Senior Data Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 15, 2026.
Summary
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Duties
The United States Space Force (USSF) at Randolph AFB, San Antonio, Texas is searching for a Senior Data Engineer, HQSF ETM/TMS (NH-1560-04, GS 14/15 equivalent).
Description:
The Enterprise Talent Management Office (ETM) seeks a senior Data Scientist/Data Engineer to build and sustain the data capabilities that inform Guardian talent management and senior leader decisions. In this role, you will develop and improve data models, pipelines, interfaces, and infrastructure; integrate diverse data sources; and deliver timely, reliable analytics for human capital policy, workforce planning, and talent operations. You will apply advanced data engineering, statistical analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, simulation, and decision-analysis methods to solve complex enterprise challenges.
As a technical subject matter expert, you will translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements and turn complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for Space Force decision-makers. You will lead data engineering and analytics initiatives; develop scalable data pipelines, models, dashboards, and interfaces; strengthen data quality, governance, and reliability; and prepare concise reports and briefings for senior, nontechnical audiences. If you have strong experience in programming, data architecture, statistical and predictive modeling, and leading technical projects, join ETM to help deliver a more data-driven approach to Guardian talent management.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a closely related discipline and has demonstrated success applying rigorous quantitative methods to complex organizational or mission problems.
Background and Experience:
- Developing and maintaining data pipelines, data models, databases, and data infrastructure.
- Using SQL and scripting or statistical-computing languages, such as Python or R, for data processing and analysis.
- Designing, training, validating, and evaluating artificial intelligence or machine-learning models.
- Performing statistical analysis, predictive modeling, simulation, optimization, or decision analysis.
- Establishing data governance, metadata, data-quality, testing, and monitoring practices.
- Leading technical projects or teams; managing competing priorities; and delivering results on schedule.
- Explaining complex technical findings through concise reports and briefings for senior, nontechnical audiences.
- Applying analytics to human capital, workforce planning, personnel, organizational performance, or related mission areas.
Education and Training:
- Mandatory Degree Requirement: A bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, or another field directly related to the position; or a qualifying combination of education and experience consistent with the applicable position qualification standard. At least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.
Key Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of computer science, data analytics, statistics, and mathematics.
- Knowledge of data modeling, database design and data storage concepts.
- Knowledge of data governance, metadata management and regulatory considerations for data use.
- Data engineering skills with demonstrated ability to lead teams in a senior or project lead role.
- Ability to design and deliver scalable data pipelines and data models that reflect reproducible and repeatable engineering processes.
- Programming skills and proficiency in data query languages and scripting for data processing.
- Skill in programming, training, and validating AI and ML models to synthesize disparate and messy data to meet mission requirements.
- Skill in implementing data quality, testing and monitoring practices for data production systems.
Requirements
Conditions of employment- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
- Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework”.
- May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assign.
- Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 63 days per year.
- PCS/Relocation maybe authorized. Incentive is not authorized.
- This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
The 1560 series has an individual occupational requirement that must be met and can be viewed here. In addition to the above requirements, you can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 4th section titled Professional and Scientific Positions
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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .
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How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:
Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:
- Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
- Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
- Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
- Job title
- Detailed duties and accomplishments
- Employer's name and address
- Supervisor's name and phone number
- Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
- Hours per week
- Salary, if applicable
- Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses
College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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