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To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Citizen. This position requires an active U.S. Government security clearance, applicants who do not currently hold the required clearance will not be eligible for consideration. Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status.
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This position requires an active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the Secret and/or DHS Suitability level.
Vantor is currently seeking a Geospatial Mission Support Manager to join our DHS team. This role will be performed onsite in the Washington, DC area.
As a Vantor DHS team member, you will have the opportunity to closely support our mission partners, and your work will have a direct impact on mission configuration, analytic review, user support, reporting, and coordination in and around the United States. In this role, you'll work closely with other software engineers along with data scientists leveraging open-source tools and libraries to create and maintain a high-throughput, low latency data science pipeline.
We are a multi-faceted software development and data science team working to build and maintain a heuristic based analytical capability, along with other supporting software applications, in support of the Department of Homeland Secret Service organization.
Our diverse background of experience in mission support along with research and development serves as a catalyst to solve unique and challenging intelligence problems in support of detection officers and their on-going activities.
Prototyping and frequent, iterative feedback are core to our delivery approach, anchored by a need to ensure accuracy and timeliness in support of our customer’s mission.
Culture matters! The DHS team prides itself on its diversity, ability to communicate ideas without ego, and fostering each other’s growth through feedback and flexibility.
Responsibilities:
Coordinate user onboarding, site activation, and configuration of agreed mission workflows.
Work with mission partner to define and maintain area-of-interest boundaries, imagery quality criteria, object classes, change categories, alert thresholds, and reporting requirements.
Monitor collection and tasking status for the two active sites; coordinate feasibility questions, priority changes, and service issues with Vantor operations teams.
Review Site Sentry alerts and analytic outputs, document relevant context and limitations, and help USSS assess potential false positives or unresolved changes. Final operational judgments remain with authorized USSS personnel.
Prepare or support recurring and event-driven reports that summarize collection status, detected changes, object alerts, and analyst observations.
Help users apply Operational Terrain capabilities, including 3D visualization, viewshed, directional viewshed, and point-to-point line-of-sight workflows.
Coordinate technical information for authenticated web access, Approved Product List review, whitelisting, and approved delivery workflows. Support iTAK-compatible outputs where technically feasible and agreed.
Conduct monthly mission reviews and recommend adjustments to coverage, analytic settings, reporting, training, and user workflows.
Escalate requests that require software changes, custom APIs, new integrations, or engineering beyond the agreed configuration to…