferred.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to work remotely from an authorized location within CONUS are required. Periodic on-site support at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, may be required for government-furnished equipment support and other mission needs.
• Must be available and prepared to begin work at the anticipated contract start date of November 6, 2026.