GEOINT Standards Data Modeler - Expert/Lead 1996
Company: COMPASS
Location: Springfield
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Compass is looking for a motivated individual to provide
operational services to the Intelligence Community. Our goal is to
hire talented and passionate team members who desire to grow their
skillsets, as well as the reputation of the company with our
partners, clients, and stakeholders. We are looking for an
individual to join an innovative team supporting mission
critical/mission essential activities. Professional IT
certification training opportunities and assistance are available
through Compass. Position: GEOINT Standards Data Modeler – Expert
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI Location: Springfield, VA Overall
Assignment Description: The Lead Data Modeler serves as the Subject
Matter Expert and technical lead for the development, profiling,
and application of GEOINT data content standards. Organize, lead,
and monitor technical tasks and provide input to issue resolutions.
Lead engagement with the customer to collect requirements, organize
work priorities and manage project deliverables. Engage with
multiple team members, organizations, and disciplines to explore
complex concepts and processes and develop and coordinate candidate
solutions. This position is considered a key position and is listed
in the Statement of Work (SOW). The offer is contingent on approval
from the Government. General Responsibilities: Serve as a Subject
Matter Expert (SME) on development of GEOINT standards with the
objective of facilitating compliance and interoperability through
integration of NSG & ASG requirements while reducing technical and
schedule risk associated with Data, Metadata, and Ontology
standards. Ensure current and future GEOINT standards satisfy
capability requirements at the program and strategic level across
Agency, U.S. national organizations (NSG), and international
partners (ASG). Develop capability-based standards profiles and
reference architectures to enable search, discovery, access,
retrieval, integrated intelligence, and advanced analytics. Daily
Responsibilities include: Standards Development – develop new or
updated standards documents. Standards Content Development – work
with users to understand their requirements; develop solutions to
Content Development Requests (and identify and develop solutions
for internal modeling improvements; and monitor ISO, OGC, IC DES,
etc standards that are implemented and integrated & make updates
accordingly); implement solutions to result in updated content
baselines of standards. Maintain the software required to generate
content baselines (e.g., VBA, ShapeChange) and work with software
specialists when necessary to identify updates or changes.
Standards Content Profiles – work with users to understand their
requirements and implementations; help develop profiles and
implementation which may involve software maintenance or
configuration. Process Improvements and Documentation – identify
and implement process improvements (e.g., creating automated QA/QC
checks) and new technologies (e.g., new NAS JSON-Schema technical
artifact); maintain or develop documentation for both internal team
and users (e.g., SOPs, User Guides) Coordinate on the Web Presence
of the Standards; ensure successful deployments of content updates
(communicate on any impacts such as schema changes); communicate
any new requirements or requested improvements. Governance and
Program Support – Configuration management and professional
engagement with various participating organizations Community
Support/Outreach – conduct outreach activities to promulgate
standards use; answering user questions; supporting requests such
as questions on standards conformance and methodology applications.
Skills and Experience: Required: Have expert-level working
experience (10 years or more) in data modeling, data analytics
and/or data science field of work. Have a bachelor’s degree in
technical or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics,
Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer
Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or
related STEM degree program. Have at least five (5) years
demonstrated experience with: Basic concepts of Unified Modeling
Language (UML) Class Diagrams, object-based modeling concepts, and
logical data models. Design, development, presentation, and
analysis of a domain based logical data model. Developing,
maintaining and/or enhancing Logical Theories and formal Ontologies
to include Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology
Language (OWL). Decomposition of object-based logical models in
order to understand data requirements. Have familiarity with the
major varieties of JSON (JSON-LD, GeoJSON, JSON-B, etc.). Have
familiarity with Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).
Desired: Able to develop, describe & apply complex concepts &
processes. Perform multiple tasks at specialist level in a
leadership role. Lead and manage multiple Junior/Mid-level
personnel to achieve project objectives. Evaluate & recommend new
technology & processes based upon cost, risk, and mission. Able to
develop & use complex concepts & processes that span multiple
organizations and disciplines. Have expert-level working experience
in data modeling, data analytics and/or data science field of work.
Have at least five (5) years demonstrated experience with: Basic
concepts of Unified Modeling Language (UML) Class Diagrams,
object-based modeling concepts, and logical data models. Familiar
with XML, XML schema, and SQL. Design, development, presentation,
and analysis of a domain based logical data model. Decomposition of
object-based logical models in order to understand data
requirements. Develop, maintaining and/or enhancing Logical
Theories and formal Ontologies to include: Resource Description
Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL). Have familiarity
with the major varieties of JSON (JSON-LD, GeoJSON, JSON-B, etc.).
Have familiarity with Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
UML (class diagrams): OCL A plus GML, XML or XSD JSON, JSON-Schema
or similar (JSON-LD, GeoJSON) OWL, SKOS, and/or RDF Experienced
using data and system modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise
Architect MySQL MS Access Microsoft Visual Basic (VBA) programming
SQL Logical data modeling and/or data architecture experience;
experience with ontologies, taxonomies, vocabularies, thesauri a
plus Java experience is a plus but not required. Attention to
detail & organized. Eager to learn new technologies and skills.
Good verbal and written communication Familiar with software
development, database and cloud computing in the development and
application of models, databases, and ontologies.
Education/Certification: Required: Bachelor’s degree in technical
or scientific fields such as Engineering, Physics, Mathematics,
Operations Research, Engineering Management, Computer Science,
Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related
STEM degree program. Desired: Master’s degree plus 10 years of
experience, Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years’ experience,
Associate’s degree plus 14 years’ experience, or a minimum of 15
years’ experience, in relevant field. Specific position
qualifications can be applied in lieu of years of experience.
Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in
Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to
the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and
Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services
(A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to
our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense
and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile,
highly trained and extremely talented staff. Equal Opportunity
Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin. Veterans/Disabled
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