Mission Content Data Manager Security Clearance

Position: Mission Content Data Manager with Security Clearance
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- Description Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

The Intelligence Production Solutions Division (IPSD), part of the Decision Advantage Solutions Business Area, is seeking a Mission Content Data Manager for the Chinook program in Gaithersburg, MD. The Mission Content Data Manager is responsible for the creation, review and maintenance of target material databases (schemas) and makes changes to metadata to accurately reflect the targets’ function, description, critical elements, location, and naming convention per customer requests in accordance with customer Structured Observation Management (SOM).

The system utilizes ESRI products to manage storage, discovery, access, dissemination, and processing in a cloud environment. Position may be performed in the following locations below. Please note Gaithersburg, MD is the program’s primary work location.
* Gaithersburg, MD

* Alexandria, VA

* St. Louis, MO

* Tucson, AZ Clearance Level

Required:

Top Secret clearance with SCI required. Ability to successfully pass a Polygraph exam post hire.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Demonstrate a base of technical skills with data mining and working knowledge of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS).
* Maintain accounts for existing customers and creates user accounts for new customers.
* Troubleshoot problems with GOWK interface to support customer issues.
* Review, correct, update, maintain and publish project files to the GOWK service.
* Work extensively in ArcGIS Pro to facilitate GOWK service functionality.
* Service governance to enforce SOM standards and ensure the right users have access to the correct data layers.
* Tune service properties to ensure rapid load times.

Basic Qualifications:

* US citizenship is required per contract.
* Requires a BS degree and 4 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s with 2 - 6 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
* Top Secret clearance with SCI required. Ability to successfully pass a Polygraph exam post hire.
* Proficiency with ArcGIS Pro to create and manage GIS Web services, applications, and data.
* Experience managing Enterprise Databases (SDE) and deploying services to ArcGIS Server
* Familiarity with ArcGIS Service performance tuning (max record counts, time-outs, etc.)
* Familiarity with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards-based web services such as Web Map Service (WMS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Processing Service (WPS), and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS).

Preferred Qualifications:

* Strong proficiency in SQL (joins, subqueries, and spatial functions).
* Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities.
* Experience with Python (Arc Py/ESRI API for Python). #Chinook If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:
January 20, 2026 For U.S. Positions:
While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay Range:
Pay Range $87,100.00 - $ The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and…