Data Distribution Systems Engineer

About the role

The Data Distribution Systems Engineer supports the LANDMARK AOS program within the NRO’s Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED). Key responsibilities include advising on data distribution architectures, troubleshooting issues, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical liaison across Government, developers, and mission stakeholders.
• Advise senior Government and technical personnel on the design, evolution, and delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure data-distribution architectures.
• Maintain and evolve the enterprise data-distribution architecture, ensuring solutions optimize performance, cost, scalability, and operational resiliency.
• Support cloud transitions, enterprise integration efforts, or system migration activities, coordinating across multiple technical teams.
• Review and assess the impacts of proposed scope or requirements changes on future data-distribution architectures.
• Provide unbiased technical evaluations and guide cloud transition efforts.
• Develop and propose innovative architectural approaches that address ambiguous or emerging mission needs.
• Collaborate with internal and external development teams to ensure solutions meet mission, performance, and stakeholder requirements.
• Provide SETA advisory support to maintain and evolve the enterprise data-distribution architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years or more experience; Master's and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• Current and Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Strong understanding of enterprise-level distributed systems, data-flow architectures, and system-of-systems integration, including experience supporting or evaluating cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-prem environments.
• Working knowledge of customer enterprise architectures and operational environments, with experience collaborating across Government, SETA, FFRDC, and developer teams.
• Familiarity with operating systems, compute environments, and cloud platforms (e.g., Linux, Windows, AWS, Azure).
• Demonstrated ability to support cloud transitions, enterprise integration efforts, or system migration activities, including coordinating across multiple technical teams.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience contributing to iterative development or integration cycles.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior Government leadership.
• Strong collaboration, customer-service orientation, and ability to operate within cross-functional teams in a fast-paced acquisition environment.
• Proven ability to adapt to evolving priorities and respond proactively in a dynamic mission environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience to be substituted in lieu of degree.

Skills

• Enterprise-level distributed systems
• Data-flow architectures
• System-of-systems integration
• Cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-prem environments
• Customer enterprise architectures and operational environments
• Operating systems, compute environments, and cloud platforms
• Agile methodologies

Benefits

• Not specified

Pay

$160,001 - $200,000

Schedule

Full-Time

Benefits

• Not specified